The Major Qualifying Project (MQP)

In keeping with WPI's focus on project based learning, the MQP forms an integral part of the MIS curriculum. The MQP is normally performed for a real business, and allows the student to apply the skills, methods, and knowledge obtained in their course work to the solution of a real business problem in the MIS area. Typical MQPs for MIS majors include:

B2B E-commerce applications
B2C E-commerce applications
design, development and networking of organizational database systems
decision support systems

Clients for MQPs have been companies of all sizes, in industries such as manufacturing, consulting, finance, the public sector, and university departments. Example of previous MQPs include:

General Electric: Wireless Networking on Shop Floor
Fidelity Investments: Evaluation and Application of Network Management Tools in a Large Distributed Computing Environment
Teradyne Corporation: Platform Migration - Text Files to Oracle Using Java
Allamerica Financial: Process Management Measurement System
Stratus Computer: Windows Performance Monitor
Fleet Bank: Graphic Modeling of Data Warehouse Metadata