Amsterdam


1. View near our hotel in Amsterdam.
2. Aalsmeer Flower Cooperative. This picture shows one of two automated auction rooms at Aalsmeer where the bidding and the buying take place. The two giant screens show the flowers being auctioned in real-time to the audience of bidders. As the flowers are auctioned, they pass by on carts below their respective screen.
3. Aalsmeer is one of the largest flower auctions in the world. Roughly the size of 250 football fields, Aalsmeer processes over 19 million cut flowers and 2 million plants per day.
4. A student being weighed by the owner of RAVAS Mobile Weighing Systems. Mobile weighing systems allow materials to be weighed on the fly thereby reducing the number of steps—and time—needed in using a fixed-scale system. In 2004, RAVAS acquired one of its main rivals located in Germany. Also in 2004, RAVAS moved some of its production to China.


Luxembourg


1. Luxembourg was once one of Europe's strongest fortresses. This photo is of part of the old fortifications overlooking the Alzette River.
2. Group picture at Pfizer with the Senior Director of Quality Control—Europe (2nd from right).
3. Business visit at Pfizer. The Senior Director of Quality Control—Europe discusses the challenges of costs and pricing worldwide in the pharmaceutical industry.
4. Students in a Pfizer office updating their website.


Paris




Row 1:
1. Louvre Museum: View of only part of the museum, once a palace to the French kings.
2. View of one of the many ornate rooms inside the Louvre Museum.
3. View of L'Opera.
4. Notre Dame Cathedral
5. Eiffel Tower

Row 2:
1. Group photo at Intel with the Director of Marketing—France (2nd from left).
2. Business visit at Intel. The Director of Marketing—France discusses marketing and branding locally and globally as a chips supplier to PC makers.
3. Group photo with French Senator Jean-Marc Lefranc. Our group met with Senator Lefranc and toured the National Assembly.
4. Business visit at Schlumberger. Our group met with the Manager for Internal Communications.
5. We also met with the Director of Corporate Communications.


Madrid

1. Group photo at Microsoft
2. In our meeting at Microsoft, the Regional Business Manager—Mediterranean discusses software piracy with the students, first from an ethical and legal standpoint, then the financial implications for Microsoft including the impact on Research and Development and ulitimately the consumer. Simply put, everyone loses.
3. Group photo with the owners of Iberian Moto Tours. IMT conducts motorcycle tours through Spain, Portugal and Morroco.
4. Now this is living! A typical "tapas bar" in Madrid with food so good you'll never leave.