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Research Professor at WPI - Research Assistant Professor Worcester Polytech Employee Review

3.0
22 Feb 2015
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Pros

Great engineering and research environment. Nice campus. UMass Medical School near - many projects are available. Great if you like to teach too.

Cons

Regardless how much you try, or like teaching, you will never become a tenure track teaching faculty. You are treated like a lower life form (compared to teaching faculty)

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Pros

Flexible, great professors, strong union

Cons

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4.0
24 June 2026
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Pros

Can be pretty easy if most of your work is office hours. I had about seven hours a week and most of the time there weren't many students.

Cons

Grading was a lot harder than I expected. Pretty demoralizing honestly; a lot of clearly ChatGPT submissions (ECE programming class mostly with freshmen who'd never seen code before, so not surprising). Grading paper exams was fine.

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