Howard Kaufold, vice dean of the Wharton MBA for Executives program, says a typical EMBA student would be an engineer in their late 20s or early 30s.

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The Stanford computer science program that Keeshin was trained in is trying to find more room for the artist alongside the engineer and entrepreneur in its student body.

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He is also a gifted engineer who as a university student sent a thesis paper to BMW on how to improve the rear design of its racing bikes.

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While a computer science student at the University of Louisville, he was the first engineer at Netzee, a payments company, that went public and was later acquired by Fidelity.

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The groom, an engineer, applied for an annulment because his bride, a student nurse, had lied to him about her virginity.

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The site, free student question and answer service Piazza, is the brainchild of former Facebook, Kosmix and Oracle engineer Pooja Sankar, who felt a need for students to be able to connect with each other around their classes.

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