Once again motivated representatives from the Professorship of Sports Equipment and Materials are on the road to inspire girls in secondary schools throughout Bavaria about STEM subjects. This was also the case recently at the state secondary school in Trostberg.
Two workshops were offered on research topics from the Professorship of Sports Equipment and Materials.
In the Sensor Technology in Medicine course, classic analogue and digital medical devices are first put to the test, tried out, dismantled and scrutinised. Then it's time to do it yourself. With the help of Arduinos, small devices are built. LEDs are alternately made to light up, various inputs and outputs are tested and finally a small pressure sensor is built.
In the second course, 3D printing in orthopedics technology, conventional methods in orthopedics are used first: Plaster casts with tread foam. Participants then move through the modern process chain, from 3D scanning to computer processing and 3D printing. The special highlight of this course is the girls’ own 3D-printed hand and footprints, which they can take home with them at the end of the day as small key rings.
A few other TUM projects also took part, including the geodesy team, the billiard hypothesis from mathematics, the lightweight construction team and a team from computer science.
You can find more information about the TUM-Explorer project here.