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He went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( WPI ) for his first degree.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( WPI ) is a private university located in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

On that day, Charles O. Thompson, the first president of the Institute stood before WPI ’ s first two buildings named Boynton Hall and Washburn Shops in honor of their respective donors, with their distinctive towers that even then symbolized the institution ’ s two educational objectives of theory and practice, and inaugurated the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science.

The WPI Plan is the guiding principle behind undergraduate education at the Institute today, and is arguably the most notable contribution WPI has made towards science and engineering education.

BusinessWeek has ranked Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( WPI ) # 1 in the nation for its part-time Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) program, and # 1 in the nation for student satisfaction in the program.

Other colleges in the Worcester Consortium includes Anna Maria College, Assumption College, Becker College, Clark University, College of the Holy Cross, Cummings school of Veterinary Medicine, Mass College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Nichols College, Quinsigamond Community College, UMass Medical School, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( WPI ).

Mount Holyoke College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( WPI ) joined in 1988 and the name was changed to the NEW 8 Conference.

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( WPI ) offers a M. S.

Quantitatively, thickness is measured by the number of wraps per inch ( WPI ).

Yarns are grouped by thickness into six categories: superfine, fine, light, medium, bulky and superbulky ; quantitatively, thickness is measured by the number of wraps per inch ( WPI ).

The Wholesale Price Index ( WPI ) is the price of a representative basket of wholesale goods.

The Wholesale Price Index or WPI is " the price of a representative basket of wholesale goods.

The Indian WPI is now updated on a monthly basis.

The purpose of the WPI is to monitor price movements that reflect supply and demand in industry, manufacturing and construction.

The wholesale price index ( WPI ) is based on the wholesale price of a few relevant commodities of over 240 commodities available.

The commodities chosen for the calculation are based on their importance in the region and the point of time the WPI is employed.

Based on this individual movement, the WPI is determined through the averaging principle.

Today, WPI is primarily an undergraduate focused institution, though expansion of graduate and research programs is a long-term goal.

Near the edge of the WPI campus is a large Tudor-style mansion built in 1923 by WPI alumnus Aldus Chapin Higgins and later bequeathed to his alma mater.

At WPI, the opportunity to complete significant project work off campus is an integral element of an academic program that emphasizes the practical application of knowledge to meaningful technical and societal problems.

Alden Memorial is the main building for the performing arts at WPI, consisting of a performance hall, music rooms, and a computer music lab.

WPI is also renowned for producing high earning graduates.

WPI is host to a number of annual and weekly events.

Every Saturday and Sunday, a new film is shown on the WPI campus in Fuller Laboratoires weeks prior to its DVD release.

WPI is one of the few universities capable of showing both 35 mm film and 70 mm film in the same hall.

Significant research in other fields such as metallurgy, untethered health care, fuel cells, the learning sciences, applied mathematics and fire protection currently help establish WPI as an important, specialized research university.

Unlike many peer universities, WPI currently does not combine related departments into colleges or schools.

Businessweek currently ranks WPI 15th nationwide for return on investment beating out three Ivy League schools while Forbes ranked it # 9 in a 2008 study, " Top Colleges for Getting Rich ", based on median and top salary of graduates at the start and end of their career.

Storke brought significant change to the school in what would be known as the WPI Plan.

SISAL saw a brief resurgence in 2010 when a group of undergraduates at WPI investigated implementing a fine-grain parallelism backend for the SISAL language.

degree from WPI in 1921 and then joined Western Electric, which was the manufacturing arm of AT & T.

* Robert H. Goddard Award from WPI 1981

* WPI gives away the annual Harold S. Black Scholarship ( 1992 -)

Harold S. Black Papers at WPI

At WPI, Goddard joined the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and began a long courtship with high school classmate Miriam Olmstead, an honor student who had graduated with him as salutatorian.

Some countries ( like India and The Philippines ) use WPI changes as a central measure of inflation.

Some countries use the changes in this index to measure inflation in their economies, in particular India – The Indian WPI figure was earlier released weekly on every Thursday and influenced stock and fixed price markets.

For example in India about 435 items were used for calculating the WPI in base year 1993-94 while the advanced base year 2004-05 uses 676 items.

Founded in 1865 in Worcester, WPI was one of the United States ' first engineering and technology universities.

There are 25 WPI project centers throughout North America and Central America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Europe.

WPI was led in its early years by president and professor of chemistry Charles O. Thompson.