Smart Stats
- WPI has seven Fulbright Scholars on the faculty.
- 98% of the faculty have earned the Ph.D.
- 30% of WPI professors are fellows of national and international professional societies
Top Researchers As Well As Top Teachers
Just because our professors are great teachers, doesn't mean they aren't also preeminent scholars and researchers. Among our faculty members are 15 winners of the CAREER award, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious research honor for young faculty members. Here, undergraduate students even participate in research with faculty.
- Using sophisticated computer models, Malcolm Ray, Ralph H. White Family Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, conducts research designed to improve guardrail systems on highways, thereby reducing highway fatalities.
- Terri Camesano, assistant professor of chemical engineering, studies bacterial adhesion. Her work may produce biosensors that can detect the presence of biological agents intentionally released into the environment by terrorists.
- Joel Brattin, professor of English, is the president of The Dickens Society, an international organization, and the editor of a new edition of Dickens' last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend.
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