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The student excursion to Munich, organized in cooperation with the Institute for CMOS Design, will take place from May 26, 2026, to May 28, 2026. The program includes visits to Texas Instruments, Intel R&D Labs, Infineon, and Huawei, as well as to the Hyperloop demonstrator at the Technical University of Munich. For students, train tickets between Braunschweig and Munich, accommodations, as well as breakfast and lunch are included in the €60 participation fee. Further information can be found in the overview slides.
Registration for the study trip will take place on April 27, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. in the conference room of the Institute of Communications Engineering (Schleinitzstraße 22, Room 232B). Please bring the €60 participation fee in cash in order to register; spots will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Every year, the IfN offers (multi-day) field trips during the week after Pentecost, known at the Technical University of Braunschweig as “Field Trip Week.” These trips visit a variety of destinations. Here is a small selection of past destinations.
As part of Prof. Schmitz’s Electroacoustics course, an annual field trip is organized to Sennheiser and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB).
At Sennheiser, participants gain a detailed insight into the company’s history as well as its current structure and philosophy. The subsequent tour of the automated and manual production facilities offers a fascinating glimpse into the work carried out on-site. The visit concludes with a listening session featuring a prototype of the world’s most expensive headphones.
In the acoustic test chambers of the PTB’s Department of Applied Acoustics, experiments for measuring acoustic parameters will be demonstrated and explained. The excursion allows students to grasp the content presented in the lecture and place it in a practical context
For several years now, the Mobile Communications Group has been contributing to the standardization of WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) and WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) systems in the various working groups of IEEE 802.
In 2017 and 2015, students had the opportunity to spend a day attending the IEEE 802 Plenary Session in Berlin. As part of the IEEE University Outreach Program, the Braunschweig students spent a day gaining insight into how future standards are developed. After an introduction to how IEEE 802 operates, they were able to choose which Interest, Study, or Task Groups they wanted to explore.
Together with the Institute of High-Frequency Technology (IHF), the IfN organizes a popular student field trip to southern Germany every two to three years. The destinations vary regularly. Typically, the trip includes four stops, which are explored in greater detail over the course of several days.
Over the years, the group has visited, among others, Südwestrundfunk (SWR), LS telcom AG, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF), the InnovationLab, FS Deutsche Flugsicherung, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Rohde & Schwarz, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), Jenoptik AG, Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, the Healthcare Sector of Siemens AG, and other companies and research institutions.
The Southern Germany excursion offers a welcome change of pace and deeper insight into practical applications and research institutions outside the university.
From June 10 to 12, 2014, Prof. Reimers and Simon Walz accompanied 28 students on a tour of destinations in the Rhine-Main region. During the trip, they visited ZDF in Mainz, the Merck company, and Deutsche Telekom Group Research.