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Monday, December 8, 2008

IPRO (Inter-professional Research Opportunities)





Hello everyone!
Professionalism has finally arrived to IIT! This past Friday we had IPRO day! IPROs are Inter-professional Research Opportunities where a group of students get together and face either a community or an IIT problem. These students get together and try to solve the problem efficiently using the resources at hand. IIT students must complete two IPROs in order to graduate, but don't worry, it will be fun!
IPROs enable student to engage modern day problems that are actually affecting society. These projects will enable you to work with people from other majors and get first hand experience of how it is like to work with people with different learning backgrounds. One of the reasons why IIT requires IPROs is to prepare students for the modern day working environment. When you get a job, you will be interacting with people that have majored in different areas. IPROs will also stimulate reasoning and the capacity to apply what you have learned into projects that will benefit the community.
IIT has gone Professional, have you?

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