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Jared Kepron
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Class of 2016
  • Standish, ME

Standish Resident Jared Kepron Receives Worcester Polytechnic Institute's 2016 Provost's MQP Award

2016 May 11

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Jared Kepron of Standish, Maine, a member of the class of 2016, has received the Provost's MQP (Major Qualifying Project) Award for the aerospace engneering department. Kepron was recognized for a project titled "Design and Test of a Radio-Frequency Electrothermal Thruster." The annual award recognizes the most outstanding MQPs completed by WPI students.

All WPI students complete two significant research projects, one in their major field and one at the intersection between science and technology and current societal issues. WPI believes that to become the best engineers and scientists, students should have a broad understanding of the cultural and social contexts of their fields, which will make them more effective and socially responsible practitioners and citizens.

The MQP, typically completed in the senior year, is a high-level design or research experience in the student's major field. In the engineering disciplines, many of these design projects are completed in small teams with a faculty advisor. In the sciences, many of these projects are completed by undergraduates working closely in the faculty advisor's research lab. Some MQPs are completed at off-campus project centers for external sponsors, often corporations.