OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Boston, USA, April 2024

Company Description

Olin was founded to radically change engineering education with the goal of fueling the technical innovation needed to solve the world’s complex future challenges. In 1997, the F.W. Olin Foundation established the college with a visionary and unprecedented grant “to be an important and constant contributor to the advancement of engineering education in America and throughout the world.” From day one, Olin had no departments or tenured faculty, allowing for true collaboration and integration of efforts.

Review & Rating

Great place to improve your Ultimate skills. They have disc golf too if you want to branch out a bit.

I spent four years here. The food was pretty good, the decor was appropriately minimalist and utilitarian, but the service was definitely hit or miss. The professors were fantastic, the administration... not so much.

I attended the I2E2 conference at Olin College this summer, and the experience was truly transformational! The administrators and faculty at Olin College are genuine and transparent in their catalytic support of educational transformation within other institutions. I believe that Olin College is a case of punctuated equilibrium in the evolution of engineering education, and their pedagogy is already impacting engineering education and practice around the world.

Institution waffles about gigantic art installations such as 7' snow cubes. Education was passable, however.

One time in class, a professor asked one of those "raise your hand if you've heard of ______" questions that are commonly asked before diving into a new topic. As always, some students raised their hands half-way, hesitant in their own recollection. What came next was likely a lifetime of waiting for the perfect opportunity. Hell, maybe the professor became a professor for the sole purpose of having the opportunity to make this joke. He said, in the exact words that I will never forget: "Okay. I see some hands and I see some Parkinson's." And that was the best moment of my college career.