Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Michael Hellmich of Kirkland, a member of the class of 2019 majoring in biomedical engineering, was named to the university’s dean’s list for academic excellence for the fall 2015 semester.

A total of 1,238 undergraduate students achieved the criteria required for WPI’s fall 2015 Dean’s List. The criteria for the WPI Dean’s List differ from that of most other universities as WPI does not compute a grade point average (GPA). Instead, WPI defines the Dean’s List by the amount of work completed at the A level in courses and projects.