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.
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...
The Shop staff and a set of highly trained students provides training in shop operations to the Olin Community before anybody can use the machine shop equipment. The Olin shop is staffed by four full-time professionals, who offer short courses and semester-long courses in machine shop operations to...