Marshall Plan Scholarships for MCI students
Prestigious US scholarships awarded to outstanding MCI students for a research semester in technical disciplines
Thanks to their academic achievements and the quality of their project
proposals, two MCI students have this year been awarded one of the much
sought-after Marshall Plan Scholarships and will be spending a research
semester at elite universities in the United States.
Benedek
Szulyovszky will be writing his final Master’s thesis at the Robotics
Institute of the famous Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, which
has 19 Nobel Prize winners among its former staff and students. For his
Master’s thesis, Martin Lehmeier is going to the legendary Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, the world’s biggest
university for aviation and aerospace.
Both scholars are studying Mechatronics at the MCI and will receive generous support for their semester in the USA.
The
Marshall Plan Scholarship Program (MPS) is an exchange program
established to finance scholarships for academic exchange between
Austria and the U.S. It has a focus on research in technical
disciplines.
The philosophy behind the Marshall Plan Scholarships
is that students should return home with an “extended perspective” and
“new respect for different views” and make a contribution to the
transfer of science and technology between the academic institutions
involved.