His Dad earned his PhD in electrical engineering, having been put through school as a lifetime employee at Bell Labs.

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Page liked that Schmidt was an engineer who also had a PhD in computer engineering from University of California at Berkeley.

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The project began two years ago when University of Canterbury student Andrew Rudge, 25, began searching for a subject for his PhD in mechanical engineering.

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Its 25 people include a PhD in Electrical Engineering who is an expert on fiber optics, an aerospace engineer, and a computer scientist with a string of entrepreneurial successes in his wake.

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So when Dries finished up his PhD in computer science and engineering, he wanted to see if he could turn Drupal into a viable business.

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After growing up in Socorro, New Mexico, Bhappu got degrees in metallurgical engineering at the University of Arizona, and a PhD in mineral economics from the Colorado School of Mines.

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