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Wall Street Project Center

• October 26, 2005

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WSPC What Is It?

• The NEW, NEW, NEW Wall Street Project Center!
• Now improved with added LONDON!
• Some Trans-Atlantic Projects
• Right now 6 students in New York City, 6 in
  London.

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Sponsors

• Some of the biggest financial institutions in the
  world
• Deutsche Bank
• Lehman Brothers
• J. P. Morgan
• Morgan Stanley

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Project Areas

• Stock and Bond Trading
• Risk Management
• Hedge Funds
• Investment Banking

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Whats in a Project?

• Software Development
• Systems Analysis
• Distributed Systems
• Workflow
• Best Practices
• Collaboration
• Interface Design
• Visualization
• Statistics

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Who Should Apply

• Interests
• Finance
• Global enterprises
• Spending 7 weeks in New York or London.

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Who Should Apply

• Majors
• Computer Science
• Management
• Especially MGE and IE.
• Some Math
• Not MIS, ECE, BBT, HU, etc.
• People skills are important!

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Logistics

• Timing
• Apply now
• PQP in A-2006
• MQP in B-2006
• Living arrangements
• Furnished apartments in New York
• Partially subsidized
• Student housing in London
• Food is expensive

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For More Information

• Art Gerstenfeld ltag_at_wpi.edugt
• Mike Ciaraldi ltciaraldi_at_wpi.edugt