Dietrich W. Botstiber was a graduate of the Technical University of Vienna and an Austrian emigrant to United States in the late 1930s. He enjoyed a very successful career as an engineer in the field of aeronautics in Philadelphia. Upon passing away he set up a Foundation to foster, among other things, Austrian – American relations by way of educational exchanges.

The Botstiber Foundation of Philadelphia sponsors a full-year graduate student engineering fellowship (including tuition), for the year 2010/2011 at the College of Engineering University of New Orleans. The Foundation will grant $18,000 for the fellowship.

The College of Engineering at UNO (see http://coe.uno.edu/) offers degrees in mechanical, electrical, civil & environmental, and in the nationally acclaimed program of naval architecture & marine engineering. It also has enjoyed a longstanding cooperation with the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, which builds the Space Shuttle’s external fuel tank and will be central to the next generation of NASA space vehicles. UNO maintains a National Biodynamics Laboratory and a National Center for Advanced Manufacturing at the Michoud facility.

Average Cost of One Year (9 months) of Studies at UNO

Tuition and Fees:           $ 5,958
Books and Insurance:   $ 1,758
Living Expenses:            $ 8,938
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TOTAL:                            $ 16,654

The College of Engineering at UNO (see http://coe.uno.edu/) offers degrees in mechanical, electrical, civil & environmental, and in the nationally acclaimed program of naval architecture & marine engineering. It also has enjoyed a longstanding cooperation with the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, which builds the Space Shuttle’s external fuel tank and will be central to the next generation of NASA space vehicles. UNO maintains a National Biodynamics Laboratory and a National Center for Advanced Manufacturing at the Michoud facility.

Austrian students at the Technical Universities of Innsbruck, Leoben, Vienna and Graz are encouraged to apply for these fellowships by sending their curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation and a short proposal of why a year of study would benefit their career no later March 15, 2010, to the Center Austria Coordinator Gertraud Griessner (ggriessn@uno.edu) for distribution.

UNIVERSITY CONTACTS:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Günter Hofstetter, Technik, Universität Innsbruck
(Guenter.Hofstetter@uibk.ac.at)

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Muhr, Vizerektor für Lehre und Studien, TU Graz
(muhr@tugraz.at)

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Galler, Universität Leoben
(Robert.Galler@mu-leoben.at)

Univ.-Prof. Ingo Marini, Techniche Universität Wien
(marini@tuwien.ac.at)

UNO Coordinator: Günter Bischof, Director, CenterAustria
(gjbischo@uno.edu)

UNO Senior Advisor: Dr. Bhaskar Kura, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNO (bkura@uno.edu)

Questions about UNO can also be directed to CenterAustria: ggriessn@uno.edu, or (001) 504-280-3223