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Olin’s Expo: 90 Projects in 4 Hours

The Olin community gathered in the Academic Center on Monday, December 16, 2019 to take in the sights and sounds of Olin’s fall Expo. At this end-of-semester celebration of student learning and achievement, students share their project work through poster sessions, interactive demonstrations and artistic performances.

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A student in pink shirt and shorts walks into the Academic Center building with green tree branches encroaching into the frame.

Amateur Radio and Satellite Communications Launch at Olin

On a dark night in November, a group of Olin students huddled together around a ham radio. Static hissed, and a voice crackled to life. “I can hear you. Can you hear me?”

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A sketch of engineering formulas on a white notepad in different color pens.

The Enigma Machine

A secret device used in WWII to encrypt and decrypt war messages, the Enigma Machine has a storied history. Olin students from the Principles of Engineering course recently had the idea to reach into that past and provide a fresh take on a historic machine.

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Olin’s Second Creative in Reference Takes Flight with Help From Olin Students

The email that came into Bennett Taylor's inbox in July seemed simple enough. Tom Pearson, this academic year's Sketch Model Creative-In-Reference*, was looking for a student to help him design mechanical costumes for a show in mid-October in San Diego. But it soon became clear to Taylor '22 that this was no ordinary theatrical production.

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A robotics demonstration at Olin College

Working Together: Humans and Robots

Gretchen Rice ’20 believes working beside a robot should be no different than working with a human being. “You can't really implement robots into the world if humans aren’t comfortable interacting with them or humans don't understand them,” Rice says.

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Techtile

During a recent Principles of Engineering course, a team of Olin students set out to develop a braille printer that could convert musical instrument digital interface files into braille sheet music. The idea was to offer an accessible way for visually impaired musicians to access digitized music and to be able to have the music in sheet format, without having to search in a store.