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NEWS: Deb Chachra Named to Vox’s Future Perfect 50

She joins a list of scientists, thinkers, scholars, writers, and activists compiled by Vox who are building a more perfect future.

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Article Image of Jean J. Huang smiling during a Leadership Lab.

NEWS: Olin Awarded MassTech Advanced Manufacturing Training Program Grant

Two members of the Olin community— Jean J. Huang, associate professor of biology, and Michael Fannon, lab manager and instructor—are on a team that has been awarded a grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech).

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Article Olin student Eddy learning about the art of spinach harvesting from a partner farmer Aubrey

STORY: Cultivating Whole Engineers through Partnerships with Local Farms

This summer, two Olin students spent their time engaged equally in agricultural research and hands-on farmwork at certified-organic Powisset Farm.

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Article Olin College of Engineering's Kenechukwu Mbanisi, Assistant Professor of Robotics Engineering, is shown at a podium after the Olin teams wins the Farm Robotics Challenge.

NEWS: Olin Wins Grand Prize at the 2024 Farm Robotics Challenge

A design team from Olin College of Engineering and their robot, the “PhoenixBot,” have won the $10,000 grand prize in the second annual Farm Robotics Challenge. The award was announced on Oct. 24 during a ceremony at the FIRA USA robotics conference in Woodland, Calif.

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Article Three Olin College of Engineering faculty member headshots

NEWS: Olin Faculty Win $400K NSF Grant for AI Curriculum Development

Three Olin College professors have been awarded a $400,000 grant from the NSF to develop a curriculum in which engineering and computer science students use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance employment opportunities for people who are blind or visually impaired and for older adults.

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Article Elizabeth Johansen portrait

STORY: Johansen Co-Authors International Report on Oxygen Therapy Technology

Elizabeth Johansen, senior lecturer in design and biomedical engineering, has co-authored an international report on oxygen innovations spurred the worldwide medical oxygen shortage to address COVID-19, childhood pneumonia and a variety of other respiratory conditions.

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Article Laura Christakis headshot

STORY: Olin Alumna Comes Full Circle as SCOPE Sponsor

Laura Christakis ’11, who first worked with Boston Scientific in her own SCOPE project, is now the company’s liaison with Olin for this culminating senior project.

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Article Five Olin College of Engineering students hold up a physical, electromechanical Turing Machine.

STORY: Olin Students Create Rare, Fully Functional Electromechanical Turing Machine

A team of five Olin College of Engineering undergraduate students have created their own electromechanical Turing Machine for a project in their Fall 2023 Principles in Engineering (PIE) class. And at a low-cost of under $250, it might be one of only three physical machines in existence.

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Article Debbie Chachra portrait

NEWS: Deb Chachra Named to Vox’s Future Perfect 50

She joins a list of scientists, thinkers, scholars, writers, and activists compiled by Vox who are building a more perfect future.

Read More
Article Three Olin College of Engineering faculty member headshots

NEWS: Olin Faculty Win $400K NSF Grant for AI Curriculum Development

Three Olin College professors have been awarded a $400,000 grant from the NSF to develop a curriculum in which engineering and computer science students use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance employment opportunities for people who are blind or visually impaired and for older adults.

Read More
Article Image of Jean J. Huang smiling during a Leadership Lab.

NEWS: Olin Awarded MassTech Advanced Manufacturing Training Program Grant

Two members of the Olin community— Jean J. Huang, associate professor of biology, and Michael Fannon, lab manager and instructor—are on a team that has been awarded a grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech).

Read More
Article Olin student Eddy learning about the art of spinach harvesting from a partner farmer Aubrey

STORY: Cultivating Whole Engineers through Partnerships with Local Farms

This summer, two Olin students spent their time engaged equally in agricultural research and hands-on farmwork at certified-organic Powisset Farm.

Read More
Article Elizabeth Johansen portrait

STORY: Johansen Co-Authors International Report on Oxygen Therapy Technology

Elizabeth Johansen, senior lecturer in design and biomedical engineering, has co-authored an international report on oxygen innovations spurred the worldwide medical oxygen shortage to address COVID-19, childhood pneumonia and a variety of other respiratory conditions.

Read More
Article Olin College of Engineering's Kenechukwu Mbanisi, Assistant Professor of Robotics Engineering, is shown at a podium after the Olin teams wins the Farm Robotics Challenge.

NEWS: Olin Wins Grand Prize at the 2024 Farm Robotics Challenge

A design team from Olin College of Engineering and their robot, the “PhoenixBot,” have won the $10,000 grand prize in the second annual Farm Robotics Challenge. The award was announced on Oct. 24 during a ceremony at the FIRA USA robotics conference in Woodland, Calif.

Read More
Article Laura Christakis headshot

STORY: Olin Alumna Comes Full Circle as SCOPE Sponsor

Laura Christakis ’11, who first worked with Boston Scientific in her own SCOPE project, is now the company’s liaison with Olin for this culminating senior project.

Read More
Article Five Olin College of Engineering students hold up a physical, electromechanical Turing Machine.

STORY: Olin Students Create Rare, Fully Functional Electromechanical Turing Machine

A team of five Olin College of Engineering undergraduate students have created their own electromechanical Turing Machine for a project in their Fall 2023 Principles in Engineering (PIE) class. And at a low-cost of under $250, it might be one of only three physical machines in existence.

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In the Media

CBS News – Students at Massachusetts college design lightsaber with engineering skills

Sep 13, 2024

A recent graduate of Olin College in Needham, Massachusetts has brought a film icon to life, designing his own lightsaber.

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MIT Technology Review – How we transform to a fully decarbonized world

Apr 24, 2024

A world powered by electricity from abundant, renewable resources is now within reach.

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Inside Higher Ed – Campuses, Climate Change and ‘How Infrastructure Works’

Apr 18, 2024

"There is a lovely section in How Infrastructure Works when Professor Chachra brings her Olin College students on a journey of infrastructural discovery. Running beneath the campus is the Sudbury Aqueduct, a 16-mile-long century-old water tunnel. Chachra students are delighted to discover the hidden-in-plain-sight civilization-enabling infrastructure that exists, largely unnoticed and unseen, all around us."

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Events

Event Giving Tuesday Event Banner: Flying Phoenix + #Together We Rise

Giving Tuesday 2024

Olin College of Engineering

December 3, 2024 is Giving Tuesday, Olin's largest day of community fundraising. Join us on this global day of generosity and help spark the flame that fuels engineering transformation!

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Event Commencement 2024 - graduating student clapping

Commencement 2025

Olin College of Engineering

Commencement 2025 is an opportunity for the entire Olin community to come together and celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2025.

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Blog Entry Students participate in a Design Nature activity on Olin's campus.

Explore Olin at Our Fall Open House

September 12, 2024 - 10:01AM EDT ">The Office of Admission & Financial Aid

Come learn about Olin at our Fall Open House on Saturday, September 28th from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM!

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Blog Entry Two Olin College of Engineering students study together, with papers and bright-colored sticky notes laid out on a brown, wooded table, in one of Olin's Collaborative Design studio on campus.

The Voices of Olin's Class of 2028: College Essay Snippets

August 21, 2024 - 3:55PM EDT ">The Office of Admission & Financial Aid

As application season nears, we wanted to extend our Voices of Olin series (Part 1 and Part 2 link) with a new installment from the Class of 2028. The college essay is an opportunity to showcase your individuality and as such, embrace the age old saying “there’s only one you.”

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Decision release is coming

March 22, 2024 - 5:09PM EDT ">Salvadore Liberto

2:47pm is the time. What's the date?

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