But by the time he graduated with an associate's degree in engineering from Lincoln Tech in 2002, his prospects were grim.

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At schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools, the City University of New York, and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering.

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Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high-school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.

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Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.

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"If this technology works on a commercial scale the way we believe it will, the treatment of wastewater could be a huge energy producer, not a huge energy cost, " said Hong Liu, an associate professor in the OSU Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering.

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"It enhanced the brain's perception across the board, not only to things that are obviously a threat but also to things that aren't obvious but might be threats, " says Lilianne Mujica-Parodi, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Stony Brook University in New York and lead author of the article.

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"In the next five years we're going to see more and more exoskeletons out there in practice, " says Sugar, associate professor at the Department of Engineering, Arizona State University.

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From the scientific perspective, for the story to close for science, flight rates have to be high, said Alan Stern, chair of the scientific organizing committee for the conference and associate vice president of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder.

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Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.

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