The Industrial Mathematics Project for High School Students was founded in 2000 on a grant from the National Science Foundation. The GE Foundation began funding the Math in Industries Institute in 2002. There are a number of people who have contributed to the success of both the Industrial Mathematics Project and the Math in Industries Institute:
Project Guides and Teachers
| P. Brady Townsend, Wachusett Regional High School, Holden, MA Clif Wheeler, Wachusett Regional High School, Holden, MA Laura Cleary, Wachusett Regional High School, Holden, MA Laura Toomey, Athol High School, Athol, MA Joanna Begin, Arlington High School, Arlington, MA Chris Benestad, St. John’s High School, Shrewsbury, MA Suzanne Weekes, WPI Carlos Moraels, WPI Luis Roman, WPI Bogdan Doytchinov, WPI William Farr, WPI John Goulet, WPI Peter Christopher, WPI Jayson Wilbur, WPI |
High School Students
from Wachusett Regional High School
| Chris Mavricos Dasha Cherepennikova Mike Monfreda Nicolette Schlichting Lyndsay Henrickson Kelly Nummelin |
Dan Wiechec Joe Politz Dan Hunt Chris McSorley Charles Furse |
Presenters
| Jane Oates, Senior Education Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy Ed Augustus, Chief of Staff for Congressman James McGovern John F. Carney, III, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, WPI Bob LaBarre, United Technologies Research Center Stephanie Blaisdell, Director of Diversity and Women’s Programs, WPI Solomon Garfunkel, Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications Michele Van Leer, John Hancock Insurance Bruce Kearnan, John Hancock Insurance Kirk Jordan, IBM Derek Kane, DEKA Research and Development Denise Bowden, Higgins Middle School, Peabody, Massachusetts Robert Michaud, New Frontier Advisors Al Cuoco, Education Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts Sheila Tobias, author |
General Electric
| Jennifer Wyse, GE Bill Fitzgerald, GE Dante DiBattista, GE Lance F. Hall, GE Robert Casagrande, GE |
Organizers
| Art Heinricher, Director of CIMS Bogdan Vernescu, Math Department Head |
Planning Committee
| Jonathan Abraham, WPI Terry Schmidt, WPI Lance Schchterle, Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs, WPI Joshua Abrams, Educational Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts |
Web Design
| P. Brady Townsend, Original Site Design (June 2004) Daniel Smaltz, Revised Site Design (June 2006) |