Philipp Butz studies in the cooperative degree programme Electrical Engineering
Studying is comparable to hiking. You take a certain route and know approximately where you want to end up. But even though you have a rough idea of the route, there are many little forks in the road where you have to check the direction. At Ford, my training company, various options are open: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and sustainable engineering. After I had decided on a path, I was faced with another fork in the road in my third semester – which specialisation module should I choose? I decided on electronic systems, and now I realise that the closer I get to the Bachelor’s thesis, the more the route branches out. Now I really have to think about where I want to go. My boss takes the pressure off me and keeps emphasising that studying is not a one-way street. No matter where I end up, many more new paths open, and I can set off on a new course
