WPI President's IQP Awards: Entry Rules

Entry Rules

  1. A project may be submitted anytime after its completion. Completion is defined as follows: If the Registrar has recorded the Completion of Degree Requirement form (CDR), the project is completed for those students named on the forms.
  2. A project may be submitted only once.
  3. To enter the competition, the project author(s) must:
    1. Fill out the competition entry form, available at the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division or on-line.
    2. Submit a separate Executive Summary of no more than five single-spaced pages. Note: You may revise the executive summary of your final project report for this purpose. This summary should accurately represent the report and call attention to those features of the project which are felt to be outstanding and worthy of consideration by the Awards Committee. This summary is the major determinant in the preliminary appraisal stage. Projects are unlikely to get beyond the preliminaries if the summary is poorly written. Your objectives, procedures, and outcomes must all be crystal clear. We urge you to discuss your Executive Summary with your advisor.
    3. If the project has not been filed in electronic form with the Registrar, lend a personal copy of the entire report to the Awards Committee. The report must accompany summary and entry form. Project reports will be returned after the judging. If the project was filed electronically, the Committee will access the report on the WPI website.
    4. Notify your IQP advisor(s) that you will be entering your project in the competition.
  4. Project advisors will be asked to comment, in writing, on the project for the Awards Committee.

Oral Presentations

Finalists should contact there advisors to make arrangements to practice their oral presentations.

Additional Information

For additional information, contact Ruth McKeogh in the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division, second floor of the Project Center.

Reminder:

Competition will be held on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Odeum