Information For Sponsors
This page contains information for organizations considering sponsoring projects for WPI's Silicon Valley Project Center for C-term 2006. The projects, called Major Qualifying Projects, will run for nine weeks, from early January to mid-March 2006. The project teams generally consist of three advanced undergraduate students, all from the same major, although interdisciplinary teams are possible. The students work full time at the sponsor's site for the nine weeks of the project program, working on a project designated by the sponsor, with the participation of a WPI faculty advisor. Additional information about the WPI Silicon Valley Project Center is available from the links below.
To give you an idea of what the students can accomplish during a project, we have assembled executive summaries for projects performed at the Silicon Valley Project Center in previous years. You can either download the individual summaries in Word format, or all of the summaries in a single Zip file. The full reports are available on request.
There are also links to additional information about the WPI Project Program.
Please feel free to contact either of the Project Center Co-Directors, David Finkel or John Orr, if you have any questions about reports or about the WPI project program.
The Silicon Valley Project Center
Executive Summaries from Silicon Valley Project Center, 2004
- eBay Logging (Computer Science)
- eBay Messaging (Computer Science)
- SRI Bioinformatics (Computer Science)
- SRI Radar (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- ZIP file containing all of the 2004 Executive Summaries
Executive Summaries from Silicon Valley Project Center, 2003
- eBay Bot Blockers (Computer Science)
- eBay Linguistic Analysis (Computer Science)
- eBay Search Engine (Computer Science)
- SRI Sleep Lab Project (Computer Science)
- Microbar Project (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- SiPix Project (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- SRI Radar Project (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- ZIP file containing all of the 2003 Executive Summaries
Executive Summaries from Silicon Valley Project Center, 2002
- Atmel (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- SRI International, Radar Project (Computer Science)
- SRI International, Sleep Lab Project (Computer Science)
- SiPix Display Controller Project (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- SiPix Dispay Driver Project (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- ZIP file containing all of the 2002 Executive Summaries
Executive Summaries from Silicon Valley Project Center, 2001
- Atmel Berkeley (Computer Science)
- Atmel San Jose (Electrical and Computer Engineering
- New Focus (Computer Science)
- SRI International (Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science)
- Microbar (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Teradyne (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- ZIP file containing all of the 2001 Executive Summaries
Executive Summaries from Silicon Valley Project Center, 2000
- Kana Communications (Computer Science)
- Sparks.com (Computer Science)
- Microbar (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- ZIP file containing all of the 2000 Executive Summaries
The WPI Project Program
Contact information:
Prof. David Finkel
Department of Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609
Telephone: 508-831-5416
Fax: 508-831-5776
E-Mail: dfinkel@wpi.edu
Prof. John A. Orr
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Worcester
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609
Telephone: 508-831-5273
E-Mail: orr@wpi.edu
Last modified: November 03, 2006 16:04:18