Program goals

Olin’s academic programs are designed to support the institutional mission of preparing students to become engineering innovators. From a content perspective, the curricular emphases on engineering, analysis, design, and entrepreneurship are specifically aligned with the mission; through these experiences, students acquire facility in identifying needs, generating concepts that are responsive to people’s needs, turning those concepts into technically realizable solutions, and marshaling the resources necessary to turn a vision into reality. The general education requirements support the graduation of liberally educated individuals who consider the ethical consequences of their work and create paradigms in which they can use their engineering education to effect positive change.

After graduation, Olin students in the Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering programs will demonstrate attainment of the following objectives:

Graduates strengthen the teams and communities they are part of by cultivating collaboration, effective communication and leadership.
Graduates apply a multi-disciplinary engineering approach to solving important technical and societal challenges.
Graduates create value for society through entrepreneurial and design thinking that transforms needs and opportunities into systems, products and solutions.
Graduates adaptively and independently extend their learning to excel in fields about which they are passionate.