Getting Started

The objective of the IQP is to enable WPI graduates to understand, as citizens and as professionals, how their careers will affect the larger society of which they are part. Generally, these projects involve some analysis of how technology affects, and is affected by, individuals and communities.

This section contains resources that provide basic information about IQPs, including different topics that can be explored within different divisions, how faculty can submit project proposals, and where students can search for possible IQP opportunities.

Helpful information is available from the IGSD website for advisor workshop materials.

For basic information about the IQP, including possible preparation courses and topics within the different divisions, read Basic information about the IQP.

Faculty can add project topics to the project proposals list. Students can find project topics and faculty interested in advising projects in each division in this list too.

Faculty are strongly encouraged to prepare a syllabus to assist in setting and communicating project expectations to students. Faculty should use the Learning Outcomes for the IQP as a foundation for setting these expectations ( See Learning Outcomes for the IQP ). Examples of syllabi which faculty can adapt for there own use are Syllabus for first Term of an On-Campus IQP(Vaz) and Universal IQP Syllabus (Rissmiller). Additional templates for guidelines that faculty have distributed to students are Faculty Project Guidelines and Gennert's Project Guidelines.

A summary of lessons learned from successful On-Campus advisors has been compiled.

The best of the IQPs completed each year are entered into the President's IQP Awards Competition. Abstracts and Executive Summaries of the Winners of the Winners of the WPI Presidents IQP Awards from 1998 to 2005 are available.

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Last modified: Apr 18, 2008, 12:17 EDT