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GRADES and DEADLINES

For your efforts devoted to the IQP, you will get four separate grades, evaulating each aspect of the 14-week process:

1. ID2050: 1/3 unit of credit for the preparation class. Often the grade at the end of the preparation term (before you go off-campus) is assigned as (I)ncomplete, to allow the students to complete some of the requirements while in Venice.
2. PQP: 1/6 unit. Grades the quality of the project proposal both as product (the proposal itself) and as process. The same grade is typically assigned to each member of the team at the end of the preparation term. This grade will be changed to be the same as the final IQP grade, if the latter is higher, when the final IQP grade is assigned.
3. IQP Degree Requirement: no units. This grade will show up on your academic transcript under your degree requirements, and will be accompanied by your IQP abstract. It grades the products of the IQP, which include the quality and completeness of the final report and all other deliverables expected for the project. Usually the whole team gets the same grade, which is personally entered by your advisor of record into the eCDR form, which is obtained upon full completion of the online e-project submission process off the WPI library web site. Each single team member needs to individually print out, sign and deliver the eCDR form in the WPI mailbox of the faculty advisor-of-record, by the day before the start of the next term, following the off-campus experience. Failure to do so will require re-enrollment for another 1/6 unit of IQP in a later term. Under such circumstances, the grade will be automatically be lowered by one letter grade. The final IQP grade will retroactively improve the PQP grade, when applicable.
4. IQP credits: one unit (3/3) of project credit. Shows up in your transcript together with your grades in all other WPI classes, thus contributes to your GPA. The grade evaluates the process that lead to your completed IQP. This grade will reflect your personal contribution to the overall effort and will depend on the faculty assessment of the level and quality of your involvement in the project. Based on the advisors’ assessment of the “process”, corroborated by the various team and self evaluations, this grade can vary across the members of the team. Since the “process” includes the advisors’ own input into the “product”, it is possible that this grade will be individually different from the team's "IQP Requirement" grade (above). Often, the students will receive a an SP (Satisfactory Progress) grade at the end of the off-campus term. This grade will be changed when all the requirements are completed, concurrently with the submission of the complete set of project deliverables.