Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

• A New Kind of Engineering College
• Needham, Massachusetts
• Duncan Murdoch
• November 14, 2002

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Mission and Funding

• Purpose To provide exceptional engineering
  education to bright, and enterprising students at
  little or no cost.
• Funding The F. W. Olin Foundation has provided a
  grant in excess of 400 million.
• Founding Chartered in 1997 by the Commonwealth
  of Massachusetts

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Basic Facts

• Size Projected total enrollment 600.
• Program Undergraduate engineering.
• Majors B.S. in electrical and computer
  engineering, mechanical engineering and
  engineering

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Basic Facts (cont.)

• Curriculum Project-based, team-oriented approach
  emphasizing business and entrepreneurship, arts
  and humanities and rigorous technical
  fundamentals.
• Facilities 500,000 square feet of academic,
  residential and administrative space. Phase 1
  300,000 square feet completed.
• Scholarship All admitted students receive a
  four-year full-tuition scholarship valued at
  120,000.

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Faculty

• Number 21 full-time and 2 academic partners.
• Gender 14 men 9 women.
• Applicants Received more than 2,100 resumes.
• Background Researchers, artists, writers
  musicians, inventors and entrepreneurs.

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Faculty (cont.)

• Research Nationally recognized in their fields
  and will use Olin undergraduates in their
  research activities.
• Innovations No tenure awarded, no academic
  departments faculty is multi-disciplinary.
• Ratio Currently 3 to 1 anticipated ratio of 10
  to 1 at full enrollment of 600 students.

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Admission Profile

• Applicants 1201 applied 96 were admitted
• Enrolled 75 (including 29 Olin Partners, 14
  deferred and 32 true freshmen)
• Gender 38 men and 37 women
• Geography 34 states and Costa Rica

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Admission Profile (cont.)

• Ethnicity 23 percent students of color
• Ave. GPA 4.4 (weighted on a 4.0 scale)
• Valedictorians 20 salutatorians 9
• Testing Middle 50 percent of class scored
  between 1440 and 1530 on the SAT.

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Admission Profile (cont.)

• AP 41 receive recognition in the Advanced
  Placement Program as AP Scholars.
• National Exams 45 percent were finalists in
  National Merit, National Achievement and National
  Hispanic Scholarships.
• Leadership 17 were class presidents 17 academic
  team captains 11 athletic team captains 9
  editors and 50 community service participants.

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