Worcester Polytechnic Institute students join MOBILE
From the 13th of March to the 6th of May, five bachelor students from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will be working with MOBILE on their Interactive Qualifying Project (IPQ) “Transportation Access for Newcomers in Denmark”. During the students’ stay, they will be conducting field work in the greater Copenhagen area and data research at the MOBILE research center assisted/supervised by William Hamilton Byrne and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen.
The five bachelor students are: (In order from left to right)
Jake Thomas (BA in Chemical Engineering)
Emre Danabasoglu (BA in Aerospace Engineering)
Ryan McQuillan (BA in Biomedical engineering)
Matthew Papesh (BA in Robotics and Computer Science)
Marcus Adams (BA in Mechanical Engineering)
WPI is an engineering college in Massachusetts (US). The college has a Project-Based Learning approach to engineering education. The students work with interactive projects where they learn to apply theory in practice to understand the causal relationship between engineering and humanities in the real world.
The project will investigate the interaction between cities on the Danish Ghetto List and local mobilities through the use of public transportation. The aim of the project is to understand how newcomers become marginalized by their accessibility to public transportation. The project applies an interdisciplinary approach between the students’ respective educational backgrounds in engineering with law and humanities. The project will make use of both qualitative data, through fieldwork and interviews, and quantitative data, through software analysis of transit maps and schedules, to compare and explore nuances of transit inequities. William Hamilton Byrne and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen of MOBILE will assist the students in their project work by providing guidance, as well as a research space and network connections in Denmark.