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Materials

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...

Archives

MEC 1000 Technical Drawing Handout Project Handouts Project 1 - Lathe Chuck Jaw Measurement Project 2A - Hole Transfer Project 2B - Hand Filing Project 3A - Draw and Dimension Lathe Chuck Jaw Project 3B - Draw and Dimension Vise Jaw Project 3C - Draw and Dimension Control Bracket Project 4 - Sheet...

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...

Reference Guides

Olin Quick Guides Drill Press Bandsaw Belt Sander 3D Printers - FDM Laser Cutter - Helix Laser Cutter - Trotec Table Saw BOW Posters Glue Gun Knife Drill & Impact Driver Drill Press Bandsaw Soldering Iron 3D Printer - FDM 3D Printer - SLA/Resin Laser Cutter Miter Saw Machining Resources Drilling and...

Foundational Trainings

Training Overview Foundational trainings include Intro Shop Training (all first-year students attend this training in the first semester, which qualifies them to use the Mini Metal Shop (MAC 108) and the Mini Wood Shop (MAC 207) and LPB training (students who sign up for this either with a project...

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...

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...