Tokyo, Japan Project Center - MQP

Current Director(s)
Active Program Term(s)
B-Term during late fall
Project Opportunities
Major Qualifying Project (MQP)

This project center is centered around Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), an engineering-focused university with a campus in the heart of downtown Tokyo.   SIT is a very urban campus in a single large 14-story building housing teaching and research facilities.  The location is beautiful, in an artificial archipelago a short bridge-walk from the heart of downtown Tokyo.  It is slightly larger than WPI (~6000 undergrads 2000 grad students), and has ten full-time staff focused on international programs.  SIT hosts about 1000 visiting students per year from all over the world.  The building is engineered to resist damage during earthquakes: during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, not a single book fell from the library shelves.  It also includes a "Tech Plaza" comparable to the Innovation Studio labs, this one with optical and electron microscopes, X-ray diffraction and tomography, and other equipment, all of which are available for use by appropriately trained students.  Students have completed MQPs since 2019.