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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...

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...

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...

Keeping Hands-On Activities During Remote Learning

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.