A group of fifteen students accompanied by professors Jürgen Stamm, Márcio Salgueiro Roth and Tom Roessger from the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics of the Technische Universität Dresden visited DECivil on the 31st of May.

During the visit, they had the opportunity to visit the Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment Laboratory, where they were received by Professors Dídia Covas, Helena Ramos and Juan Portillo and Researchers Isabel Boavida and Marta Cabral. In this had the opportunity to see different experimental facilities used for research and educational purposes, including facilities for the study of hydraulic transient flows, the installation of the water wheel for the recovery of hydroelectric energy and the wave channel for the study of prototypes for the use of wave energy. The researcher Isabel Boavida presented the research work that aims to develop an integrated approach to the sustainability of fish populations downstream of hydroelectric plants.

Then they visited the Laboratory of Structures and Resistance of Materials, where they observed reinforced concrete beams reinforced with carbon fibers, FRP (fibre-reinforced polymer) profiles, metallic connections between profiles of composite materials, the lateral buckling of a steel beam of large dimensions and stone masonry walls with various reinforcement solutions. Researcher Inês Rosa presented the work characterizing the behaviour of carbon fibers at high temperature that she is developing. The three-dimensional frame made up of fiberglass composite profiles and concrete slabs mounted on the seismic table, the wind tunnel and the wooden structure taken from a wall of an 18th-century "gaioleiro" building in Baixa Pombalina were other points of interest.

This was followed by a visit to the DECivil Museum, where an exchange of ideas on the teaching of Civil Engineering in both countries took place. The interest shown by the coexistence of Architecture and Civil Engineering courses in the same department motivated the visit to a room of Architecture students, where the visit ended.