I did have a few "Praktikum" units but they were very crude, basically recreating expected results on very old lab equipment. In higher level classes I had a l

I did have a few "Praktikum" units but they were very crude, basically recreating expected results on very old lab equipment. In higher level classes I had a lot of really excellent practical projects to work on, some of them directly financed by small and medium companies. I guess it should be mentioned that most German University degrees take somewhere around 5-6 years so the hands-on work usually comes later.