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====== Working @NEST ======

===== How to Apply =====

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==== For international students ====

Send us an updated CV, your transcripts, and a brief letter of motivation in which you explain why you want to work at NEST Lab. To work at NEST Lab, you need to go through the WPI Admissions process ([[https://www.wpi.edu/admissions/undergraduate|undergraduate]], [[https://www.wpi.edu/admissions/graduate|graduate]]). In your motivation letter, make sure you mention that you want to work at NEST Lab and motivate why.
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==== For WPI students ====

Send us an updated CV and your most recent unofficial transcripts. We'll set up a meeting to talk in person.
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===== WPI Major Qualifying Projects =====

==== Timeline ====
MQPs at NEST Lab are typically done between A Term and C Term. Students who are doing a double major may work also in D Term to finalize the project. We won't consider MQPs distributed across less than 3 terms.

==== Organization ====
The typical organization of an MQP at NEST Lab is as follows.

=== A Term ===
**Objectives:**
  * Produce a document that specifies the problem statement and the objectives of the MQP.
    * The objectives must be *measurable*
    * At the end of the project, you will be evaluated according to these objectives!
    * *You* set the objectives, after discussing with the advisors
  * (optional) Describe the preliminary design of your solution.
**Evaluation:**
  * General clarity of the document: structure, grammar, quality of the figures
  * Completeness of the citations to existing work

=== B Term ===
**Objectives:**
  * Complete the initial design
  * Implement the initial design
  * Identify the shortcoming of the design
  * Integrate your findings in the document produced in A-Term
**Evaluation:**
  * Depth of the design - did you try the first thing you thought?
  * Independence - did you propose your solution?
  * General clarity of the document: structure, grammar, quality of the figures
  * Completeness of the citations to existing work

=== C and D Term ===
**Objectives:**
  * Finalize the design
  * Implement the final design
  * Validate the final design
  * Identify the shortcoming of the final design
  * Integrate your findings in the document produced in B-Term
**Evaluation:**
  * Thoroughness of the validation - did you test your design in realistic conditions?
  * Adherence to the objectives formalized in A Term
  * General clarity of the document: structure, grammar, quality of the figures
  * Depth of "lessons learned" section - what did you learn from this project? how can it be improved by a future MQP team?