LEADING THE REVOLUTION IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AT A GLANCE 2014
OLIN AT A GLANCE LOCATION Needham, Massachusetts, 14 miles west of Boston
BELO W Brendan Quinlivan ‘14 Rutland, MA
FIRST COMMENCEMENT May 2006 MAJORS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering CONCENTRATIONS Bioengineering, Computing, Design, Materials Science, Robotics, Systems
ADMISSION Highly selective, with an emphasis on outstanding academic achievement and extracurriculars; special attention given to creativity, passion and enterprise
SCHOLARSHIP POLICY Every enrolled student receives a four-year, half-tuition scholarship valued at more than $80,000 FUNDING The F.W. Olin Foundation committed more than $460 million to support the college, one of the largest grants in the history of higher education
ABOVE Rachel Boy ‘15 Bloomsburg, PA
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
About Olin
The idea for Olin goes back nearly two decades, that’s 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 Curriculum
The 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 is in response to 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.
SCOPE
Senior Capstone Program in Engineering Olin’s hands-on curriculum culminates in SCOPE, a substantial, year-long project under the realistic constraints of 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 Current SCOPE developing technologies Sponsors and ventures to help AGCO alleviate poverty in lowAnalogic income communities. Ariens Army Research Laboratory Boeing Boston Scientific Brandeis University DePuy Synthes Mitek Sports Medicine Facebook Harley-Davidson Intuit Raytheon TripAdvisor What Matters Most
OLIN MAKES ITS MARK 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 6 7% of students completed an internship or research assignment last summer 3 4% 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 Report 27% who entered a STEM graduate program won a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Undergraduate alumni giving rate ranked #1 nationally by the Council for Aid to Education
Institutional Accomplishments A DMISSION RATE IS 16.6% — placing Olin among the most selective colleges and universities in the country R ANKED #4 Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs, non-doctoral, by U.S. News & World Report Founding leadership received GORDON PRIZE for innovation in engineering and technological education R ANKED #1 in nation among ‘Colleges Where it’s Easiest to Get Involved,’ according to U.S. News & World Report (2011) R ANKED #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 Olin named one of “NEW IVIES” by Kaplan/ Newsweek (2005) Named BEST 378 College, BEST Value College + BEST in the Northeast by Princeton Review A dditional 2013 Princeton Review rankings include: #2 Students Study the Most #6 Professors get High Marks #6 Best Science Lab Facilities #10 Best Classroom Experience #11 Best Quality of Life #15 Best Career Services #17 Their Students Love this College #18 Great Financial Aid N amed one of the Fiske Guide’s 2014 BEST BUY Schools
Faculty Profile Their expertise ranges from astrophysics to Chopin, from circuit design to entrepreneurship, from robotics to genetics. Working with the faculty are academic partners and instructors.
ACCEPTANCE RATE
16.6%
3 8 Full-time ( 45% women / 55% men ) 1 9 Part-time and Adjunct ( 16% women / 84% men )
8 TO 1 Student to Faculty Ratio P ASSION Undergraduate teaching and working with students on research and scholarly activities I NNOVATION No tenure awarded; no academic departments; faculty work eagerly across disciplines
8:1
STUDENT/ FACULTY RATIO
ABOVE Jennifer Wei ’17 Cupertino, CA
LEFT Emily Guthrie ’16 – Austin, TX and Sean Karagianes ’16 – Sacramento, CA work on possible designs for their Principles of Engineering course project, a guitar playing machine.
Class of 2017 Profile Applicants: 803 Invited to Candidate Weekends: 254 Admitted: 133 E nrolled: 86 students Geography: 25 states; 4 foreign countries; 10 non-US citizens Average GPA: 3.82/4.0 (unweighted) Percent Female / Male: 55% women / 45% men ABOVE Carly Ingrao, ’16 Recognized by National Scholarship Irvine, CA Programs: 20% Leadership: 78% participated in community service; 64% musicians; 67% athletes; 58% participated on academic teams; 43% held a job during high school; 23% involved in research projects; 21% were student government officers This class includes students who: Founded a start-up publishing company Led a talk on human trafficking at Education Outreach Earned a Girl Scout Gold Award Coached a middle school Science Olympiad team Started a robotics program at a K-12 school in Haridwar, India Created an emergency medicine mobile app Participated in poetry slams Ran the first Treats for the Troops program in their hometown Created a full-length documentary about street CLASS OF 2017 performers in New York City GENDER RATIO: Did community service projects in the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest WOMEN and the Andes Co-authored a student research paper published in MTS Journal Co-founded a nonprofit called Education Matters that collects money and supplies for MEN needy schools
55% 45%
INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Alumni Profile Class of 2013 at six-months post-graduation 9 5% employed or in graduate school Employed 76% STEM Grad School 9% Other Grad School 1% Entrepreneurs 8% Other 5% Alumni Awards Classes of 2006–2013 Fulbright Scholars 9 Goldwater Scholarships 2; Honorable Mentions 2 Gates Cambridge Scholar 1
SIX-YEAR GRADUATION RATE
99% Student Profile Enrollment: 343 students (50% women / 50% men) Origins: 38 states, 13 countries, 23 foreign nationals First-to-Second Year Retention Rates: 96% Six-year Graduation Rate: 99% National Merit Scholars: 20%
96%
FIRST-TO-SECOND YEAR RETENTION RATE
LEFT Berit Johnson ’14 Eden Prairie, MN and Benjamin Kroop ’15 Brookline, MA
95%
Employment, Graduate Schools, Research and Internships EMPLOYED OR IN GRADUATE SCHOOL
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 577 alumni, classes of 2006–13.
Top 10 Graduate Schools Top 10 Employers Babson College Carnegie Mellon University Cornell University Harvard University MIT Stanford University University of California, Berkeley University of Illinois University of Washington Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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athenahealth* * Denotes a company Bluefin Robotics that has also sponsored Boeing* a SCOPE project Google Microsoft* Pocket Gems Raytheon* Rockwell Automation* Twitter United States Navy
Top 10 Summer Research Programs Boston University Caltech Cornell University Harvard University IMEC – Belgium Johns Hopkins University MIT
BELO W Abe Levitan ’16– Brooklyn, NY receives guidance from course NINJA (need information, just ask) Ian Daniher ’14 – Batavia, OH
U niversity of California, Berkeley UCLA University of Massachusetts
Top 10 intern employers ABOVE Ian Hill ’17– Northfield, NH confers with professors David Kerns and JoseOscar Mur-Miranda on his project for their Modeling and Control course.
Bose Boston Scientific* GE Google IBM* iRobot
Massachusetts General Hospital Microsoft* Pivotal SoftArtisans
Olin College Contacts ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION
Vincent Manno Provost; Dean of Faculty 781.292.2591 vincent.manno@olin.edu
Michelle Davis Chief Marketing Officer 781.292.2251 michelle.davis@olin.edu
ADMISSION
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Charles S. Nolan Vice President; Dean of Admission 781.292.2201 charles.nolan@olin.edu
Richard K. Miller President 781.292.2301 richard.miller@olin.edu
COLLABORATORY
POST GRADUATE PLANNING
Lynn Andrea-Stein Associate Dean; Director of the Collaboratory 781.292.2525 las@olin.edu
Sally Phelps Director of Post Graduate Planning 781.292.2281 sally.phelps@olin.edu
DEVELOPMENT, FAMILY AND ALUMNI RELATIONS Mary Kay McFadden Vice President for Development, Family and Alumni Relations 781.292.2291 marykay.mcfadden@olin.edu
FINANCE Stephen P. Hannabury Executive Vice President and Treasurer 781.292.2401 stephen.hannabury@olin.edu
SCOPE PROGRAM Alisha Sarang-Sieminski SCOPE Director 781.292.2553 alisha.sarang-sieminski@olin.edu
STUDENT LIFE Rae-Anne Butera Dean of Student Life 781.292.2321 rae-anne.butera@olin.edu
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS Joanne Kossuth Vice President for Operations; Chief Information Officer 781.292.2431 joanne.kossuth@olin.edu
FRANKLIN W. OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Olin Way Needham, MA 02492-1200 781-292-2300 www.olin.edu 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. DESIGN Sametz Blackstone Associates PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY Alex Budnitz
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