When she heats up glass in the workshop and molds it exactly by hand into delicate home appliances, Lea Hering’s workmanship is clear to see. The Glass Apparatus Maker is amongst the best trainees in her year nationwide. “Learning an occupation where you can see the tangible result of your work was very important to me,” she says. What she especially values at TU Dortmund University is the wide array of tasks: “No 2 days are the very same.” For her, having the opportunity as a student to work on her own pieces sometimes when things were quieter was likewise extremely important.
In the last tests of the Chamber of Commerce and Market, Lea Hering was among the 211 finest students from around 250,000 examinees throughout Germany and furthermore numbered among the best in North Rhine-Westphalia. She was commended for her outstanding performance both at the awards event in Soest for the best trainees at local level and at the nationwide awards ceremony in Berlin.
Craftsmanship that is both exact and innovative
During her training in the workshops at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Lea Hering made unique devices for research laboratories and repaired fragile glass components– work that requires a high degree of precision. “You are monitored by numerous experienced coworkers, who each program you their own individual method so that you slowly establish your own design,” she discusses. Having actually finished her traineeship, she is now employed at TU Dortmund University on a long-term basis.