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Being an official university club, ESMD received startup funding and continually receives day-to-day operational funds from the university system. The group deals with project costs on a project-by-project basis. Because the group commonly recieves projects (or inspiration for projects) from its close cooperation with clinicians and medical industry, cost for expensive equipment is generally subsidized by the cooperating group. Being a student group, ESMD also receives donations and functional samples from companies. Note: While not all campuses have access to local industry that will aid in project cost or a university to fund activities, many large companies are more than willing to assist student groups working in bioengineering fields- up to and sometimes including donations of otherwise prohibitively expensive equipment.