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Wall Street Project Center. October 26, 2005. 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. Sponsors.
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Wall Street Project Center October 26, 2005
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.
Sponsors • Some of the biggest financial institutions in the world • Deutsche Bank • Lehman Brothers • J. P. Morgan • Morgan Stanley
Project Areas • Stock and Bond Trading • Risk Management • Hedge Funds • Investment Banking
What’s in a Project? • Software Development • Systems Analysis • Distributed Systems • Workflow • Best Practices • Collaboration • Interface Design • Visualization • Statistics
Who Should Apply • Interests: • Finance • Global enterprises • Spending 7 weeks in New York or London.
Who Should Apply • Majors: • Computer Science • Management • Especially MGE and IE. • Some Math • Not: MIS, ECE, BBT, HU, etc. • People skills are important!
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
For More Information • Art Gerstenfeld <ag@wpi.edu> • Mike Ciaraldi <ciaraldi@wpi.edu>