Apprenticeship: Inter-company courses at ETH Zurich
The Department of Physics at ETH Zurich conducts regularly three different inter-company courses per school year for prospective physics laboratory technicians. The apprentices come from all over German-speaking Switzerland and learn about materials science, metrology and measurement method
In January 2019, the vocational trainers taught apprentices from German-speaking Switzerland in materials science: for 9 days, 18 apprentices in their first year from 13 different companies throughout German-speaking Switzerland. With specially designed experiments and test arrangements, they put the theory into practice. In the final part of the training, the responsible trainers Cornel Andreoli and Sira Alder, together with Severin Zimmermann (3rd year of apprenticeship), invited the responsible managers from the 13 companies to ETH Zurich for an exchange.