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REVOLUTIONIZING ENGINEERING EDUCATIONOLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGAT A GLANCE2015
OLIN AT A GLANCE
FOUNDING The F.W. Olin Foundation committed more than $460 million to support the college, one of the largest and most visionary grants in the history of higher education. Thirty partner students made history by co-founding Olin.
FACILITIES Olin’s facilities encompass 382,000 square feet of first-class academic, administrative and residential space, including a fully converged IT infrastructure, campus-wide wireless connectivity and state-of-the-art labs and classrooms.
PARTNERSHIPS Olin, Babson and Wellesley are part of a wide-ranging collaboration that brings together liberal arts, business and engineering perspectives to tackle major societal issues.
CATALYZING CHANGE VIA THE COLLABORATORY In an effort to fulfill the second part of our dual mission—to collaborate with others to transform engineering education—we created our “Collaboratory.” Through it Olin has hosted more than 1,200 visitors from more than 400 institutions, and inspired and collaborated with 12 other institutions to make significant curricular changes.
LOCATION Needham, Massachusetts, 14 miles west of Boston
FIRST COMMENCEMENT May 2006
MAJORS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering
CONCENTRATIONS Bioengineering, Computing, Design, Materials Science, Robotics
ADMISSION Highly selective, with an emphasis on outstanding academic achievement and extracurriculars; special attention given to creativity, passion and enterprise
AFFORDABILITY The founders of Olin were deeply committed to recognizing excellence and providing for affordability. As a result, every enrolled student receives an eight-semester, half-tuition merit-based scholarship valued at more than $85,000. The scholarship program is complimented by Olin’s policy of meeting full demonstrated need, meaning finances should never stand in the way of an Olin education.
ABOVE Rachel Boy ’15Bloomsburg, PA
REVOLUTIONIZING ENGINEERING EDUCATIONOLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGAT A GLANCE2015
SCOPESenior Capstone Program in EngineeringOlin’s hands-on curriculum culminates in SCOPE, a substantial, year-long project carried out under realistic constraints for a corporation or other sponsor. As part of SCOPE, the sponsor supplies an authentic, challenging engineering problem. Olin provides a student engineering team, a dedicated project space, a faculty adviser and access to the Olin technology base. Projects involve multiple engineering disciplines, including elements of engineering science, engineering design and entrepreneurship. Alternatively, students have the opportunity to complete a year-long Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship capstone where they work in teams with faculty advisors developing technologies and ventures to help alleviate poverty in low-income communities.
About OlinThe idea for Olin goes back nearly two decades, when the National Science Foundation and the leaders of the engineering community began urging fundamental reforms in engineering education, including more emphasis on entrepreneurship, teamwork and communication. The F.W. Olin Foundation took up the challenge, committing more than $460 million to create a new undergraduate engineering college. Bringing together some of the best minds and the best ideas in engineering education, Olin developed a hands-on, interdisciplinary program geared toward producing engineering innovators.
The Olin CurriculumThe Olin curriculum is based on the idea that engineering starts with people—understanding who we’re designing for, what they value, and where there are areas of opportunity—and ends with
people—understanding the social context of our work and how to get solutions out of the lab and into the world.
Olin’s approach to engineering education contrasts with how engineers are currently educated. At most schools, students spend the first semesters — sometimes years —taking prerequisites in math and science before
they get to do any engineering. These programs discourage many of the students who are most interested in engineering.
At Olin, students start engineering in context right away, with three classes in the first semester that provide hands-on experience in several areas of engineering and the development of critical thinking and communication skills. As they progress through the curriculum, they tackle projects of increasing complexity that prepare them for the global challenges they will face as graduates. Students stay engaged by working collaboratively — with faculty and other students — on projects connected to real-world problems.
Current SCOPE Sponsors AGCOAnalogicapportableArmy Research LaboratoryBoeingBoston ScientificCare.comDassault SystemsHarley-DavidsonIvaniLocus RoboticsRaytheonRockwell AutomationSantos Family Foundation
The college has garnered a national reputation for innovation in engineering education, and its alumni are making their mark at top companies, entrepreneurial ventures and graduate schools. Below are statistics that highlight our accomplishments to date:
Alumni & Student Accomplishments
76% of the Class of 2014 completed an internship or research experience during their education 34% of all alumni have been accepted or have attended graduate school; of those
47% who entered a STEM graduate program attend a Top 10 graduate school, as defined by U.S. News & World Report27% who entered a STEM graduate program won a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
#1 undergraduate alumni giving rate (Council for Aid to Education)
OLIN MAKES ITS MARK
Institutional Accomplishments
ADMISSION RATE IS 10.6% — placing Olin among the most selective colleges and universities in the country RANKED #3 Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs, non-doctoral, by U.S. News & World Report Founding leadership received GORDON PRIZE for innovation in engineering and technological education RANKED #1 Top 10 Financial Aid Providers by Parents & Colleges Ranked as a TOP FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PRODUCER by the Chronicle of Higher Education four times since 2006 Named BEST 379 College, BEST Value College + BEST in the Northeast by Princeton Review Additional 2014 Princeton Review rankings include:
#2 Best Classroom Experience#3 Students Study the Most#4 Professors Get High Marks#6 Their Students Love this College#11 Great Financial Aid#12 Best Quality of Life#17 Best Career Services#19 Happiest Students
Named one of the Fiske Guide’s 2015 BEST BUY Schools
8:1STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO
55%MEN
ACCEPTANCE RATEFaculty ProfileTheir expertise ranges from astrophysics to Chopin, from circuit design to entrepreneurship, from robotics to genetics. Working with the faculty are academic partners and instructors.
35 Full-time ( 46% women / 54% men ) 20 Part-time and Adjunct ( 15% women / 85% men ) 8 TO 1 Student to Faculty Ratio PASSION Undergraduate teaching and working with students on research and scholarly activities INNOVATION No academic departments; no tenure awarded; faculty work eagerly across disciplines
10.6%
Class of 2018 Profile Applicants: 998 Invited to Candidate Weekends: 221 Admitted: 106 Enrolled: 86 students Geography: 23 states; 8 foreign countries; 12 non-US citizens Average GPA: 3.9/4.0 (unweighted) Percent Female / Male: 45% women / 55% men National Merit Scholars: 11% Leadership: 85% participated in community service; 70% musicians; 71% athletes; 47% participated on academic teams; 35% held a job during high school; 27% involved in research projects; 12% were student government officers This class includes students who:
Built a rainwater collection system for a school gardenDid a presentation for Apple’s Education Division and for MacWorld in San FranciscoDeveloped a low-cost autonomous wheelchairParticipated on an IEA Equestrian TeamCompleted a Junior Thesis Project on the history and equality of the poverty lineCreated a county-wide FIRST Robotics initiativeRecorded a self-written EP of vocal and guitar musicWorked at a TB-HIV research lab in South AfricaPainted a mural at the Hawaii Convention Center and the new Pacific Hall at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumTraveled to 15 countriesWas an international finalist at FIRST Robotics World ChampionshipsSang in a Grammy-nominated performance of Bernstein’s Mass
CLASS OF 2018 GENDER RATIO:
45%WOMEN
LEFT Victoria Preston ’16 Edgewater, MD confers with professor Aaron Hoover on her Principles of Engineering course project.
ABOVE Subhash Gubba, ’17Sugar Land, TX
96%
INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING EDUCATION
FIRST-TO-SECOND YEAR RETENTION RATE
95%SIX-YEAR GRADUATION RATE
Student Profile Enrollment: 334 students (50% women / 50% men) Origins: 38 states, 13 countries, 23 foreign nationals First-to-Second Year Retention Rates: 96% Six-year Graduation Rate: 95% Financial Aid: 100% of full-time students receive merit scholarships and 49% qualify for need-based assistance
LEFT Paige Cote ’16Orland, ME
Alumni ProfileClass of 2012-14 at six-months post-graduation
93% employed or in graduate schoolEmployed 76%STEM Grad School 11%Other Grad School 2%Entrepreneurs 4%Other 7%
$78,073 average starting salary
Alumni Awards Classes of 2006–2014 Fulbright Scholars 12 Goldwater Scholarships 3; Gates Cambridge Scholar 1 Marshall Scholarship 1 Samsung Scholar 1 National Science Foundation Awards 43
Employment, Graduate Schools, Research and InternshipsStudents enter Olin College ready for real-world challenges. Many of them spend summers in labs, corporations and service organizations after just one year at Olin. The project-based, real-world learning at Olin prepares them, and our Office of Post Graduate Planning helps to place them. The following information represents data from Olin’s 661 alumni, classes of 2006–14.
96%
EMPLOYED OR IN GRADUATE SCHOOL
93%
95%SIX-YEAR GRADUATION RATE
Top Summer Research Programs
CaltechCornell UniversityHarvard UniversityIMEC – Belgium Johns Hopkins UniversityMIT Stanford
University of California, Los Angeles University of Maryland University of Washington
Top intern employersathenahealthBarrett TechnologyBlue OriginBoeingBoston Scientific
GE GoogleIBMIntuitMicrosoft
Top EmployersMicrosoft*athenahealth*GoogleBoeing*Rockwell Automation*United States NavyPocket GemsTwitterAppleFacebook*
Top Graduate SchoolsHarvard UniversityMITStanford UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity of California, BerkeleyCornell UniversityUniversity of Washington
* Denotes a company that has also sponsored a SCOPE project
BELO W Jiaying Wei ’17 Leawood, KS receives guidance from course NINJA (Need Information Just Ask) Adela Wee ’15 Arcadia, CA
ABOVE , LEFT TO R IGHT Ken Berry ’15 Alpharetta, GA; Chris Joyce ’15 Arlington, VA; Luke Morris ’17 Pensacola, Fl; and Madeline Perry ’15, Newton, MA inspect welds on the new chassis for Olin’s MiniBaja car.
ACADEMIC AFFAIRSVincent MannoProvost; Dean of [email protected]
ADMISSIONCharles S. NolanVice President; Dean of [email protected]
COLLABORATORYLynn Andrea SteinAssociate Dean; Director of the [email protected]
DEVELOPMENT, FAMILY AND ALUMNI RELATIONSMary Kay McFaddenVice President for Development, Family and Alumni [email protected]
FINANCEStephen P. HannaburyExecutive Vice President and [email protected]
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSJoanne KossuthVice President for Operations; Chief Information [email protected]
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONMichelle DavisChief Marketing [email protected]
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTRichard K. [email protected]
POST GRADUATE PLANNINGSally PhelpsDirector of Post Graduate [email protected]
SCOPE PROGRAMAlisha Sarang-SieminskiSCOPE [email protected]
STUDENT LIFERae-Anne ButeraDean of Student [email protected]
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Nondiscrimination StatementOlin College does not discriminate in admission, employment, or other college-administered programs on the basis of race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, or veteran, marital or citizenship status.
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