Project-based Course Offerings
Get a jump start on your project work at WPI—and delve into issues of global importance—by taking a Great Problems Seminar (GPS). These popular interdisciplinary courses are offered exclusively for first-year students.
Each GPS consists of two linked courses that are taught by two professors from different disciplines. In the first term you will explore many facets of a great problem, such as air pollution, access to clean water, or disease control. In the second term you will work in a team to produce a solution and share it with the WPI community.
GPS topic examples include:
- Climate Change
- Extinction: Who will survive?
- Heal the World
- Humanitarian Engineering
- Ignorance is NOT Bliss
- Livable Cities
- Seeking Sustainability
- Power the World
- Recover, Reuse, Recycle
- Shelter the World
Learn more about these GPS courses. View a record of GPS course credit.
Meet our faculty.
GPS FacultyView the video below to hear first-hand from students about the value of the GPS experience.