In an interview with CNN, certain details of Jarrah's studies at the school were confirmed by Hans-Gerhardt Husung, president oftheUniversityofAppliedSciences.
When the machine-building department at Bielefeld's UniversityofAppliedSciences looked in danger of closing, industry drummed up interest among students to keep it open.
The move comes just weeks after theuniversity, in partnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, won a competition to create a new applied-sciences campus in New York City.