Basically, the park offers everything necessary for a business to operate, which includes things such as providing land and pre-built factories to other more obscure things such as handling customs. A lot of different businesses operate in the park.
One business in particular that we visited at the park was II-VI, which is a technology company that specializes in optics and thermoelectric devices.
What was crazy was that I worked an entire semester on thermoelectric research back at the University of Pittsburgh, and the tour of the factory showed the entire manufacturing process for the TEM cooling systems. With my experience, I was able to discuss with the man in charge of production about all of the science behind II-VI’s products, and we even both understood the different terms related to the science. It was incredible how the same common methods that I studied in the United States were universally understood even by Vietnamese scientists. We then ate lunch at a Chinese restaurant near the park, which had delicious seafood.
We also visited a ceramic shop that had all types of dishware and other odds and ends.
Afterwards, the Vietnamese students took us to a “French” restaurant, and I had crocodile with barbecue sauce. Although the meat was tougher than what I was used to, it actually tasted really good. The French fries reminded me a bit of home too.
After that I went back to the hotel to prepare for the next day in Vietnam.
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