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.

Instead of a normal semester, WPI has 7-week terms, labeled A-D, with an optional E term in the summer.

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.

A several-day event showcasing the comedic talents of college students both inside and outside WPI, the festival has featured the school's three comedy troupes, KILROY Sketch Comedy, Guerilla Improv, and

* Anjomane Zede din ( Anti-Religion Society ) is a secularist group formed in August 2005. it is very close to WPI and has its own paper, called in Persian, Sekolar.

The group claims to hold more closely to the line of Mansoor Hekmat, the WPI's founder, but this claim has denied by the WPI leadership and the dispute between the two parties is still ongoing.

WPI has its origin in the Democratic Vanguard in India.

WPI has chosen to stay out of the Left Front.

WPI considers the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as revisionist. Oflate, WPI has joined the Left Front in 2011.

See also, The Trusted Systems Project, a part of the Global Information Society Project ( GISP ), a joint research project of the World Policy Institute ( WPI ) and the Center for Advanced Studies in Sci.

WPI Corporate and Professional Education ( CPE ) also offers academic opportunities to individuals and companies.

WPI is also renowned for producing high earning graduates.

Members of the WPI Pokémon Trainers League also meet and play Pokémon games together.

WPI owns a 24 hour TV station called New Channel which is mainly in Persian but also broadcasts some programs in English, Kurdish and Azeri Turkish.

Other Marx Societies ( also close to WPI ) have been formed in other countries, such as Canada.

He is also a member of Central Committee and Politburo of WPI.

She also holds an honorary doctor of engineering degree from WPI.

Students are also prohibited from entering the dormitories at WPI.

The Brovertones also enjoy performing many on and off campus shows every term, with recent off campus excursions to Brown University, Princeton University, Tufts University, Georgetown University, Smith College, Middlebury College, and WPI.

This student had been engaging in illegal computer hacking activities involving the WPI network.

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 Global Perspective Program was cited by the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 2000, when it named WPI one of 16 Greater Expectations Leadership Institutions to serve as models for the future of undergraduate education in the United States.

In March 2006 the WPI started a theoretical journal named Besooye Socialism ( in Persian: Toward Socialism ).

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

Part of the information on Electoral Systems offered by the World Policy Institute ( WPI )' s Project for Global Democracy & Human Rights

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 ).

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

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.

MQPs are often funded by either WPI or external corporations.

* Quadfest-The largest event held on campus by the WPI Social Committee ( SocComm ).

Events include musical acts, movies, and special booths created by WPI clubs and organizations.

from WPI, the AeA Inventor Award, the Vladimir Karapetoff Outstanding Technical Achievement Award of Eta Kappa Nu, and the 1991 National Medal of Technology by President George H. W.

They claim to be closer to the ideas of Mansoor Hekmat, though this is denied by the leadership of the WPI, who declared themselves to be the real followers of Hekmat's ideas.

* Iskra, a Persian paper published by the WPI Kurdistan Committee.

The Indian Wholesale Price Index ( WPI ) was first published in 1902, and was used by policy makers until it was replaced by the Producer Price Index ( PPI ) in 1978.

One faction, led by Monidranarayan Basu, retained the name WPI.

MassBalance is an edutainment computer game project done by the WPI Game Development Club in conjunction with the Boston Globe and Massachusetts Senator Richard T. Moore's office.

Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPI ( Mass Academy / MAMS / MAMAS ) was founded in 1992 by the Massachusetts State Legislature as a public magnet school to serve academically advanced youth in grades eleven and twelve in math, science, and technology.

Because of the association with WPI, Mass Academy students enjoy many amenities offered by WPI.

It wasn't long before the Mountain Inn and Conference Center was completed ( December 1980 ), allowing the resort, now owned and managed by Wintergreen Partners, Inc. ( WPI ), to host conferences and meetings, expand its target markets, and begin the trend of becoming a year-round vacation destination

Also, in 2010, WPI undergraduate major IMGD ranked 7th out of hundreds of universities in Top Undergraduate Game Design Programs according to The Princeton Review.