2020 (Virtual) Year-End Projects
A look into Olin's year-end classes & projects.
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At One College, Women Engineers Help Reshape The Machine Shop
Only about 20 percent of undergraduate engineering degrees in this country go to women. Olin College, a prestigious engineering college in Needham, is proud to be an outlier: Half its students are women. The school, which also prides itself on offering classes that focus on project-based learning...
General Mantra
The Shop is a space to take care of This space is yours, but it also belongs to everyone else in the community regardless of their position in the college or the major they plan to leave with. Your project is never more important than your physical safety. If you believe there is a chance that an...
Shop Usage & Safety
Overview Fabrication activities play an important role in the curriculum and extracurricular activities at Olin College. Promoting and maintaining a culture of safety depends on the individual behavior of everyone: students, staff, and faculty. We must look out for each other, teach each other and...
Storage
The Shop is a shared work space. Due to limited space, nothing can be stored in the Shop. A limited number of bins are available for storing project items outside the Shop. Items and bins must be tagged with your name. Take note, the MakerSpace is cleaned out at the end of each spring semester, so...
FAQ
Is the Shop open to people outside of Olin College? The equipment can be used by Olin College, Wellesley College, Babson College and Brandeis University students, staff and faculty. Babson, Wellesley and Brandeis affiliates must sign our waiver and bring it to the Shop prior to getting trained. How...
About
Welcome to the Shop Olin College has re-imagined its Shop from a traditional, production-focused facility to an active learning enviornment. A large focus of the initiative is on student growth and development. The Shop has also been charged with integrating the College’s fabrication resources within the curriculum in a more meaningful manner. This means better aligning the Shop with academic courses, increasing accessibility of equipment and spaces and establishing a culture of safety and stewardship with the Olin community. Several of...
Woodworking
Training Overview Woodworking trainings include Fundamentals, Hand Tools, Woodlathe, Roughing, and Finishing. Note that Fundamentals training is a pre-requisite for all other trainings in the Wood Shop. Training Type Pre-Requisite # of Sessions / Time Required Relevant Documents Fundamentals Green...
Machining
Training Overview Machining trainings include the Mill and the Lathe. Both of these machines have trainings for various levels of expertise, going from Fundamentals to CNC. Training Type Pre-Requisite # of Sessions / Time Required Relevant Documents Mill - Fundamentals Green Machine 1 / 120 mins...
Culture
The Olin Shop's guiding principles: Learning Over Production: Making mistakes, experimenting, and individual autonomy are critical to learning and improving People Over Process: Policies are a dynamic process Community Over Control: Creation & evolution not handed down Empathy Over Efficiency: Sense...