Ideate, Model, Test: Olin’s MechProto Students Complete the College’s First Build Challenge
Last Friday, students in Georgia Van de Zande’s Mechanical Prototyping (MechProto) course experienced Olin College’s first Build Challenge. Read the article.

 

Welcome Back, KSE!
Welcome back to our colleagues from the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)! The group of 10 faculty and staff arrived on Sun., April 5 and will be here through April 15 as they continue building aspects of the curriculum and culture of their new engineering program. For questions about the KSE visit, please contact Andrew Johnson, Zhenya Zastavker or Lynn Andrea Stein. See the "Coming Up" section for events are open to the entire Olin community.

Erhardt Graeff Featured in New Report from Elon University
Erhardt was featured in a report from Elon University on human resilience in the age of AI. His full essay is entitled "The AI Bargain," and is in the section on Epistemic Vigilance (chapter 9). Read his essay and the report.

 

Two chances to simply be together — come meet the KSE team at the start of their visit and again at the midpoint. Share a conversation, make a connection and be part of the welcome.

 

The KSE Delta Engineering team arrived with work already in hand — curricular goals, learning outcomes, program structure and assessment ideas shaped by months of thinking, debating and building in Kyiv. Join a semi-structured design review in which the KSE team will share where they are and receive the kind of focused, generative response that helps them move forward during their time with us.

DataFest is a nationally coordinated undergraduate competition in which teams of two to five students work over a weekend to extract insight from a rich and complex data set. Students are encouraged to form teams with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds (e.g., a blend of experiences in data computing, statistics, GIS, visualization and the arts, and business and economics).

 

Faculty, staff, alumni and friends of Olin are encouraged to volunteer to mentor student teams. Mentors are essentially team members for 10-15 minutes at a time, and often help teams narrow their research questions, advise on modeling and analysis choices or provide feedback on visualizations and storytelling.

 

Please reach out to David Shuman (dshuman@olin.edu) with any questions. Click here for more information and to register as a student team or volunteer mentor.

 

Just as we support our own students' growth through iterative design reviews, we are offering KSE the same — a second structured opportunity to share what has shifted, what has deepened and what is still unfolding in their curricular thinking since they arrived. Come engage with where the KSE team is now and help them carry something stronger back to Kyiv.

 

To close their visit, the KSE Delta Engineering team will present a series of curricular nuggets — 30-60 minute interactive activities they are designing for integration into their first-year curriculum this fall. By preparing and teaching these snippets at Olin, they are stretching their pedagogic muscles in anticipation of what awaits them in Kyiv. We invite the Olin community to participate as students in these sessions.

 

April 13–17: The Power of Us: Spring Giving Week 

A weeklong celebration of the people who make the Olin community unique and impactful. Follow along as we highlight the stories of:

You’ll see this come to life through social posts, emails and outreach to our broader Olin network. Our goal is to raise 100k during this campaign. We hope you’ll be inspired to join our community and bring the power of us to life. Please contact Laura Dill (ldill@olin.edu) if you’re interested in making phone calls to past supporters to renew their support to Olin.

 

 

Thank you for your participation in oLink's Poll of the Week! National Tater Day was March 31, so we asked people their favorite way to enjoy potatoes. We received 32 responses, and the results are: 

 

Please feel free to reach out to Sarah Clark (sclark@olin.edu) with any feedback or ideas. Enjoy this week's poll, which is inspired by the Artemis II launch! Click here to cast your vote. 

 

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Contact Sarah Clark (sclark@olin.edu).