Aa MISSION TOto TRANSFORM TRANSF SNAPSHOT 2018
Collaboratory TRANSFORMING THE ROLE AND PRACTICE OF ENGINEERING
→ Over 2,500 educators and business leaders have visited Olin to learn more → They represent over 830 institutions → 20 institutions
have adopted curricula inspired by Olin
Rankings TRANSFORMING THE LANDSCAPE OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION
* → U.S. News & World Report ranks
Olin #3 among U.S. undergraduate engineering schools*
→ College Factual has ranked Olin #18 among all U.S. colleges → Princeton Review has named Olin among its Best 382 Colleges, Best Northeastern Colleges and Colleges That Pay You Back
TRANSFORMING ENGINEERING EDUCATION
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Outcomes
Olin’s average graduation rate is 91% compared with less than 60% for engineering majors nationally
50%
0%
→A mong recent graduates,
94% are employed or in graduate school
within six months of graduation
↓ 83% are employed or starting their own business ↓ 12% are in graduate school; rising to 53% 10 years after graduation ↓ Many others pursue once-in-a-lifetime travel or volunteer opportunities
10 years after graduation → 40% have been involved in a startup venture
→6 7% report that
→5 3% have pursued graduate degrees
→ 84% feel valued in the workplace
they love their job
→A verage salary is over $111,000 →O verall, nearly
70% of alumni give to Olin each year
Students → 345
TRANSFORMING THE FACE OF ENGINEERING → 48% women,
degree students
based on legal sex … compared with about 20% nationally
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NATIONAL AVERAGE
Olin Is Different Olin College of Engineering was founded not just to graduate engineering innovators who will be leaders in solving the pressing global challenges of today and tomorrow. It also serves as a resource to other colleges and universities across the world seeking to broaden and rethink their educational approaches and learning environments.
PEOPLE-INSPIRED
designing for people’s needs
REAL-WORLD
learning through hands-on projects
INNOVATIVE
educating a new engineer for the 21st century
IMPACTFUL
revolutionizing engineering education around the world
→ Representing 43 states and 13 countries → 9% are among the first generation in their family to go to college → 1 out of 8 applicants is admitted to Olin
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What’s Next: Transforming the Future Resting on its laurels is not in Olin’s DNA. Olin is more than a college; it’s now a movement that is sweeping away decades of traditional approaches to education in order to motivate students to engage deeply with their learning and take ownership of it. The small but growing league of Olin graduates is already having a profound effect in the practice of engineering and the world. Schooled in global and entrepreneurial mindsets, confident in their abilities, used to thinking outside the box, they are changing the culture of the engineering workplace, broadening the definition of the engineer and providing the critical core of innovators to take on the world’s challenges — and inspire others to do the same.
A New Kind of Faculty Faculty at Olin forgo comfortable, tenured positions at prestigious colleges and universities to be a part of Olin’s exciting educational experiment. Having no academic departments frees faculty to create innovative and interdisciplinary learning experiences. This has profound effects on how the education is delivered. A student is likely to see an anthropologist and an engineer offering a class together, or a chemistry professor and a historian. Students learn engineering in context and see faculty members taking risks and role modeling teamwork. Of our 41 full time faculty, 37% are women. The student/faculty ratio of 8-to-1 means the faculty get to know our students, leading to strong relationships that promote deep learning and strong outcomes.
A New Engineering Curriculum Olin’s curriculum is a big factor in keeping students studying engineering, a field notorious for weeding out students. The Olin curriculum 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 inventions and how to get solutions out of the lab and into the world.
Teaching methods are different at Olin. The learning is projectbased and grounded in student interests and passions. Students are well-versed in physics, math and engineering science, but also fully develop professional skills like communication and teamwork, and mindsets like entrepreneurship. It all adds up to a unique culture that puts students at the center of their learning. The curriculum culminates in the senior year with either SCOPE — a yearlong collaborative experience with an industry sponsor — or Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship (ADE) —an opportunity to help develop ventures in low-income communities around the globe.
Transforming Lives Olin’s real-world approach results in students graduating with a long resume of experience already under their belts. They are ready for anything. Olin graduates are immediately pursuing advanced degrees at schools such as Harvard, MIT and Stanford; making their professional mark with employers such as Microsoft, athenahealth, Google and Boeing; and receiving prestigious prizes like the Fulbright and Goldwater Scholarships. They are designing renewable energy systems, developing novel medical treatments, starting businesses or teaching a new generation of college graduates in the Olin tradition. Olin’s quest to find engineer-innovators who can solve global challenges like providing clean energy and engineering better medicines starts with Olin’s unique admission process. An impressive SAT score isn’t enough; we’re also looking for students who have a well-rounded resume that includes other areas of interest, such as art, leadership, entrepreneurship, community service, sports or music.
Transforming the World Olin today is a privately funded national laboratory for STEM education redesign that rapidly and continually updates its curriculum and teaching methods. Students and faculty constantly re-evaluate courses, create new ones and assess where to go next. Through its Collaboratory, Olin shares its experience openly with other educators — thousands have traveled to campus to see Olin in action — spurring transformation in education around the world.
The engineer of the future needs creativity to envision new products, communication skills to thrive in a global environment, people skills to collaborate and persuade, and an entrepreneurial spirit to seize opportunities and create value. Chartered in 1997 with a $460 million grant from the F.W. Olin Foundation, Olin resolved to be a new kind of engineering college, committed to student-centered, project-based learning unencumbered by tradition. The year before its opening, Olin held a remarkable “Partner Year.” Thirty risk-taking students — 15 women and 15 men — came to Olin’s fledgling campus to help design and create their learning experience. They were mentored by a fearless group of core faculty and staff, all of whom were committed to changing education for the better.
No academic departments. No tenure. Affordable cost. Students and their needs at the center of learning and decision-making. Olin opened its doors in 2002.
CONTACT US
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FRANKLIN W. OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Olin Way Needham, MA 02492-1200 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, or sexual orientation, or veteran, marital or citizenship status. DESIGN Sametz Blackstone Associates PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY Leise Jones, Alex Budnitz
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