Office of the Provost

Responsible for the overall quality of teaching, scholarship, and research at WPI, the Office of the Provost is the nerve center for academic oversight, support, and resource operations. In collaboration with the university’s deans and professional staff, the provost works to assure the continued excellence of WPI’s premier undergraduate program, the relevance of our graduate research enterprise, and to attract, recruit, and retain outstanding faculty.

Provost's MQP Awards

The Provost’s MQP Awards recognize teams of students who have completed exemplary academic projects. Winners are chosen in each department through a competition process, which reflects the true depth and breadth of academic opportunity at WPI. The MQP (Major Qualifying Project) is one of the university’s distinctions in its project-based learning curriculum. All seniors complete an MQP, a professional-level research project in their major discipline. Using the knowledge they have acquired, they apply it to real-world professional problems and scenarios.

Meet this year's winners.

Projects and Their Impact

Through a project-based education, students discover the value of learning by doing. They take the hypothetical and make it real, applying skills and concepts from the classroom to real problems, leading to real-world experience and impact.

Project-based Learning

Research at WPI

WPI faculty and students are engaged in conducting research at the far reaches of discovery—and always with a purpose. Passionate about their disciplines and their students, our faculty are remarkable in their commitment, even when it comes to encouraging children to reach for STEM. Every year, faculty step up to enthrall throngs of children and families at TouchTomorrow, our festival of science, technology, and robots.

Research

The Global School Forum

The Global School Forum is a showcase of The Global School at WPI. Events focus on global grand challenge themes and the work WPI is doing in collaboration with regional academic, corporate, government and non-profit partners around the world. Click here to learn more about the series and register for events.