Although the company is developing engineering and sales capabilities in house, most of its intellectual property assets have come through recent acquisitions.

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The company has built a business model that is hard to replicate, partly because it does engineering, sales, installation and maintenance in-house.

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These new offices will house the engineering center, which the company expects to launch in 2012.

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Cody Ray, President of the Drexel Smart House Group, who is currently completing his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, detailed the many projects that he and other students across disciplines have played a role in developing and executing.

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She was also named to help lead the White House national program on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) in November 2009.

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