Changes

The Kern Keen Family has awarded WPI with $488,500 to facilitate the development of new programs aimed at enhancing the impact of WPI’s project-based approach to undergraduate education. The aim of the award is to help WPI “realize a strategic goal of infusing the undergraduate program with an entrepreneurial mindset, " according to WPI president Laurie Leshin.

The Great Problem Seminar (GPS) is an introductory course to university-level research and project work, and focuses focusing on themes of current global importance. They help first-year students develop the skills they’ll need to be successful in project work at WPI and in their future careers.