Comments on: Olin Engineering Education Experiment

By: CuriousCat: Google 3D Campus Competition

CuriousCat: Google 3D Campus Competition — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:43:01 +0000

The seven winning teams (including one from the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering) visited Google’s Mountain View Headquarters.

By: CuriousCat: Re-engineering Engineering Education

CuriousCat: Re-engineering Engineering Education — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:31:43 +0000

“Students also experience the business world firsthand through Olin’s senior consulting program for engineering. This year 12 corporations — including Boeing, Boston Scientific, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM — paid Olin a combined $700,000 to have groups of five seniors serve as consultants for a full academic year…”

By: CuriousCat: Educating Engineering Geeks

CuriousCat: Educating Engineering Geeks — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:06:24 +0000

“So MIT must shift gears, and embrace two basic missions: continuing to produce world-class experts (geeks) – practicing engineers who design complicated systems – and generating world-class leaders (chiefs), who will deploy their technological expertise in the real-world…”

By: Cutting-Edge Science and Engineering Programs « World of Engineering

Cutting-Edge Science and Engineering Programs « World of Engineering — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:18:02 +0000

This post comes from the “Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog” by John Hunter. It is about very innovative engineering programs highlighted in the latest Popular Mechanics. Following is the quote of the post by John…

By: Curious Cat: Innovative Science and Engineer Higher Education

Curious Cat: Innovative Science and Engineer Higher Education — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:17:45 +0000

“the real fun happens in the research labs, where students work on projects such as a slithering snake robot for search-and-rescue missions…”

By: Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog » Blog Archive » A New Engineering Education

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:14:29 +0000

[...] See our previous posts: Olin Engineering Education Experiment – Improving Engineering Education UW has been able to turn around a dismal attrition rate in the early 1990s, when two-thirds of engineering students didn’t stick with the program. Today, close to 60% of engineering students graduate with a degree in the field, he said. [...]

By: Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog » Blog Archive » New Engineering School for England

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:35:00 +0000

“students will be encouraged to apply their theoretical learnings from maths, science and other subjects in a real world context using the most up-to-date technology and equipment made available in the School…”

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Blog Archive » Improving Engineering Education

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:49:18 +0000

[...] On our Science and Engineering blog I just posted on the Olin Engineering Education Experiment. It is a great story of doing things differently. [...]

By: CuriousCat: Engineering Education Program for k-12

CuriousCat: Engineering Education Program for k-12 — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:52:05 +0000

“a national program forming partnerships among Public Schools, Higher Education Institutions and the Private Sector to increase the quantity and quality of engineers and engineering technologists graduating from our education system…”