Innovative Engineering Education
Employment, Graduate Schools, Research and Internships Olin students and alumni have great opportunities! Students 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 alumni classes of 2006–2010.
Class of 2014
At a Glance
Olin’s class of 2014 has arrived and they are dialed into this decade’s hot topics: going green, being healthy, social media and cell phone apps. Along those lines, one has released two iPhone applications on Apple’s App store; another built an electric car out of a 1986 Pontiac Fiero GT (the car travels 120 miles on $1.50 worth of gas); another became a certified yoga instructor in 10th grade; one converted a car to run on vegetable oil; while another built a social networking site from scratch in PHP and one student started an organic garden at his school. Several are avid competitors; one placed in the top 12 junior girls at the USA Table Tennis Nationals; another competed on the US International Earth Science Olympiad team; one received a silver medal at the International Applicants Turkish Olympiad; one placed 2nd at the VEX 567 In v it e d to Candid Robotics World Championships; and another won ate Week ends 270 Admitted 171 the World Championships in Odyssey of the Mind. Enrolled 9 2 students They represent four foreign countries (China; Geograph y Germany; Korea; and Taiwan) and 23 US states. countries 23 states and four foreign Of the 92 students, 68 have been involved in Average G PA 4.6/4.0 (weighted community service, 54 were members of ) Percent Fe male/Male 56 percen 4 4 p academic teams, 64 are musicians, 49 are e rcent wom t men en, A d v anced Pla athletes, 22 are researchers, 28 are theater by AP Sch cement 67 perce olars Prog nt recogn buffs and 32 have a real passion for robotics. ized ram National Scholarsh ip They’re a studious bunch: 35 are AP Scholars National Merit Fina Programs 14 perc ent lists Honors 12 with distinction; one is a US Presidential valedictori ans/4 salu tatorians Leadership Scholar; 13 were National Merit Finalists; 7 4 % communit competed y serv o two were National Achievement Scholars; cians; 53% n academic teams ice; 59% ; a high scho thletes; 52% held 70% musitwo were National Hispanic Scholars; ol; 24% in volved in a job during ects; 30% research p d ra m a /the 12 were valedictorians and four were ro in studen t governm ater; 16% particip jated ent; 12% 35% on a are dance robotics te salutatorians. rs; am
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Olin College 2010–11: At a Glance
Top employers
Top Intern employers
Analog Devices athenahealth Boeing Corporation * DRS Technologies * Energy Solutions Giner, Inc. * Google Massachusetts General Hospital Microsoft * Pivotal Labs Raytheon Corporation * Rockwell Automation * Synapse The Mitre Corp. * U.S. Navy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
BBN Technologies BOSE DRS Technologies Explo General Electric IBM Intuit iRobot Microsoft MITRE NASA Raytheon Corporation Soft Artisans SolidWorks
* Denotes a company that has also sponsored a SCOPE project
Top graduate schools Babson College F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business Carnegie Mellon University Cornell University Harvard University MIT Stanford University Tufts University University of California Berkeley University of California Santa Barbara University of Washington Includes alumni who are attending, have completed or plan to attend
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% % or Science: 24 Employed: 59 ering, Math ne gi En in ol e: 7% Graduate scho w or Medicin Business, La in ol ho sc e Graduat s: 7% : 3% Entrepreneur employment) eer, seeking nt lu vo l, ve Other (tra
Top Non-Olin Sponsored Research Programs Boston University Biomedical California Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University Cornell University Harvard University IMEC Research Labs, Belgium IREE, China Keck Graduate Institute Lawrence Livermore National Lab MIT MIT Lincoln Laboratory Princeton University Robert Gordon University, Scotland Stanford University Texas A&M UCLA University of Maryland University of Minnesota University of Southern California
As of August 30, 2010
Statistics
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Olin College Contacts Academic Affairs Stephen Schiffman Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Dean of Faculty 781-292-2591 stephen.schiffman@olin.edu Admission Charles S. Nolan Vice President for External Relations Dean of Admission 781-292-2201 charles.nolan@olin.edu
About Olin
The idea for O lin goes back ne arly two decades. That’s when the NSF an d the leaders of the engineering co mmunity bega urging fundam n ental reforms in engineering education, incl uding more em phasis on entrepreneursh ip, teamwork, an d communication. The F.W. Olin Foundation took up the challenge, committing m or e than $460 million to create a new un dergraduate engineering co llege. Bringing to ge ther some of the best min ds and the best ideas in engineering ed ucation, Olin de ve loped a hands-on, inte rdisciplinary pr og ram geared toward produc ing engineerin g innovators.
Development J. Thomas Krimmel Vice President for Development 781-292-2291 thomas.krimmel@olin.edu Finance Stephen P. Hannabury Executive Vice President and Treasurer 781-292-2401 stephen.hannabury@olin.edu Information Technology and Operations Joanne Kossuth Vice President for Operations Chief Information Officer 781-292-2431 joanne.kossuth@olin.edu Office of the President Richard K. Miller President 781-292-2301 richard.miller@olin.edu
SCOPE Program Andrew Bennett SCOPE Director 781-292-2522 andrew.bennett@olin.edu Student Life Rod Crafts Dean of Student Life 781-292-2321 rod.crafts@olin.edu
At a Glance
Nondiscrimination Statement Olin 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.
The Olin curriculum is a synthesis of creative ideas and best practices in engineering education. Its aim is to apply new ways to teach engineering and to graduate students who are prepared to technological innovation in the 21st Century.
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Post Graduate Planning Sally Phelps Director of Post Graduate Planning 781-292-2281 sally.phelps@olin.edu
The Olin Curriculum
Profile
The Olin curriculum is based on the Olin Triangle of rigorous science and engineeing, entrepreneurship, and the liberal arts. Equally important is a dedication to lifelong learning, so students can continually update their skills to meet new technical challenges. From the beginning students learn through team-based, hands-on projects and tackle open-ended problems, the kind that go far beyond the textbook and call for a considerable amount of creativity and initiative. The curriculum also emphasizes interdisciplinary learning, communication and the role of design in engineering. To produce the kind of well-rounded, creative students it envisions, Olin supports a “learning continuum” that extends from classroom work to research, independent study, personal passions and other areas which, taken together, make up Olin’s unique learning environment. 2010–11 SCOPE Sponsors
SCOPE
Senior Capstone Program in Engineering
Olin’s hands-on curriculum culminates
Adsys Controls AGCO Analogic Autodesk Boston Scientific (2 projects) Brandeis University Draper Laboratory IBM Lexmark International MIT/Lincoln Labs Parietal Systems Raytheon Rockwell Automation
in SCOPE, a substantial, year-long project 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. Working according to the highest professional standards in teams with approximately five to seven students, the students spend more than one fourth of their senior year working on the project over two semesters. Projects involve multiple engineering disciplines, including elements of engineering science, engineering design and entrepreneurship.