Lifelong Project Impact
Student project team working from WPI’s Iceland Project Center
In recognition of WPI’s commitment to immersive global experiential learning, NAFSA: Association of International Educators selected WPI as a winner of the NAFSA 2024 Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award for Campus Internationalization. This award celebrates WPI's efforts to maximize student participation in the Global Projects Program—a signature element of WPI’s project-based learning that gives students the opportunity to complete required research projects off-campus at 50+ WPI project centers worldwide.
Undergraduate students conducting hands-on research
WPI is the proud recipient of the esteemed Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) 2023 Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments (AURA). A leader in experiential undergraduate education and research excellence, WPI’s holistic and deliberate approach to project-based education integrates research and design experiences into the entire curriculum, building a scaffold of various research projects throughout a student’s journey.
Student project team working from WPI’s Monteverde, Costa Rica Project Center
WPI is honored to receive the 2023 Institute of International Education (IID) Andrew Heiskel Award for innovation in student mobility and expanding access to global projects. The award promotes and honors outstanding initiatives in international higher education by recognizing innovative and successful programs such as WPI’s Global Projects Program—a signature component of WPI’s project-based learning model that facilitates student travel to more than 50 project centers around the world.
WPI Alumni Report Project Work Has Powerful Long-Term Professional and Personal Impacts
A 2021 study including 40 classes of WPI alumni, from 1980 to 2019, asked about skills, mindsets, and experiences alumni might attribute to their projects—and the results were powerful. In thisvideo series, hear from WPI alumni and students alike about how their WPI project-based education has had a lifelong impact on their professional and personal lives, as well as their world views.
WPI has More than 50 Years Experience with Project-Based Learning—Meet Our Experts
Professor Davis is a scholar of 20th century U.S. history, focusing specifically on topics of race, gender, legal history, and critical prison studies.
Professor Gericke is a biophysical chemist studying lipid mediated protein functions using calorimetric, spectroscopic, and advanced microscopic techniques. An area of particular interest is phosphoinositide mediated signaling.
Professor Smith is an award-winning game designer. Her interdisciplinary work merges technical research in AI and HCI with creative practice in textiles and games, with a view towards addressing social issues and broadening participation and perspectives on computing.
