In this year Bolza, who was by now in the United States, was working at Johns Hopkins University where he had been given a temporary short-term appointment, and he had already accepted an appointment at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Maschke decided that the best course of action for him was to follow Bolza to the United States but Bolza warned him that it was not easy to get academic positions there. Maschke thought he had better have qualifications to enter some other profession otherwise he might emigrate to the United States and end up there as a school teacher - the profession he had now decided to give up. Keeping his teaching post, he began part-time study of electrotechnics at the Polytechnicum in Charlottenburg in 1889-90. In 1890 he resigned his teaching post and took up full-time technical training in Darmstadt.
Sa taon na ito Bolza, na sa ngayon sa Estados Unidos, ay nagtatrabaho sa Johns Hopkins University kung saan siya had been given ng isang pansamantalang short-term appointment, at niya na tinanggap ng appointment sa Clark University sa Worcester, Massachusetts. Maschke nagpasya na ang pinakamahusay na kurso ng aksyon para sa kanya ay upang sundin Bolza sa Pilipinas ngunit Bolza Babala sa kanya na ito ay hindi madaling makakuha ng academic posisyon doon. Maschke-iisip niya ng mas mahusay na may kwalipikasyon upang ipasok ang ilang mga iba pang propesyon sa kabilang banda siya maaaring mandayuhan sa Estados Unidos at sa wakas up na may bilang isang guro - ang propesyon niya ngayon, nagpasya na bigyan up. Nag-iingat ng kanyang pagtuturo post, siya ay nagsimulang part-time na pag-aaral ng Elektroteknika sa Polytechnicum sa Charlottenburg sa 1889-90. 1890 siya sa kanyang kalooban-post ng pagtuturo at kinuha up full-time na teknikal na pagsasanay sa Darmstadt.