SCOPE is the culmination of Olin’s project-based curriculum.  Seniors work in multidisciplinary teams of 5-7 students on challenging, full-year engineering projects for partnering corporate sponsors.  Olin works closely with companies and technology clients to develop SCOPE projects that provide exceptional value to the sponsors while providing an important educational experience for our students.

The SCOPE Partnership

• The corporate partner provides a challenging engineering problem that has significance to the sponsor.
• Olin College provides a world-class student engineering team, a faculty advisor, and a dedicated, professionally-equipped work space.

What the Student Team Brings

• A fresh perspective to examine engineering problems and find unexpected solutions.
• Extensive hands-on experience, rapid-prototyping skills, and team-based training.
• Expertise in design, entrepreneurship, and interdisciplinary methodology.

Resources for the Student Team

• The corporate partner provides financial support, access to corporate, technical and market expertise, hardware and test facilities, as needed.
• Teams have access to the Olin technology base and an Olin technical expert group, as well as the Olin laboratory and machine shop facilities.

Communication and Reporting

• Each team’s project manager provides weekly progress reports to the sponsor liaison to ensure that the project is meeting the goals of the sponsor.
• SCOPE teams hold bi-weekly design reviews to defend their design and engineering work and get feedback from faculty and industry advisors.
• Students and faculty function under appropriate non-disclosure agreements to protect sensitive interests of the sponsors.
• The teams deliver formal mid-year and final reports to the sponsors.

Additional Information

For more information about the SCOPE program, please email scope@olin.edu: