Interactive Qualifying Project

The second project, called the interactive qualifying project (IQP), involved teams of i-A students applying technology to an interdisciplinary problem in society, usually addressing a significant human need. This project best reflected the Institute s motto. Lehr und Kunst (theory and practice). 

Some students complete their humanities and arts requirement at a project center, most frequently in the sophomore year and often in London in association with its Dickens Museum. The majority of participants, however, are completing their Interactive Qualifying Project, or IQP, in their junior year, while a smaller number (including some who have already been to project centers completing their earlier projects) complete their Major Qualifying Project (MQP) at a project center as seniors. All told, about half of all WPI undergraduates complete one or more of their required projects at the international project centers. 

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