Overview The Olin Shop is the place where the ideas and initial concepts of student projects take physical form. Students fabricate project components using a variety of our equipment under the supervision of professional and student instructors. The Shop is used to support a variety of required and...
We have a well equipped welding facility with the capability to weld aluminum, stainless steel, mild steel, magnesium etc. Additionally, we can cut metal using either flame or plasma cutting methods. Additional metal cutting capabilities consist of drilling, milling, turning, surface grinding...
The Shop has a variety of items in the stock market. Just add the items to the checkout kiosk and you are on your way! If your project needs large quantities of materials, please order your items directly from a supplier or through your course budget to avoid depleting our inventory (e.g. > 10...
The Shop is a part of the Higher Education Makerspaces Initiatives (HEMI) . HEMI is " a collaborative of leading universities focused on solving the challenges of academic makerspaces and making their combined learnings available to others ." The collaboration is focused on developing and sharing...
It’s fair to say that when the COVID-19 crisis hit, the Olin community wasn’t exactly excited to disband in-person classes and jump into online learning. “But we learned a ton,” says Daniela Faas , assistant professor and practice and director of Lab & Fabrication Operations.
Training Overview Foundational trainings include Green Training (all first-year students attend this training in the first semester, which qualifies them to use the Green Machine Shop in AC 207) and LPB training (students who sign up for this either with a project team or individually are then...