Combined Work and Study

Smooth transition from school to working life

A few weeks before his school-leaving exams in 2015, Philipp Thoms got to know Inros Lackner at a guest lecture at his school in Rostock. The company’s Managing Director, Ingo Aschmann, spoke there about the engineering profession and the possibility of combining the required study with practical work experience. He was immediately interested and applied for a three-week internship in the field of structural engineering at Inros Lackner. He completed the internship before finishing his school-leaving exams, and the insights he gained strengthened his desire to become an engineer. He then commenced a “dual study” programme, combining studying for his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Wismar University with practical work experience within the company. After that he continued on the same path, with a focus on structural engineering, and was awarded his master’s degree from the same university in 2021. The practical experience he gained throughout his studies enabled him to make a smooth transition to his future working life. He knew the company’s internal processes, and already during his studies he learned a lot about the practical application of CAD and engineering design software. And he could always rely on the support of his colleagues – not least when supervising his bachelor's thesis and his master's thesis in the fields of reinforced concrete and timber construction.

He is now a member of Inros Lackner’s structural design team in the company’s Rostock office, where he also participates in development workshops for the Complex Buildings department and contributes, as an internal trainer, to our "physically active breaktimes" initiative.