Worcester Polytechnic Institute
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1865 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place |
Worcester, Massachusetts United States
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| President | Laurie Leshin |
| Students | 6139 |
| Professors | 478 |
| Website | [1] |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private US university in Worcester, Massachusetts .
The university was founded in 1865. The current university president is Laurie Leshin .
Former WPI students
- Elwood Haynes (graduated 1881), chemist and inventor in early automotive engineering
- William Hobbs (graduating class 1883), well-known geologist of the 19th century
- Kotaro Shimomura (graduated in 1888), chemist, president of Doshisha University and Osaka Gas in Japan
- Atwater Kent (retired 1895/1896) founded Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company , a leader in the manufacture of radios in the 1920s (there is a building on the campus called Atwater Kent Laboratories).
- John Woodman Higgins (graduated 1896), founder of the Worcester Pressed Steel Company and the Higgins Armory Museum
- Robert Goddard (graduate year 1908), "father" of modern rocket construction
- Gilbert Vernam (graduated 1914), researcher in cryptography
- William Stevens Lawton (retired 1918), United States Army Lieutenant General
- Burton Marsh , (graduated 1920), Transportation Engineering Engineer , The Institute of Transportation Engineers presents the annual Burton W. Marsh Award in memory of him.
- Harold Stephen Black (graduated 1921) revolutionized electronics by inventing a negative feedback amplifier in 1927
- Richard T. Whitcomb (graduated 1943), astronaut scientist
- Robert Stempel (graduate year 1955) inventor of the catalytic converter and former chairman and managing director of General Motors
- Paul Allaire (graduated 1960), former managing director of Xerox
- Curtis Carlson (graduated 1967), noted researcher and president of SRI International
- Daniel Robbins (retired), founder and lead architect of the Gentoo Linux project
- Todd Akin (graduated 1970), United States House Representative for Missouri.
- Michael J. Dolan (graduated 1975), Vice President of ExxonMobil Corporation and President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company
- Dean Kamen (retired 1976), inventor of the insulin pump and founder of the Segway Human Transporter company
- Dan Itse (Graduated 1980) Engineer, inventor, New Hampshire House of Representatives
- David Gewirtz (graduated 1982), CNN columnist
- Nancy Pimental (graduated 1987), chemist, screenwriter of the animated series South Park and the film The Sweetest Thing , followed Jimmy Kimmel to host Win Ben Stein's Money
- Dr. Anup K. Ghosh (graduated 1991), electronics engineer and computer scientist, received the National Security Agency Frank Byron Rowlett Award in 2005
- Andy Ross (graduate class 1997), guitarist and singer in the rock band OK Go
- Naveen Selvadurai (graduated in 2002), co-founder of Foursquare
- John Geils (retired in 1967) founded The J. Geils Band
Web links
Commons : Worcester Polytechnic Institute - collection of images, videos, and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.wpi.edu/offices/president/about
- ↑ Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: December 22nd, 2003 ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 12, 2007
- ↑ Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1993–1994 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , p. 157
Coordinates: 42 ° 16'27 " N , 71 ° 48'29.6" W.