Antje Harnisch, Assistant
Vice Provost of Research, and Yuxiang Liu, Associate Professor in Mechanical
Engineering, WPI said “Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has joined
CPACT to advance cutting-edge sensing and analytical techniques to benefit
industries and academia through mutually beneficial collaboration”.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), a global leader
in project-based learning, is a distinctive, top-tier technological university
founded in 1865. Based on its “very high research spending and doctorate
production,” WPI has been designated as an R1 research institution and joined
the ranks of the nation’s top-tier research institutions in a new
classification of the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), which recognizes WPI’s
commitment to excellence and high-impact innovation WPI supports a diverse
range of research institutes and centers and advances interdisciplinary research in the
key focus areas of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Advanced Sustainable
Materials and Manufacturing, AI, Data Science, and Robotics. WPI is proud to be
the first academic member of CPACT in the United States and looks forward to
collaborative opportunities with other members.