Tuesday 16 / April / 2024
MUSCAT: A group of fourth-year students have been awarded study scholarships for conducting their Bachelor thesis in Engineering, Geosciences, Urban Planning and Architecture at the RWTH Aachen University (Germany).
All these students have already visited RWTH Aachen University during study excursions in the past years and have studied German for three semesters at GUtech.
“We are very happy to send these five students to our partner-university. The students have passed a selection process and were the most successful. To enhance cooperation with the German universities, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is sponsoring GUtech students and excursions regularly,” said Andrea Cornelissen, a DAAD representative in Oman and German lecturer at GUtech.
Three students will receive funding from DAAD, one student will be sponsored through a research grant and another student will be self-sponsored. The students are currently passing some final exams and are preparing for their studies abroad.
“Studying Engineering at RWTH Aachen is great, there are many well-equipped laboratories,” said Nouf Al Salmi, a Process Engineering student, who holds a scholarship from Petroleum Development Oman (PDO).
Al Salmi and her engineering study-colleagues and professors had visited RWTH Aachen during a three-week excursion last year.
Balaj Faisal is also studying Engineering. He will write his Bachelor thesis on “Modelling of Steel Production,” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen. Faisal also did an internship at a steel company in Italy last year, where he studied at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Brescia for several months. He was also part of a Summer School at the Veolia head offices in Paris, along with only 20 other international students.
“My participation in the Shell Eco-Marathon last year, helped a lot in getting accepted for the Veolia Summer School,” he said. After the Bachelor’s thesis, Balaj would like to gain some work experience with Veolia, especially in the field of renewable energies and then continue with an MSc programme.
“I know I will learn a lot and become more independent while studying in Germany,” said Rawan Bassett, who will conduct her Bachelor thesis on an urban design project in the city of Aachen.
First Student-Entrepreneurs Fair
Sixty students from different departments presented a total of 22 business ideas to staff and students, as the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) held its First Student-Entrepreneurs Fair in the university’s premises in Halban recently.
The fair was part of the “Entrepreneurship Course” conducted for all 4th year students and was held in cooperation with the SME Development Fund (SMEF).
