WPI Alumni
SAS Snipes
Historian Facts
Sh*t SAS Hears
100

This WPI Alum and Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother is known as one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry who engineered the first ever liquid-fueled rocket

Robert Goddard

100

This former WPI Professor was a cellist in the Worcester Chamber Musical Society and has a super fun picture in the 1975 Peddler 

Tom Keli 

100

"Hey Siri, how do you spell congratulations?" 

- Marlee Donohoe

200

This WPI Dropout holds over 1,000 patents, founded FIRST, and invented the Segway

Dean Kamen

200
This...person was supposed to have a concert at WPI in 1973 but was replaced by Rich Little instead. Phew. 

Bill Cosby

200
"Do you think I can send a smiley face to my goat dealer?" 

- Nicole Leute 

300

This WPI Alum was a member of the Chi Omega Fraternity and is most famous for painting herself to look like Shrek

Michaela Cluett

300

Founded in 1949, members of this WPI Drinking Society would wear straw hats, white shirts, and vests

IHEE (I Hate Electrical Engineering) 

300

"The shortest JFK speech is 'OW'"

- Daniel Blatner 
400

This Alum started his blues and rock band while studying mechanical engineering at WPI in the mid-1960s

John Warren Geils Jr. (J. Geils) 

400
The amount of time between WPI's opening and its first classes 

1281 days or about 3.5 years

400
"Shmebulock? More like shmebuglock!" 

- Alden Priestner 

500

This WPI football player served in the US Army Corps of Engineers, was the first chairman of the American Quality Foundation, and served as CEO of General Motors 

Robert Stempel

500

The Phi Omicron Chapter of this sorority existed at WPI from 1980 to 1993

Delta Phi Epsilon

500

"I'm gonna kiss you all night long, Gompei" 

- Dillon Bresnahan