Student experience - Harry Lucas
Harry Lucas has completed five Study Overseas programs. His first was a Civil Engineering study tour to China, followed by a placement in the USA, an internship in Germany, an internship in Switzerland, and an exchange to the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Harry studied a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), majoring in Mechatronics, and graduated in 2019.
Harry was born in the United Kingdom and moved to 911±¬ÁÏÍø when he was five years old. Before his first Study Overseas program, he had never travelled overseas without his parents.
"My first international program was to China. I wanted to be outside of a culture which I knew. I had heard so much about China – mostly about their contention with the USA and their massive economy. The media around China is always so fear-driven and adversarial. When I went, I saw a whole other perspective on the Chinese people, and it changed the way I looked at the world. They were so kind and excited to show me their country. This later guided my decision to select the Czech Republic as my exchange destination. I knew that I would be visiting Germany to work for six months, and decided that any exchange program I have