It had just 57 degree students — 3 in biology, 27 in business and 27 in engineering — at the start of this academic year, joined by a few more students and programs this semester.
There's been an increase in academic theme housing over the years where topics in the arts, humanities, and engineering shape the academic atmosphere of dormitories.
The Whitaker Foundation (Arlington, Va ., which awards grants for research and education in biomedical engineering at academic institutions in the United States and Canada, has a wealth of information about the field, including a list of programs that offer graduate degrees, on its Web site.
"We're effectively bringing the city to the vehicle," says Paul Jennings, professor of experiential engineering at WMG, an academic department that collaborates with industry.
Recent examples of innovative Teaching & Learning activities from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield are used to illustrate how academics there 'are moving with the times'.
That included not only a network of new roads and utility upgrades, but the creation of local academic centers, including an institute for nanotechnological engineering at the State University at Albany.
He excelled in academics, at Princeton as an undergraduate Phi Beta Kappa, and later as a Professor of Engineering at the School of Architecture.
But while studying metallurgical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic University) -- the first in his family to attend college -- he discovered he loved academic subjects, continued on for a Ph.D. and started teaching.
What followed was a successful and speedy academic career: a bachelor's degree in physics at the California Institute of Technology, then a master's and PhD in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington.
