Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, founded in 1865 as one of the first engineering and technology universities in the United States and classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.伍斯特理工学院（Worcester Polytechnic Institute，简称 WPI）是位于美国马萨诸塞州伍斯特的私立研究型大学，1865 年创办，是美国最早的一批工程与技术大学之一，被归入 R1 级博士大学（研究活动极高）。

It was created by the self-made tinware manufacturer John Boynton and the wire mill owner Ichabod Washburn, and opened on 11 November 1868 under its charter name, the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science.该校由白手起家的锡器制造商约翰·博因顿与钢丝厂厂主伊卡博德·沃什伯恩共同创办，1868 年 11 月 11 日以法定名称「伍斯特县工业科学免费学院」开学。

Its defining feature is project-based learning, adopted in 1970 as the core of the WPI Plan, and its Global Projects Program sends more engineering students abroad than any other college or university in the United States.该校最鲜明的特色是以项目为核心的教学，1970 年「WPI 计划」将其确立为课程主轴，其全球项目计划派往海外做工程的学生多于美国任何一所高校。

History

• John Boynton, a tinware manufacturer who rose from peddling to owning factories, wanted a school that would elevate the social position of the mechanic and the manufacturer without necessarily teaching the skills of either trade.博因顿由走街串巷的锡器小贩做到工厂主，他想要的学校是提高技工与制造商社会地位之地，未必传授某一门手艺本身。

• Ichabod Washburn, owner of what was then the world's largest wire mill, argued instead for teaching technical skills through a sophisticated apprenticeship approach, and the two visions had to be reconciled inside one institution.沃什伯恩拥有当时世界最大的钢丝工厂，主张以精细的学徒制传授技术，两人的办学设想最终须在同一所学校里调和。

• Boynton consulted the pastor Seth Sweetser on how to realize his vision and found that Washburn had independently asked the same man for advice, so Sweetser drafted the letter proposing a liberal free school of industrial science in Worcester.博因顿就办学设想征询牧师塞斯·斯威特瑟，才发现沃什伯恩也曾单独向同一人请教，于是斯威特瑟执笔起草信件，提议在伍斯特创办一所开放的工业科学免费学校，并召集支持者开会。

• After the first meeting the Worcester Palladium published a notice from a gentleman who withheld his name, offering a fund of $100,000 to establish a scientific school in Worcester if the citizens furnished the land and buildings.首次聚会之后，《伍斯特帕拉狄乌姆报》刊登了一位不愿具名绅士的公告，愿捐资 10 万美元在伍斯特设立科学学校，条件是市民提供土地与校舍。

• In answer to that anonymous appeal, more than 225 Worcester citizens and the workers at 20 of the city's factories and machine shops contributed to building the original structure on Boynton Hill.为回应这一匿名倡议，225 名以上伍斯特市民以及本市 20 家工厂与机器作坊的工人共同出资，建成博因特山上的首座建筑。

• Stephen Salisbury II, an influential merchant, added funding and land grants and then served as the first president of the institute's board of directors, while his heir Stephen Salisbury III later gave the parkland beside the campus.有影响力的商人斯蒂芬·索尔兹伯里二世追加捐款与划地，并出任学院董事会首任主席，其后嗣斯蒂芬·索尔兹伯里三世日后又捐出校园旁的公园用地。

• On 10 May 1865, after approval by the House and Senate of the commonwealth, the secretary of the commonwealth recorded the institute as a legal corporation, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute came into formal existence.1865 年 5 月 10 日，经马萨诸塞州参众两院通过，州务卿将学院登记为法人团体，伍斯特理工学院自此正式存在。

• Both founders died before the college opened, and on 11 November 1868 Charles O. Thompson, the first president of the institute, inaugurated the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science with its two original buildings.两位创办人均在开学前去世，1868 年 11 月 11 日首任校长查尔斯·O·汤普森为「伍斯特县工业科学免费学院」及最初两座建筑举行落成典礼。

• Thompson led the young institute through its early years, and through the early twentieth century WPI kept expanding its campus and its programs, eventually adding graduate studies and a course of instruction in electrical engineering.汤普森主持学院早期事务，二十世纪上半叶校园与学科持续扩展，先后增设研究生教育与电机工程方向的教学。

• During the Second World War WPI offered defense engineering courses for the armed services and was chosen as one of the colleges to direct the V-12 Navy College Training Program for officer candidates.第二次世界大战期间，伍斯特理工为军方开设国防工程课程，并入选为海军 V-12 大学培训计划承办院校之一，培养军官候选人。

• In the decades after 1945 the institute suffered from the absence of a unified library system, poorly maintained buildings, and weak national recognition, conditions that its later presidents made their priority to reverse.1945 年之后的数十年间，学院缺乏统一的图书馆体系，建筑失修，全国声誉有限，这些短板成为后几任校长优先整治的对象。

• Growth under the presidency of Arthur Bronwell set the stage for Harry P. Storke, who led WPI from 1962 to 1969 and presided over the most consequential redesign of its curriculum.亚瑟·布朗韦尔任内已见增长，哈里·P·斯托克于 1962 至 1969 年接任校长，主持了该校影响最深的一次课程体系改造。

• Storke's administration launched a capital campaign that produced the George C. Gordon Library opened in 1967, new residence halls, an auditorium, and a modern chemistry building.斯托克任内发起筹款运动，成果包括 1967 年开放的乔治·C·戈登图书馆、新建宿舍、一座礼堂以及一栋现代化化学楼。

• The redesigned curriculum became known as the WPI Plan, established in 1970, calling for three required projects and rebuilding the program around how a student actually learns rather than how courses are parcelled out.改造后的课程被称为「WPI 计划」，1970 年确立，要求学生完成三个必修项目，并围绕「学生究竟如何学习」而非课程切分方式重新组织培养方案。

• Under the same administration women were first allowed to enter Worcester Polytechnic Institute in February 1968, ending a century of all-male undergraduate instruction at the hilltop school.同一任期内，伍斯特理工于 1968 年 2 月首次招收女生，结束了这所山头学校百年只招男本科生的历史。

• Through the six months from July 2021 to January 2022 seven WPI undergraduate and graduate students died, drawing local and national news coverage, with five deaths confirmed or apparent suicides and two occurring before the academic year.2021 年 7 月至 2022 年 1 月的半年内，7 名伍斯特理工本科生与研究生离世，引发当地与全国媒体报道，其中 5 例为已确认或疑似自杀，2 例发生在学年开始之前。

• After the third death in September 2021 the university set up an emergency mental health task force and requested an independent review by the nearby Riverside Trauma Center.2021 年 9 月第三起事件之后，校方成立紧急心理健康工作组，并邀请邻近的里弗赛德创伤中心作独立评估。

• In 2022, following the dissolution of that task force, WPI announced the creation of a new Center for Well-Being to coordinate student health and support services.2022 年工作组解散后，伍斯特理工宣布新建福祉中心，统筹学生健康与支持服务。

• In 2025 the university was classified as a Research 1 institution for very high research spending and doctorate production, the tier that groups the most research-active doctoral universities in the United States.2025 年该校被评为 Research 1 级，理由是科研经费与博士产出均属极高，这一分级汇集美国研究活动最活跃的博士授予大学。

• Trustees adopted a 2017 policy that all new buildings be capable of receiving LEED certification, and in 2024 the university completed a campus framework plan drawn up with the planning and architecture firm Ayers Saint Gross.董事会 2017 年通过政策，要求新建建筑须具备取得 LEED 认证的条件，2024 年又与规划建筑事务所 Ayers Saint Gross 合作完成校园总体框架规划。

Academics

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute reports 14 academic departments offering more than 50 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs across engineering, the sciences, management, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities.伍斯特理工设 14 个学术院系，开设 50 余个学士、硕士与博士项目，覆盖工程、理科、管理、社会科学与人文艺术。

• Its teaching is grouped into four schools, the School of Engineering, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Business School, and the Global School, an arrangement that gathers the department programs under broad disciplinary roofs.教学单位归为四所学院，即工程学院、艺术与科学学院、商学院与全球学院，使各院系项目分属若干宽口径的学科板块。

• The curriculum is built on project-based learning, an emphasis fixed in 1970 as part of the WPI Plan, which also requires every undergraduate to complete three substantial projects before graduating.课程建立在项目式学习之上，这一取向 1970 年随「WPI 计划」确立，该计划同时要求每位本科生在毕业前完成三个分量十足的项目。

• Instead of semesters WPI runs seven-week terms labeled A through D, with optional summer E terms in two sessions, so students normally take three courses per term and can finish a full year of chemistry, physics, or mathematics in a single semester's worth of time.伍斯特理工不用学期制而实行 7 周学段，依次标作 A 至 D，夏季另有两场可选的 E 学段，学生每学段通常选 3 门课，因而能在相当于一学期的时间里读完高中之后一整年的化学、物理或数学课程。

• Unlike many universities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute sets no required academic prerequisites for its courses, and the graduate calendar mixes conventional two-semester classes with the traditional seven-week format.与多数大学不同，该校课程不设硬性先修要求，研究生院校历则把常规两学期制课程与传统 7 周制课程混编。

• The Interactive Qualifying Project, or IQP, is defined as a project relating technology and science to society or human needs, ranging from improving high school science teaching to redesigning an irrigation system in Thailand.交互资格项目（IQP）被界定为把技术与科学同社会或人的需求联系起来的项目，题目从改进高中科学教学到重新设计泰国的灌溉系统不等。

• The Major Qualifying Project (MQP) tests knowledge in a student's own field and resembles a senior thesis built on independent research or design, often funded by the university or by outside corporations.主修资格项目（MQP）考查学生本专业的知识掌握，形同基于独立研究或设计的毕业论文，经费常来自校方或外部企业。

• Recent MQP topics recorded at WPI include a life-support module for the MIR 2 space station, a study of stress and nicotine effects on ADHD, the design of a research rocket, a mathematical viscoelastic cell motility model, liquid-crystal work using atomic force microscopy, and polymers for medicine delivery.近年完成的 MQP 题目包括 MIR 2 空间站生命保障舱段设计、压力与尼古丁对多动症影响的研究、科研火箭设计、黏弹性细胞运动的数学模型、用原子力显微镜开展的液晶实验以及给药高分子材料设计。

• Through the Global Projects Program more than 60 percent of WPI students complete at least one required project at an off-campus Project Center, and by the 2019 to 2020 academic year the network held over 50 centers on six continents.借由全球项目计划，超过 60% 的学生在校外项目中心完成至少一个必修项目，到 2019 至 2020 学年该项目中心网络已在六大洲设有 50 余处。

• WPI created and maintains WPILib, the software library and documentation used to program and control robots in the FIRST Robotics Competition and the FIRST Tech Challenge, supporting Java, C++, and Python.伍斯特理工开发并维护 WPILib，这是 FIRST 机器人竞赛与 FIRST 科技挑战赛为机器人编程与控制所用的软件库及文档，支持 Java、C++ 与 Python 三种语言。

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education, the regional body that also accredits nearby Clark University and other Massachusetts colleges.该校由新英格兰高等教育委员会认证，这一地区性认证机构同时认证邻近的克拉克大学及马萨诸塞州其他院校。

• Research facilities away from the hill concentrate on robotics engineering, life sciences and bioengineering, biomanufacturing, fire protection engineering, and business, housed in laboratories at 50, 60, and 85 Prescott Street.校外的科研设施集中于机器人工程、生命科学与生物医学工程、生物制造、消防工程与商科，分布在「Prescott 街」50 号、60 号与 85 号的实验楼内。

• Graduate education runs alongside the undergraduate project system, with master's and doctoral programs in engineering and science fields and a part-time MBA that was placed first in the nation by Businessweek in 2013.研究生教育与本科项目体系并行，工程与理科设有硕士和博士项目，其在职工商管理硕士项目在 2013 年被《商业周刊》评为全美第一。

• Pedagogically the interactive project is meant to emphasize team-based work and to introduce a real-world responsibility absent from courses, and the university records that many such projects have made a significant impact on the communities where they were carried out.在教学设计上，交互项目重在强调团队协作，并引入课堂所缺的真实世界责任，校方记录显示许多此类项目对承接社区产生了实质影响。

• The founding division of labor, scientific theory taught in Boynton Hall and manufacturing practice applied in the Washburn Shops since 1868, survives in a syllabus that pairs lecture courses with laboratory, shop, and project work across the whole degree.自 1868 年起在博因顿楼讲授科学理论、在沃什伯恩车间施行制造实习的创校分工，延续为贯穿整个学位、把课堂讲授与实验、车间和项目并置的课程安排。

Campus

• The campus occupies roughly 95 acres, or 38 hectares, on and around Boynton Hill in Worcester, with the main academic core centered at 100 Institute Road and neighboring cultural institutions including the Worcester Art Museum and the American Antiquarian Society.校园约 95 英亩（38 公顷），坐落并环绕伍斯特的博因特山，学术核心区以「100 Institute Road」为中心，邻近的机构包括伍斯特艺术博物馆与美国古文物学会。

• Immediately north of the main campus lies the 44.9-acre Institute Park, a municipal park historically tied to the school, formed from the former farm and pasture that Stephen Salisbury III donated to the city in 1887 as open space for students and residents.主校区正北是 44.9 英亩的学院公园，这座市立公园与学校渊源深厚，由斯蒂芬·索尔兹伯里三世把旧农场与牧场于 1887 年捐给市政，作为学生与市民的开放空间。

• Boynton Hall and the Washburn Shops, both built in 1868 on land donated by Stephen Salisbury II, were meant to embody the founding ideals, theory taught in Boynton and manufacturing practised in Washburn, and their clock tower and arm-and-hammer weathervane became the school's Two Towers. Boynton Hall, still the principal administration building housing the president's and provost's offices, was designed by the Worcester architects Stephen C. Earle and James E. Fuller, while the Second Empire brick Washburn Shops with slate mansard roofs, designed by Elbridge Boyden, remains in use for engineering teaching.博因顿楼与沃什伯恩车间同建于 1868 年，用地由斯蒂芬·索尔兹伯里二世捐出，二者体现创校理想，前者讲授科学理论、后者进行制造实习，其钟楼与挥锤臂风向标遂成该校「双塔」标志，博因顿楼如今仍是首要行政楼、校长与教务长办公室所在，由伍斯特建筑师斯蒂芬·C·厄尔与詹姆斯·E·富勒设计，沃什伯恩车间为第二帝国风格砖楼、覆石板曼萨德屋顶，出自埃尔布里奇·博伊登之手，至今仍用于工程教学。

• The quadrangle serves student recreation and major events such as commencement, homecoming, and alumni gatherings, and its Centennial Walkway of brick paths, laid in 1991 to mark the centennial of the WPI Alumni Association, was renovated in 2013 for drainage, lighting, circulation, and accessibility. Two bronze statues of the mascot Gompei mark the grounds, the Proud Goat overlooking the Quad and the Charging Goat standing outside the Sports and Recreation Center, while academic buildings of the historic core include Salisbury Laboratories, opened in 1889 and enabling the first formal library space in Boynton Hall, Atwater Kent Laboratories, Stratton Hall, Olin Hall, Goddard Hall, Fuller Laboratories, Kaven Hall, and Higgins Laboratories.方庭用于学生活动与毕业典礼、返校节、校友聚会等重大事项，园内砖砌步道「百年步道」于 1991 年铺设以纪念校友会成立百年，2013 年翻新以改善排水、照明、人流与无障碍通行，吉祥物「刚培」的两尊铜像分立校园，「骄傲山羊」俯瞰方庭、「冲锋山羊」立于体育运动中心门外，历史核心区的教学楼包括 1889 年启用并使博因顿楼得以设立首个正式馆藏阅览空间的索尔兹伯里实验楼，以及阿特沃特·肯特实验楼、斯特拉顿楼、奥林楼、戈达德楼、富勒实验楼、凯文楼与希金斯实验楼。

• Alden Memorial was built in 1940 with funding from the George I. Alden Trust as WPI's first auditorium and renovated in 1992 into a performing-arts centre, the George C. Gordon Library opened in 1967, and the Earle Campus Bridge, raised for the institute's 75th anniversary, links Boynton Hall to Alden Memorial.奥尔登纪念堂 1940 年由乔治·I·奥尔登信托捐资建成，是该校第一座礼堂，1992 年改建为表演艺术中心，乔治·C·戈登图书馆 1967 年开放，为学院 75 周年校庆架设的厄尔校园桥把博因顿楼与纪念堂相连。

• On the northern edge stands Higgins House, a Tudor Revival mansion commissioned by the alumnus Aldus Chapin Higgins, designed by Grosvenor Atterbury and completed in 1923, bequeathed to WPI in 1971, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and now used for alumni functions with formal gardens above Institute Park.校园北缘的希金斯宅邸是校友奥尔达斯·查平·希金斯委托、格罗夫纳·阿特伯里设计的都铎复兴风格宅第，1923 年落成，1971 年遗赠校方，1980 年列入国家史迹名录，如今用作校友活动场所，庭园俯瞰学院公园。

• Newer construction includes the Rubin Campus Center opened in 2001, the Innovation Studio and Messenger Hall complex of 2018, and Unity Hall, a five-story academic and student-services building by Gensler that opened in 2022 on the eastern slope of Boynton Hill, several of the LEED-certified buildings listed by the university.较新的建筑包括 2001 年开放的罗宾学生中心、2018 年落成的创新工坊与梅辛杰楼，以及 2022 年在博因特山东坡启用的五层教学与学生服务楼团结楼，后者列在校方公布的 LEED 认证建筑名单之中。

• Athletic facilities center on the 145,000-square-foot LEED-certified Sports and Recreation Center dedicated in 2012, with a competition swimming pool, four-court gymnasium, indoor running track, rowing tanks, fitness rooms, and racquet courts, next to the 3,000-seat Harrington Auditorium of 1968 and the outdoor H. Carr Field at Alumni Stadium and Norcross Track.体育设施以 2012 年落成、面积 145000 平方英尺的 LEED 认证体育运动中心为核心，内设竞赛泳池、四片场地体育馆、室内跑道、划船水槽、健身区与持拍场地，毗邻 1968 年建成的 3000 座哈灵顿礼堂，室外则有校友球场内的「H. Carr Field」与诺克罗斯跑道。

• Off campus, Gateway Park is an 11-acre mixed-use research and development district created with the Worcester Business Development Corporation on a former brownfield near downtown, whose first major university building, the Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, opened in 2007 and which WPI added to its footprint in 2010, while WPI Seaport operates at 303 Congress Street in Boston's Seaport District.校外方面，「Gateway Park」是 11 英亩的科研与商务混合开发片区，由校方与伍斯特商业发展公司在市中心旧址棕地上共建，片区内首座大学建筑生命科学与生物医学工程中心于 2007 年开放，2010 年并入校园版图，另有伍斯特理工海港中心设于波士顿海港区的「303 Congress Street」。

• Undergraduate housing mixes traditional halls, apartment buildings, townhouses, and small residential houses, with Sanford Riley Hall completed in 1927 as the first purpose-built residence and now holding the Little Theatre and Riley Commons, plus Daniels, Founders, Institute, Messenger, Morgan, and the Stoddard Complex. Apartment-style options include East Hall on the lower campus for about 230 upper-class students and Faraday Hall near Grove and Lancaster streets for roughly 260, while South Village, created after the 2021 closure of neighbouring Becker College, comprises nine historic houses on William, Sever, Cedar, Fruit, Marston, Oak, and West streets converted in 2021 and 2022.本科生住宿兼有传统宿舍楼、公寓楼、联排屋与小型住宅，1927 年竣工的桑福德·赖利楼是首座专建宿舍，现内设小剧场与赖利公共区，另有丹尼尔斯、奠基者、学院、梅辛杰、摩根等楼及斯托达德宿舍群，公寓式住宿包括山下校区约容 230 名高年级学生的东楼，以及「Grove 街」与「Lancaster 街」附近约容 260 人的法拉第楼，2021 年邻近的贝克尔学院停办后新辟的南村由「William、Sever、Cedar、Fruit、Marston、Oak、West」七条街上的 9 栋老宅改造而来，于 2021 与 2022 年陆续投用。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Worcester Polytechnic Institute is placed in the 901-950 band, sharing that range with several other institutions.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，伍斯特理工学院位列第 901-950 区间，与同档多所高校并列。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 WPI is ranked in the 701-800 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it stands at number 1449.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 701-800 区间，在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中列第 1449 位。

• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 published by ShanghaiRanking, Worcester Polytechnic Institute appears in the 901-1000 band of the main 1000-place list.在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，伍斯特理工位于主榜 1000 所之列的第 901-1000 区间。

• OpenAlex records 24,084 scholarly works and 1,271,473 citations attributed to the institute, figures consistent with its R1 classification for very high research activity.OpenAlex 收录该校署名的学术成果 24084 项、被引 1271473 次，与其 R1 级极高研究活动的分类相称。

• U.S. News & World Report's 2027 Best Colleges review placed WPI tied for 73rd among national universities, tied at 63rd for Most Innovative Schools, 77th for Best Value Schools, and tied for 291st for Top Performers on Social Mobility.《美国新闻与世界报道》2027 年版《最佳大学》把伍斯特理工列为全美综合性大学并列第 73、最具创新力并列第 63、最佳价值第 77、社会流动性最佳表现并列第 291。

• On the subject level, Businessweek ranked the WPI part-time Master of Business Administration program number one in the United States in 2013 and also first for student satisfaction in that program.就学科维度而言，《商业周刊》2013 年将伍斯特理工的在职工商管理硕士项目评为全美第一，该项目在学生满意度上同样名列第一。

• Forbes placed Worcester Polytechnic Institute at 93rd in its August 2019 ranking of America's Top Colleges, a consumer-centric list whose director Caroline Howard said judged 650 undergraduate institutions on educational quality and graduates' financial well-being, and U.S. News rated the school 18th nationally for return on investment in 2025.《福布斯》2019 年 8 月的美国顶尖大学榜把该校列在第 93 位，该榜以消费者视角为主，编辑运营总监卡罗琳·霍华德称其对 650 所本科院校的评价只看教育质量、就读体验与毕业生收入与财务状况，2025 年《美国新闻与世界报道》又将其投资回报排名列全美第 18。

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute earned a gold rating in 2017 from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System for its campus sustainability work, and its 2017 building policy pushed later LEED-certified projects such as the Bartlett Center, East Hall, Faraday Hall, and Unity Hall.该校在 2017 年获可持续发展追踪评估与评级体系（STARS）金奖认证其校园可持续工作，同年出台的绿色建筑政策推动了巴特利特中心、东楼、法拉第楼、团结楼等后续 LEED 认证项目。

• Across the four global league tables checked for 2026 and 2027 Worcester Polytechnic Institute never enters the world top 500, its best placing being the 701-800 band in the Times Higher Education ranking, while its tied 73rd place among United States national universities sits far higher in relative terms.就 2026 与 2027 年核实的四张世界榜单而言，伍斯特理工均未进入全球前 500，位次最高的是泰晤士高等教育的 701-800 区间，而同校在美国国内综合性大学榜上的并列第 73 位则明显更靠前。

• The sources examined name no Nobel Prize, Turing Award, or Fields Medal laureate among WPI's founders, faculty, or alumni, so the institute's hard honour count rests instead on its research classification and national programme rankings.所依据的资料未在伍斯特理工的创办人、教师或校友中点名任何诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，因此其硬荣誉记录只能落在研究分级与全美项目排名上。

Student life

• The WPI Marching and Pep Band is a student-run organization of roughly 100 members and remains one of the largest performing groups on the hilltop campus.伍斯特理工行进与助威队是约 100 人的学生自组织，仍是这座山头校园规模最大的演出团体之一。

• Weekend Movies screens a new film every Saturday and Sunday in Fuller Laboratories, and WPI is one of the few universities able to show both 35 mm and 70 mm film in the same hall.周末电影每周六、周日在富勒实验楼放映一部新片，伍斯特理工是少数能在同一放映厅兼映 35 毫米与 70 毫米胶片的高校之一。

• The Winter Ball is a ballroom dance social hosted by the university's Ballroom Dance Team in Alden Memorial, where couples in evening wear learn and dance the waltz, foxtrot, cha-cha, and rumba.冬季舞会由校内国标舞队在奥尔登纪念堂主办，穿晚装的搭档们在会上学习并跳华尔兹、狐步、恰恰与伦巴。

• WPI fields 20 varsity teams that compete intercollegiately at the NCAA Division III level in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference, the New England Wrestling Association, and the Eastern College Athletic Conference.伍斯特理工派出 20 支校队，在大学体育协会第三级别参赛，分属新英格兰女子与男子运动联盟、新英格兰摔跤协会与东部大学体育协会。

• The goat mascot dates to spring 1891, when the class of 1893 stole a goat and turned it into a mascot tended by Gumpei Kuwada, a Japanese-born student who was the only one with the initials G. K. needed for the post of goat keeper.山羊吉祥物始于 1891 年春，1893 届学生偷来一头山羊奉为吉祥物，交由日本留学生库瓦达·刚培照看，只因姓名首字母 G. K. 正合「守羊人」一职。

• Tech News is the student newspaper published weekly on Tuesdays, known earlier as The Towers and often issued biweekly before its 2018 renaming, and it now appears in print and online alongside the official campus titles WPI Today and WPI Journal.《技术新闻》是每周二出版的学生报纸，早先用名《双塔》，曾隔周发行，2018 年改名后纸质与网络版并行，与官方刊物《WPI 今日》《WPI 杂志》同列校园出版物。

• The WPI Wireless Association, licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as W1YK, is regarded as the first college amateur radio club to be on the air, operating for decades from the rooftop shack of Salisbury Laboratories and running public repeaters such as the Higgins Repeater around Worcester.伍斯特理工无线电协会持有联邦通信委员会核配的呼号 W1YK，被认为是首个开播的大学业余无线电社团，数十年来在索尔兹伯里实验楼楼顶机房运转，并在伍斯特周边维护希金斯中继台等公共中继。

• Club members hold licences from Technician through the highest Amateur Extra class and take part each year in the American Radio Relay League Sweepstakes including the November contest, while on campus the Little Theatre in Sanford Riley Hall anchors student stage productions.社团成员执照等级从技术员到最高的业余特级不等，每年参加美国无线电中继联盟举办的扫描赛，十一月大赛即是其中之一，校内则由桑福德·赖利楼的小剧场支撑学生戏剧演出。

• The seven-week term calendar shapes student life as much as academics, with optional E terms allowing a senior to graduate early or a first-year to make up a course, and the residence halls of South Village keeping upper-class students within walking distance of the quadrangle.7 周学段的校历同样形塑校园生活，可选的 E 学段让高年级生提前毕业或让新生补修课程，南村宿舍则把高年级学生留在方庭步行可达之处。

Notable people

• John Boynton, the tinware manufacturer who conceived the school, and Ichabod Washburn, whose wire fortune supplied its first workshops, both died before Worcester Polytechnic Institute opened its doors in 1868.构想办学的锡器制造商约翰·博因顿与以钢丝财富提供首批实习车间的伊卡博德·沃什伯恩，均在 1868 年开学前离世。

• Seth Sweetser, the pastor who drafted the founding letter and called the first meeting of supporters, shaped the school's founding language of a free institute of industrial science open to the city's mechanics.牧师塞斯·斯威特瑟执笔创办信件并召集首次支持者聚会，奠定了这所面向本市技工、免费开放的工业科学学院的创校措辞。

• Charles O. Thompson became the first president of the institute and inaugurated it on 11 November 1868, and Stephen Salisbury II, the merchant who donated land and money, served as the first president of its board of directors.查尔斯·O·汤普森出任学院首任校长并于 1868 年 11 月 11 日开学主礼，捐地捐款的商人斯蒂芬·索尔兹伯里二世则为首任董事会主席。

• Harry P. Storke, president from 1962 to 1969, laid the ground for the WPI Plan established in 1970, for the capital campaign that built the George C. Gordon Library, and for the admission of women in February 1968.哈里·P·斯托克 1962 至 1969 年任校长，为 1970 年确立的「WPI 计划」、建成乔治·C·戈登图书馆的筹款以及 1968 年 2 月开放女生入学奠定了基础。

• Robert Hutchings Goddard, the pioneer of liquid-fuel rocketry who took his physics degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1908 and later earned his doctorate at Clark University, is the school's best-known alumnus, commemorated in Goddard Hall.液体燃料火箭先驱罗伯特·哈钦斯·戈达德 1908 年在伍斯特理工获物理学学士学位，后入克拉克大学取得博士学位，是该校最知名的校友，戈达德楼即以其名命名。

• Aldus Chapin Higgins, a WPI alumnus, commissioned the Tudor Revival Higgins House completed in 1923 and left it to the institute, while the George I. Alden Trust funded Alden Memorial, the campus's first auditorium, in 1940.校友奥尔达斯·查平·希金斯委托兴建 1923 年落成的希金斯宅邸并遗赠学院，乔治·I·奥尔登信托则于 1940 年出资建成校内首座礼堂奥尔登纪念堂。

• George C. Gordon lent his name to the library opened in 1967, and the builders of the founding core included the architects Stephen C. Earle and James E. Fuller for Boynton Hall and Elbridge Boyden for the Washburn Shops.1967 年开放的图书馆以乔治·C·戈登命名，创校核心建筑的设计者包括博因顿楼的斯蒂芬·C·厄尔与詹姆斯·E·富勒，以及沃什伯恩车间的埃尔布里奇·博伊登。

• Grosvenor Atterbury designed Higgins House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and Stephen Salisbury III gave the Institute Park farmland to the city of Worcester in 1887, leaving the school its oldest open space.格罗夫纳·阿特伯里设计了 1980 年列入国家史迹名录的希金斯宅邸，斯蒂芬·索尔兹伯里三世于 1887 年将学院公园的农田捐给伍斯特市，为学校留下最古老的开放绿地。

• Gumpei Kuwada, the Japanese-born student who kept the goat stolen in 1891, gave the university its enduring mascot name, Gompei the Goat, still represented by bronze statues on the quad and by the charging goat outside the Sports and Recreation Center.日本留学生库瓦达·刚培照看 1891 年被偷来的山羊，学校因此得到沿用至今的吉祥物名字「山羊刚培」，方庭铜像与体育运动中心门外的冲锋山羊仍以其形象呈现。