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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If you walk through the halls of any graduate program, any engineering school, many of these kids are foreign-born.

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Most of the young'uns are graduate-school educated and made their piles through financial engineering or mastering the art of Internet commerce.

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He was a conscientious, if not particularly likeable, army officer, and a graduate of Polytechnique, the highly competitive French engineering school.

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While the new applied sciences school is expected to drive up the number of engineering graduate students in the city by 70% next year, some students are fueling growth on their own, little by little.

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Patell, a business-school professor, consisted of thirty-seven graduate and three undergraduate students from thirteen departments, including engineering, political science, business, medicine, biology, and education.

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