Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Students in Caitrin Lynch's Dirt to Shirt class are tackling issues in the global garment industry. Through collaboration with the Boston social enterprise startup Make Fashion Clean (MFC), students have been tasked with three different projects that focus on the recycling process of secondhand clothing. One team is designing products that could easily be made by craftswomen and that would work for the American market, a second team is learning more about natural dyes and the third team is creating a video for social media. Full story HERE.

In 36 hours, first year Solomon Greenberg and his friend Benjamin Ward, a first year at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, sucessfully automated the process of measuring glucose and injecting insulin for diabetes care at the YHack hackathon at Yale University. Greenberg and Ward won YHack's Grand Prize, beating out some 1,400 competitors. They also won the Best IoT Hack Using a Qualcomm Device and Code4Good Civic Track Original Project awards. Full story HERE.

Provost and Professor of Engineering Vin Manno was featured in a podcast recorded on November 9 at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Vin is featured in Episode 8. Link HERE.

Check out EASE Lab-launched Unruly Studios as featured in Inc. magazine. Former EASE Lab Project Manager, Bryanne Leeming (Babson MBA '16) headlines the article and Advisor, Assistant Professor of Computing and Innovation Amon Millner, makes an appearance in the photo.

We would like to welcome Seth Hodge as Associate Dean of Student Affairs.