Education

Experts on engineering education

WPI is widely known as a pioneer in engineering education and STEM education. Its project-based WPI Plan, first implemented in the early 1970s, has inspired improvements, worldwide, in programs for educating future engineers and in the ways those programs are evaluated and accredited. Today, its Center for Project-Based Learning is helping college and university educators adopt the lessons WPI faculty have learned over the years. Among many other topics, WPI experts on engineering education can discuss the value of community-based engineering project work, the value of early exposure to project work, and how to develop a pipeline for manufacturing engineers.

Torbjorn Stansen Bergstrom
  • Operations Manager Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Bergstrom is a serial entrepreneur active in the areas of manufacturing, internet marketing, and cloud based software development. ... View Profile
Ted Clancy
  • Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor Edward (Ted) A. Clancy has worked in industry for medical instrumentation and analysis companies interested in EMG, EEG, ECG and blood pressure, and the defense industry (aircraft instruments and radar). ... View Profile
Brajendra Mishra
  • Kenneth G. Merriam Professor & Director, MPI Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Professor Mishra focuses on the improvement in resource productivity and environmental stewardship through process and product development of materials using recovery and recycling, introducing advanced alloys and life-extension by corrosion and surface ... View Profile
Elisabeth Anne Stoddard
  • Associate Professor of Teaching The Global School
Professor Stoddard is a human-environment geographer who is interested in the intersection of nature, society, and social justice. ... View Profile
Kristin K. Wobbe
  • Director, Center for Project Based Learning Center for Project Based Learning
As director of WPI’s Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL), Dr. ... View Profile