Interdisciplinary & Global Studies Division

Wall Street, New York City

Term: B 2007

Project Opportunities: MQP (MGE, CS, IE and MAS)

Housing: Shared student apartments

Directors: Professors Arthur Gerstenfeld and Rick Brown

Preparation: 1/3 unit preparation course

Application Deadline: November 7, 2006 by 1 p.m.

Location

New York is one of the world’s most exciting cities. Some of the best theater and museums are found there. Wall Street is known as the world center of investments and banking and is seen as the capital of business and technology. It has proved to be a training ground for the leaders of the future. New York is a place where people both work and play hard. It is fast moving and allows the opportunity to apply many of the skills learned at WPI.

Projects

At the Wall Street Project Center, students complete MQP’s while working with a wide variety of agencies, such as Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, and J.P. Morgan. Wall Street, now much more than investments, is the center of world commerce; there is a need for WPI projects involving computer science, management, industrial engineering, and mathematical sciences. Some of our projects include work-flow analysis, risk analysis (country risk limits), system usability, and data-base corruption issues. Other projects include user on-line functionality, and user help functions for global settlement systems. The projects are challenging and important to the clients as well as to the students.

Estimated Expenses:

New York City

Estimated Out-of-Pocket Expenses   $300
     600
     900
     500
$2,300
Travel to site (RT airfare)
Groceries
Dining out (10x term)
Weekend tourist activities
Estimated total out-of-pocket expenses
Expenses Included on your WPI Bill:3,600Housing
Estimated total expenses$5,900(tuition and on-campus housing not included)

London

Estimated Out-of-Pocket Expenses   $600
       60
     750
     400
  1,000
$2,810
Travel to site (RT airfare)
Taxi from residence to airport
Groceries
Dining out (10 x term)
Weekend tourist activities
Estimated total out-of-pocket expenses
Expenses Included on your WPI Bill:3,500Housing
Estimated total expenses$6,310(tuition and on-campus housing not included)

Subject to change due to fluctuations in exchange rate

Note:

In calculating the extra expense to participate in an off-campus project experience, compare this figure to expenses incurred while living on campus (groceries or meal plan, entertainment expenses, transportation, etc.)

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