Industry Partnerships

Innovative, forward-thinking companies partner with Olin in a number of ways that help achieve their business goals, while also creating impact in the world and exceptional learning experiences for students.

From startups to Fortune 500 companies, many types of organizations work with Olin faculty, staff, and students by sponsoring meaningful laboratory classroom experiences, research projects, and year-long Capstone experiences that offer transformative, real-world context for students while generating new connections, innovative thinking, and valuable insights for partners.

Senior Capstone Program in Engineering (SCOPE)

SCOPE is a unique industry-university collaboration, and the culminating experience of an Olin student's education. Over the course of a full academic year, seniors work in multi-disciplinary teams to provide innovative solutions to a company’s real-world problems.

Recent SCOPE Projects

Research

Improving CT Scanner Alignment During Installation

The 2022-23 GE Healthcare SCOPE team worked to improve CT image quality by creating a tool or process that will allow CT scanner installation technicians to achieve increased alignment precision.

Research

Pfizer Clinical Trial Assistant

The 2022-23 Pfizer SCOPE team built a prototype that augments the information search capabilities of Pfizer clinical research colleagues when responding to IP handling queries from clinical trial sites, thereby minimizing wait times for patients.

Research

Energy Harvesting from Water Flow

The goal of this project was to understand manufacturability and control of a device used to generate electrical power from water flow in pipes to power sensors for smart water networks.

Learn more about SCOPE

Industry Supported Curricular Experiences

Many partners engage with Olin through semester-long lab projects or other curricular experiences. By sponsoring projects with Olin students, companies gain a fresh take on challenges facing their business and are able to explore important new areas of development.

These sponsored projects engage students to apply engineering skills to real-world problems and learn what works and doesn’t work in industry settings. Both sponsors and students benefit by working together on something that matters to others.

Industry Affiliated Research

Olin is always looking to partner with entrepreneurs, companies, and organizations who recognize the benefit of collaborating with faculty and students to advance research & development and to spur innovation. Industry research collaborations at Olin can take a number of forms including sponsorship of specific research projects and forming multi-year relationships.

Braden Oh '23 shown with mic in hand speaking during Draper Research Symposium in 2023.

NEWS: Olin Student Team Wins Award at Annual Draper Research Symposium

Earlier this month, a team of six Olin College students presented at the Draper Research Symposium and earned the top spot in the category Undergraduate Senior Capstone Student Projects.

A group of students holding a robotic fish

Student Research at Olin

From creating robotic fish with the ability to autonomously swim across the ocean to designing satellites for launch into orbit, Olin College of Engineering offers students a wide range of research projects, from paid investigations to those for college credit, or simply to explore a concept in a field of interest.

A photo of a professor and a student in a classroom looking at a laptop computer

STORY: Helping Others and Learning Human-Centered Engineering During Summer Research Program

This summer, Paul Ruvolo, associate professor of Computer Science, is leading a summer research team including a mix of Oliners, students from other colleges, and visually impaired users to improve and expand a tech platform he developed that assists low-vision and blind people navigate their surroundings.

Three small children squat down in front of a small table with three piles of white papers spread out in front of them.

OSSTP Students Designing SmallSat Educational Toy

A student-led team from the Olin Satellite + Spectrum Technology & Policy (OSSTP) Group is working on an easy-to-ship educational model of a small satellite, or SmallSat, geared towards K–5 students around the world.

A photo of a group of students and employers mingling at a Career Fair

Recruiting

Recruiting at Olin

Visit our Employers Information page to learn more about:

Olin's Premier Recruitment Partner Program
Posting job & internship opportunities
Hosting information sessions
Joining our career fairs

Have ideas for other ways to collaborate?

We welcome you to reach out to our office to explore partnership opportunities.

General inquiries should contact us at [email protected].

Industry Partnerships