Facilities & Equipment
From a gleaming new 71,000-square-foot campus center to an atomic force microscope that can see individual atoms on a material's surface, the WPI campus is chock full of equipment and facilities that will catch your eye and capture your imagination. Here are some highlights:
Information Technology
Hundreds of computers in open-access labs. Powerful Unix workstations. A high-speed network that reaches every building and residence hall. Extensive, roaming wireless coverage for working "unplugged." A Web-based information system. Just some of the reasons Yahoo Internet Life said WPI has one of America's most-wired campuses.
- Computer labs available 24/7
- High-speed network connections in all academic buildings and residence halls
- Multimedia classrooms and lecture halls
- Access to over 35,000 Web-based electronic journals and 39,000 electronic books through the library
- Access to more than 150 Web-based databases
- Extensive roaming wireless access
- One of only 200 universities connected to Internet2 (next-generation Internet)
- One of only six Access Grids nodes in New England (worldwide high-speed multimedia conferencing network)
Research Facilities Available for Student Projects Include...
- Aerospace laboratories
- Atomic Force Microscopes (2)
- Biomaterials Laboratory
- Bioprocess Laboratory
- Computer music labs
- Fire Science Laboratory
- SGI Supercomputer
- Research Compute Cluster
- Haas Technical Center (computer-controlled machining)
- Laser holography labs
- Medical imaging laboratories
- Satellite Navigation Laboratory
Last modified: July 10, 2007 15:55:56