Olin Releases 2024-2025 Annual Report

The Brooke Owens Fellowship is a nationally acclaimed nonprofit program recognizing exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities with space and aviation internships, senior mentorship, and a lifelong professional network.

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Navya Tiwari ’28 and Anika Mahesh ’28 worked withcommunity co-designer Phil, a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) user, to design a wearable system that enhances both comfort and accessibility for individuals relying on an LVAD. Navya and Anika won the Most Functional Award for their final design.

The whole IATH experience, say the Oliners, felt like genuine validation of what thoughtful, humancentered design can accomplish.

"We relied greatly on what we had learned from Olin about teamwork, iteration and listening carefully to real user needs. In the end, knowing that our work would actually help someone made the experience really worth it,” said Navya.

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Lee and Olin PInT received the Undergraduate Honorable Mention in the Social Sciences category and were recognized in the April edition of Science.

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Congratulations to Darian Jimenez ’27, Gabe Zak ’25, Rhea Rastogi ’28 (Stanford), Maya Adelman ’27, Jeffrey Woodyard ’27.

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Organizers stretched the hackathon out over four weeks with the goal of “creating real, meaningful outcomes,” says Hosea Siu, Ph.D., the hackathon director and a seasoned hackathon organizer and AI researcher.

When it came time to form teams around the obstacles explored in the lectures, Timur chose an area where he believed he could make the most difference: humanitarian de-mining—the process of clearing land of mines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) to protect civilians and facilitate their return to normal life.

"Being born in Ukraine and still having connections to the country, I had always wanted to support its recovery in any way I could. That opportunity started to become real when I came to Olin and began to learn how I could apply my engineering education toward helping them to rebuild,” said Timur.

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During the yearlong contest, student teams developed creative farming solutions to advance innovation in agriculture using the farm-ng Amiga robot platform and leveraging AI, machine learning, automation, coding and fabrication. The Olin team collaborated with farmers at The Trustees’ Powisset Farm, a working community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm with over 300 years of agricultural history in Dover, Mass.

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Each year, Zastavker, professor of physics and education, brings students from her Education Research group to FIE—a major international conference focusing on educational innovations and research in engineering and computing education.

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"We very intentionally chose to scope the amount of work based on the one-year cycle. In everything we designed, we thought about Design for Manufacturing (DFM), reliability, and how we could decrease timeline risk as much as possible,” said project manager Meagan Lipsman ’26. 

The team discovered a battery leak during the SAE competition’s rain test (which involves spraying the car with water for 2 minutes and ensuring nothing fails) but ultimately turned that setback into an opportunity for on-the-ground problem solving and teamwork.

“The whole team came together to support and help the effort of debugging, disassembling and then attempting to fix the car after the leak was found. We had people as runners to get tools, we had the electrical members diagnosing circuit board issues, accumulator members drying and repairing the battery, and we even had members who weren’t at the comp on the phone to help us. It was truly an inspiring moment of camaraderie and perseverance,” said Jake Hamilton ’28. 

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