Pudwill holds a masters degree in engineering and a general commercial degree.

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Two years ago George Hamilton, Dow's commercial director of engineering plastics, approached Elkhart, Ind.

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Someday that engineering feat may turn into a commercial reality.

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His research interests in the Geoenvironmental Engineering field range from the basic to commercial development.

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In addition to clearing our last remaining scientific hurdle, we need to advance a parallel engineering agenda into key reactor technologies that will enable commercial fusion power plants to reliably deliver electricity in a highly competitive market.

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The exercise was also useful in that the data mining class includes both business students and those from the university's engineering department, among them graduate computing student Rosskyn Dsouza, who gained some new commercial insights.

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Two years ago, Sheffield University, which has added biotechnology to its traditional strength in engineering, set up a unit to try to turn some of its research discoveries into commercial ideas.

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Navistar said it might have an opportunity to bid on a production contract once the engineering phase is complete, but said it still thinks its Saratoga JLTV, based on existing commercial trucks, is a cost-effective solution.

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To make the machine commercial strength and add depth to his materials science knowledge, he brought in Weinberg, his onetime chemical engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology.

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