Through a self-design plan, you’ll have the opportunity to innovate, explore, and expand your boundaries. This personalized opportunity allows you to design a unique and meaningful away experience that combines your personal, professional, or educational interests.

A student curated opportunity in which students create their own personalized learning platform. Students create three (3) semester long goals based on personal/professional/educational interest.  Examples include: Website or application development, foreign language study, shadowing an industry professional.  

Sample of recent self-design plans:

• Build a remote-controlled plan
• Prototype a robot
• Complete and publish a novel

Self-Design Planning and Registration

Please Note: Students should be registered for ILEA 4400 by the Add Deadline of their Away Term. Any student not registered is at risk of disenrollment after the fifth week of that term.

Requirements

Develop three (3) semester long career orientated goals. 

Note: Students must satisfactorily complete a mandatory LMS course during their semester-away experience.

Process to Register a Self-Design Experience

• Log into sis.rpi.edu to record your away-semester plan
• Visit Handshake to upload your offer letter and resume and to answer a few questions about your experience (Handshake > Career Center > Experiences > Request an Experience)
• CCPD will verify and approve the plan and send a confirmation email to your RPI email address