Biotechnology is booming in Massachusetts. With over 1,000 biotech companies calling Massachusetts home, the state is now the number one biotech hub in the world. According to MassBio, job growth within the life sciences industry is growing exponentially, with a 13.2% increase in 2021 alone. At the crossroads of research, education, and technology development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute is right at the heart of it all.
Whether you’re an employee looking to expand your skill set, a manager developing your team, or a company looking to enhance their device development capabilities, WPI is here to support your unique needs.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is the organizing principle at play for life sciences research, education, and technology development. Our dedicated research teams go beyond traditional academic department boundaries and coalesce around ideas, approaching complex problems from multiple perspectives to speed the pace of discovery.
Leveraging our direct-from-industry faculty, world-renowned and innovative lab space, and hands-on approach to course material, WPI is prepared to help you lead the way in the following areas:
Graduate Programs
At WPI, lifelong learning is an integral part of our educational philosophy.
Our extensive suite of graduate programs pulls from fields across science, engineering, and business. You will be welcomed into a strong, dynamic, and diverse community that encourages unique thoughts, dares you to ask bold questions, and provides you the opportunity and support to be a catalyst for change.
At WPI, we recognize—and appreciate—that every student is unique and at a different place in their career and life. That’s why we promote customization and flexibility with our graduate programs. Explore our 50+ programs offered both online and on campus.
Grad.wpi.edu
Industry Partnerships, Workforce Development, and Training
WPI provides dynamic learning opportunities so your company can gain a productive workforce, attract and retain top talent, and remain on the cutting edge of innovation. Invest in your company’s most important asset—your employees. By providing employees with continuous learning opportunities, your company will gain a more knowledgeable and productive workforce and attract and retain top talent.
Our expert instructors and experienced staff work with you to identify your team’s knowledge gaps, suggest opportunities for growth, and craft a customized curriculum that meets your learning needs and business goals.
https://www.wpi.edu/offices/external-relations/corporate-relations/employers-partners/corporate-education-workforce-development-programs
BETC
The Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center (BETC) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute provides customized training courses to meet your real-world training needs. The first of its kind in New England, our 10,000-square-foot, pilot-scale biomanufacturing facility located in the heart of Massachusetts, is where theory is put into practice and hands-on training fosters growth and (enables)creates bold innovators in industry.
Our laboratory space features individual rooms—including small-scale labs for upstream and downstream processing and a 200L pilot–scale lab—where you’ll have hours of hands-on training on bioprocessing equipment in a simulated cGMP environment. The BETC lab space mirrors a real-world bioprocessing environment where you can explore new processes, train on state-of-the-art equipment, take risks in a safe environment, try what-ifs, and fully master bioprocessing techniques in an environment that fosters your development.
Ranging from one-day trainings to in-depth, weeklong programs, the BETC provides a rich environment to (-where you’ll) expand your knowledge of bioprocessing and hone your hands-on techniques. Our goal: a skilled, confident workforce ready to be productive from day one.
Wp.wpi.edu/betc
PracticePoint
PracticePoint is WPI’s membership-based health research, (remove and) development, and testing facility—a place to advance health technology and launch better medical, cyber-physical systems. The facility is a resource for designing, prototyping, and evaluating everything from rehabilitative devices to surgical robotics by an associated consortium of academics, industry, healthcare professionals, and users/patients.
PracticePoint includes spaces that look and function like (-remove areas where) medical care facilities (-remove would take place, but) with the additional equipment to study how best to deliver that care: T3 Sigma Premier MRI, a fully functional operating room, ICU/NICU, MD office, fully instrumented living space, state-of-the-art motion capture lab - all co-located with advanced manufacturing capabilities. Our advanced manufacturing rooms include a wide array of 3D printing, CNC manufacturing, and electronics assembly and test capabilities. Here you can work on your health technology innovations and medical device development.
Practicepoint.wpi.edu
On-Demand Professional Development
At WPI, we embrace the fact that learning doesn’t stop when you’re out of the classroom—in fact, it doesn’t stop at all. That’s why WPI offers an online professional development portal as an option. For lifelong learners, the portal provides the opportunity to take the skills you’ve already mastered and build upon them through trainings, continuing education, and digital badging.
We offer a variety of stackable, self-paced, on-demand micro-courses designed to help you stay relevant in your field while perfecting your skills and learning new ones. Whether you’re looking to brush up on the latest tech in your chosen field, find a subject to complement your expertise, or branch out into something new, you’ll get the resources, support, and most importantly, innovative education for which WPI is known—all on your time, all on your terms.
https://www.wpi.edu/offices/external-relations/corporate-relations/employers-partners/professional-development-individual-learners
Whether you’re an employee looking to expand your skill set, a manager developing your team, or a company looking to enhance their device development capabilities, WPI is here to support your unique needs.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is the organizing principle at play for life sciences research, education, and technology development. Our dedicated research teams go beyond traditional academic department boundaries and coalesce around ideas, approaching complex problems from multiple perspectives to speed the pace of discovery.
Leveraging our direct-from-industry faculty, world-renowned and innovative lab space, and hands-on approach to course material, WPI is prepared to help you lead the way in the following areas:
Graduate Programs
At WPI, lifelong learning is an integral part of our educational philosophy.
Our extensive suite of graduate programs pulls from fields across science, engineering, and business. You will be welcomed into a strong, dynamic, and diverse community that encourages unique thoughts, dares you to ask bold questions, and provides you the opportunity and support to be a catalyst for change.
At WPI, we recognize—and appreciate—that every student is unique and at a different place in their career and life. That’s why we promote customization and flexibility with our graduate programs. Explore our 50+ programs offered both online and on campus.
Grad.wpi.edu
Industry Partnerships, Workforce Development, and Training
WPI provides dynamic learning opportunities so your company can gain a productive workforce, attract and retain top talent, and remain on the cutting edge of innovation. Invest in your company’s most important asset—your employees. By providing employees with continuous learning opportunities, your company will gain a more knowledgeable and productive workforce and attract and retain top talent.
Our expert instructors and experienced staff work with you to identify your team’s knowledge gaps, suggest opportunities for growth, and craft a customized curriculum that meets your learning needs and business goals.
https://www.wpi.edu/offices/external-relations/corporate-relations/employers-partners/corporate-education-workforce-development-programs
BETC
The Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center (BETC) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute provides customized training courses to meet your real-world training needs. The first of its kind in New England, our 10,000-square-foot, pilot-scale biomanufacturing facility located in the heart of Massachusetts, is where theory is put into practice and hands-on training fosters growth and (enables)creates bold innovators in industry.
Our laboratory space features individual rooms—including small-scale labs for upstream and downstream processing and a 200L pilot–scale lab—where you’ll have hours of hands-on training on bioprocessing equipment in a simulated cGMP environment. The BETC lab space mirrors a real-world bioprocessing environment where you can explore new processes, train on state-of-the-art equipment, take risks in a safe environment, try what-ifs, and fully master bioprocessing techniques in an environment that fosters your development.
Ranging from one-day trainings to in-depth, weeklong programs, the BETC provides a rich environment to (-where you’ll) expand your knowledge of bioprocessing and hone your hands-on techniques. Our goal: a skilled, confident workforce ready to be productive from day one.
Wp.wpi.edu/betc
PracticePoint
PracticePoint is WPI’s membership-based health research, (remove and) development, and testing facility—a place to advance health technology and launch better medical, cyber-physical systems. The facility is a resource for designing, prototyping, and evaluating everything from rehabilitative devices to surgical robotics by an associated consortium of academics, industry, healthcare professionals, and users/patients.
PracticePoint includes spaces that look and function like (-remove areas where) medical care facilities (-remove would take place, but) with the additional equipment to study how best to deliver that care: T3 Sigma Premier MRI, a fully functional operating room, ICU/NICU, MD office, fully instrumented living space, state-of-the-art motion capture lab - all co-located with advanced manufacturing capabilities. Our advanced manufacturing rooms include a wide array of 3D printing, CNC manufacturing, and electronics assembly and test capabilities. Here you can work on your health technology innovations and medical device development.
Practicepoint.wpi.edu
On-Demand Professional Development
At WPI, we embrace the fact that learning doesn’t stop when you’re out of the classroom—in fact, it doesn’t stop at all. That’s why WPI offers an online professional development portal as an option. For lifelong learners, the portal provides the opportunity to take the skills you’ve already mastered and build upon them through trainings, continuing education, and digital badging.
We offer a variety of stackable, self-paced, on-demand micro-courses designed to help you stay relevant in your field while perfecting your skills and learning new ones. Whether you’re looking to brush up on the latest tech in your chosen field, find a subject to complement your expertise, or branch out into something new, you’ll get the resources, support, and most importantly, innovative education for which WPI is known—all on your time, all on your terms.
https://www.wpi.edu/offices/external-relations/corporate-relations/employers-partners/professional-development-individual-learners
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