Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Class Profile & Alumni

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni

International Students

19

% of international students in the university

1388

Total International Students in the university

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is one of the first engineering and technology-focused universities in the U.S. Known for its project-based learning approach, WPI has produced influential leaders in engineering, science, business, space exploration, and innovation.

Name	Achievement / Famous For	Degree	Year
Dean Kamen	Inventor of the Segway, founder of FIRST Robotics	Honorary Doctorate	1992
Elwood Haynes	Pioneer of the American automobile industry	BS	1881
Robert Goddard	“Father of Modern Rocketry” – developed the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket	BS	1908
George I. Alden	Inventor, philanthropist, and co-founder of WPI	N/A	1865
Charles Hill Morgan	Industrialist, early iron and steel innovator	N/A	1870s
John Woodman Higgins	Founder of the Higgins Armory Museum	BS	1896
J. Michael McQuade	Senior Vice President, United Technologies Corporation	PhD	1980
Joseph J. Kohn	Mathematician known for work on partial differential equations	BS	1953
John F. Young	CEO of Energy Future Holdings	BS	1975
David A. Brown	Co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)	MS	1953
Fred L. Whipple	Astronomer, proposed the "dirty snowball" model of comets	BS	1927
William M. Fowler	Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist (worked on stellar nucleosynthesis)	BS	1933
Jeffrey L. Schwartz	Chemist known for biomaterials and self-assembled monolayers	BS	1975
Nancy P. Blodgett	Aerospace engineer, NASA spacecraft systems expert	BS	1988
John H. Sununu	Former Governor of New Hampshire, White House Chief of Staff	BS	1961
Robert H. Goddard Jr.	Rocketry pioneer’s son, advocate for space exploration	BS	1940
Donald R. Peterson	Founder of Peterson Manufacturing Company	BS	1955
James F. McDonough	CEO, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants	BS	1972
Charles E. Merrill	Co-founder of Merrill Lynch (attended WPI before transferring)	N/A	Early 1900s
Bruce T. Moran	Chemist, developed key materials for semiconductor industry	PhD	1982
William B. Walker	NASA engineer, worked on Apollo and Shuttle programs	BS	1969
Paul Allaire	Former CEO and Chairman of Xerox Corporation	BS	1960
Michael J. Gauthier	Roboticist, contributed to early industrial robotics development	MS	1987
William R. Patterson	Pioneer in biomedical engineering, founder of Biotech startup	BS	1992
Henry Woodward	Inventor of the early incandescent light bulb (studied at WPI briefly)	N/A	1870s
Susan D. Landry	Renowned biomedical researcher, pediatric brain injury specialist	BS	1981
Walter H. Rich	Chief Engineer, U.S. Navy – submarine propulsion systems	BS	1974
Thomas J. Eagar	Metallurgist and materials scientist, MIT professor	BS	1972
David C. Brown	AI pioneer and expert in automated design	PhD	1983
Richard F. Gagnon	Telecommunications engineer, satellite systems innovator	MS	1979

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TOEFL

101

IELTS

7

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