Partnerships

Partnering for impact helps business leaders, innovators, non-profits, and educators amplify their impact and drive systemic change.  

At Olin, we collaborate with organizations of many kinds to create real-world impact.

Working together, we leverage collective resources and expertise to create innovative solutions that address complex social and environmental challenges.

Our impact-aligned partnerships offer a powerful opportunity for students to have a positive effect on society and the environment, while also driving business growth and innovation.

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Academic Partners

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Partnership is a Key Part of Olin's Strategic Plan

Working in partnership with like-minded organizations and institutions is essential to Olin’s Strategic Plan for making engineering education and engineering practice benefit everyone.  

We are creating the curriculum and scaffolding to engage a greater number of Olin students, faculty, and staff in experiences that make meaningful real-world impact. We are also identifying businesses, organizations, and communities that share our vision.  

By working together, we learn from one another, build a powerful network of values-aligned individuals and institutions, and create authentic and tangible impact. 

Featured Stories

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Improving Cancer Diagnostic Accuracy During ERCP Procedures

Sponsor: Boston Scientific

Faculty Advisor: Lynn Andrea Stein

Boston Scientific has tasked the 2022-2023 BSC SCOPE team with the challenge of improving the current state of their cytology brush and to create a more accurate and efficient tool for physicians.

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Greentown Labs - Climate Action at Work

Greentown Labs is the largest ClimateTech startup incubator in North America. Olin is a Megawatt Partner to Greentown Labs, encouraging impact-centered collaboration between Olin students, faculty, and alumni and ClimateTech startups working on innovative technologies in alternative energy, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation and building efficiency.

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Co-Designing Assistive Apps with Students Who are Blind

Faculty Lead: Paul Ruvolo

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Article Students in Jean Huang's Biology lab study effectives of compost tea in small planters.

STORY: Educational Partnership with Local Compost Company Grows Impact-Centered Education at Olin

In Jean Huang's Biology foundation class, “Think Like a Biologist,” students and professor are engaged in a unique partnership with a local compost company - Black Earth Compost, who's sponsoring the lab portion of the class for the entire semester.

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Air Partners + Aerodyne Research

Sponsor: Air Partners / Aerodyne Research

Faculty Advisor: Alessandra Ferzoco

As a part of the NIH-funded HAFTRAP project, the AirPartners/Aerodyne SCOPE team created an integrated air quality measurement system that included both low and high-cost atmospheric chemistry instruments.

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Partnership Opportunities and Examples

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The MIRROR

Olin College's MIRROR (Movement to Invest in Reciprocity & Re-imagine Outreach Relationships) presents an alternative to traditional community outreach.

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The Story Lab at Olin

The Olin Story Lab advances Olin’s mission of “engineering for everyone” by designing and coaching storytelling experiences. From expert speakers to brand new storytellers, we work with a range of individuals and organizations to amplify stories that might not otherwise be heard.

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Sketch Model

Sketch Model at Olin College explored how the humanities and arts show up in the STEM classroom, beyond easy claims for STEAM-style interdisciplinarity - in residencies, summer internships, and STEM-arts collaborations. Seeking the much deeper "why" and "should" questions and how they shape the technologies we build.

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Collin Murray

Often when we work with universities on exploratory efforts,

we discuss whether we need a parallel internal effort to make sure cover all the possible designs and produce a high level of project closeout. The teams from Olin are so passionate and multidisciplinary that with some mentorship they can produce industry level work. This often allows us to make the decision that we don't need to have redundant internal resources on projects. This helps us view Olin as a resource enhancement rather than a drag on our engineers. This results in a mutually beneficial relationship that we look to maintain for a long time.

Collin Murray

Senior R&D Manager, Boston Scientific

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Greentown Labs Partnership

Greentown Labs is a clean tech, engineering incubator with two locations – Somerville, MA and Houston, TX – that provides housing, lab/shop space and other support to 200+ climateTech startups. In Fall of ‘21, Olin and Greentown Labs signed an LOU bringing Olin on as a Megawatt partner to Greentown.

Since then, our shared goals allow us to plan and execute a series of initiatives that bring collaboration, innovation and diversity to both organizations.

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Have ideas for other ways to collaborate?

 

We welcome you to reach out to our office to explore partnership opportunities.

General inquiries should contact us at oepp@olin.edu.