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On April 23, Bret Richmond and Jeffrey Satwicz, along with their Babson MBA teammates, will be competing in the Babson College Douglass Foundation Graduate Business Plan Competition. The competition, which is part of Babson College's Founder's Day activities, will begin at 8:00 a.m. in the Olin auditorium, Olin Hall, Babson College.
If they are chosen as the winners, Bret and Jeff and their teammates will be awarded $20,000 plus services in kind from corporate partners. The Olin College community is invited to show their support for Bret and Jeff. For more information visit, www.babson.edu/Founders-Day.
As an added benefit to employees of Olin College, financial planning services will be offered through Citizens Investment Services Corp. at no cost. This is a great way to plan for your future or prepare for your upcoming retirement. You may contact Marc J Morrow at the number below with questions. Services include the following:
- Retirement Planning
- Investment Review (including 403(b), tax-sheltered annuities)
- Educational Planning
- Estate Planning
Also, ask Marc about free checking with direct deposit to Citizens Bank. Contact Marc J Morrow, Financial Consultant, Citizens Investment Services Corp at (781) 449-7770 or by mail at 133 Chapel Street, Needham MA 02492.
Financial Services would like to invite you to a training session for the new Accountview system. They plan to hold a short training session (approximately one hour) on the following dates:
• May 17 - 1:30 p.m.
• May 25 - 10:00 a.m.
Training will be held in the Computer Lab in the Lower Level of the Olin Center, they have space for 10 people at each session. If you would like to sign up to attend one of these sessions or have any questions, please contact Tricia Benson X2422.
The next “Frankly Gathering” faculty/staff meeting is set for Friday, April 30 from 11 am-12:15 pm, with lunch to follow. The Meeting Committee has been working diligently on planning this event, and would like to extend an invitation to each of you to help determine the agenda. Are there any developments—from admission to the NEASC visit—you'd like to hear more about? Please let the committee know about your interests and concerns, and we'll do our best to seek out the answers and the people who can provide them. Please forward your agenda suggestions to Joe Hunter by 4 pm Friday, 4/16.
The updated holiday schedule has been posted on Blackboard. The schedule can be found under Olin Community> Policies/Procedures > HR Policies.
Open, Olin's LGBT-support organization (previously known as FFLAG), is sponsoring a campus-wide event known as The Day of Silence on Wednesday, April 21. The Day of Silence is a day in which people of all sexual orientations and gender identities who support LGBT rights take a vow of silence (for the whole day or a specified portion of the day) to recognize and protest the silence that LGBT people face each day.
Open is providing stickers for all those who wish to participate in this event—both those actively participating and those who would like to participate but cannot due to previous obligations. Cards with more information concerning The Day of Silence will also be provided to participants intending to remain silent. Stickers and cards will be available on April 20 in the Campus Center Dining Hall. Those who participate and support this event are invited to attend a dinner at 6:00 p.m. in the Dining Hall. This meal will be co-sponsored by the Office of Student Life; faculty and staff meals will be free of charge. The dinner will conclude with a very general and informal student-led discussion.
Some of you are already aware of the Solar Car Independent Study that started this semester. Our initial goal was to use this semester for research and design with the ultimate goal of racing in a competition next spring. After reading, The Winning Solar Car: A Design Guide for Race Teams, researching other team's designs, and talking to our advisor (as well as the machine shop guys), we decided to revise our goals. Gill brought to our attention the Grand DARPA Challenge, an autonomous vehicle competition in the desert of California and Nevada. This race seems to incorporate the philosophy of Olin regarding innovation and practicality. The challenge would incorporate ME in designing for the off-road capabilities of the vehicle as well as ECE/CS in the control systems for autonomous behavior. Thus, our present goal is to compete in the second Grand DARPA Challenge which will be held in the spring of 2006, which will give us adequate time to prepare. As preparation for DARPA, mainly for experience in car construction and design purposes, we aim to compete in the SAE Mini-Baja off-road vehicle competition in the spring of 2005. This competition will give us insight into the off-road aspect of DARPA.
Right now, we are looking into our options regarding funding for both endeavors. We have been in contact with Corporate Relations, OIR and VP Institutional Advancement to get information about sources of funding. However, if any of you have contacts at companies that would possibly be willing to support us, that would be great. We are looking for sponsorship from larger corporations in the form of monetary grants as well as businesses that would be willing to donate materials. Our project will require a variety of materials ranging from steel tubing to electronic components. At this point, we know we will need various sensor arrays, tires, suspension and transmission components, wireless communication, GPS, and software; however, other items of use will be determined when we are further along in the design process. If you or any of your colleagues at other institutions and/or corporations are particularly knowledgeable in the fields essential to the success of our PROJECT, any input or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Please contact Matthew Brouillard through email OR by phone at 781-454-9117. Thank you so much for your support!
The latest issue of Innovations is now available in the Communication Office. If you would like a copy please contact Krissy Raposa.
The Knowledge Management Commiteee has created some helpful Blackboard documents, including policies and procedures, a FAQ, and information about course builder (site content editor) access. Please see the documents included in the Olin Community on Blackboard at MY ORGANIZATIONS> OLIN COMMUNITY> POLICIES/PROCEDURES > BLACKBOARD RESOURCES. Email CommunityBb@olin.edu with questions or comments about the Olin Community on Blackboard.
Both can also be found in Outlook under Public Folders > Calendars.
A friendly reminder form committees to post their meetings on the committee calendar.
President Miller is speaking to a group of Boston area entrepreneurs and CEOs on April 22. This talk is open to the entire Olin community. He will be focusing on the start-up aspects of Olin College, such as start-up decision making, financial resource planning, marketing needs, etc. The topic of the talk is “Venture Philanthropy and the Founding of Olin College.” The event will take in the Olin College Auditorium.
An email already sent out by Announcements on behalf of Professor Heape, detailed the need for a renewed and expanded understanding of design to further the integration of design qualities into engineering education. In an effort to fill the gap, Professors Heape and Linder invite the community to discuss an expanded understanding of design in their talk, “Design as the Construction and Negotiation of Meaning” on April 30 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. in the Olin auditorium. The entire Olin community is invited to attend.
Volvo's new concept car, the first car in the more than 100 years of auto manufacturing designed and developed almost exclusively by women, with the needs of everyone in mind, will be on display at Wellesley April 27-29. A lecture about the new car will take place on Thursday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m. at Wellesley. The lecture will be presented by a team that helped design and develop the car. Olin students are welcome to view the display and attend the lecture. Click here for more information.
As five Automated External Defibrillators (AED) are being installed on campus, the Olin Shock Corps will be offering AED/CPR training to the Olin community. By Massachusetts law, this training is necessary for any individual to use an AED in an emergency situation. The course runs for approximately three hours and all participants receive an AHA HeartSaver AED certification card upon successful completion. All courses teach proper response to choking, respiratory arrest, and cardiac arrest in adults. Courses taught after April 21 will also include infant CPR. The courses currently being offered are:
- April 14: 2:00-5:30 p.m.
- April 16: 2:00-5:30 p.m.
- April 20: 1:00-4:00 p.m.
- April 21: 2:00-5:30 p.m. and 6:30-9:00 p.m.
- April 23 (includes infant CPR): 2:00-5:30 p.m.
- April 24 (includes infant CPR): 9:00-12:30 p.m.
Shock Corps will be offering other classes later in the year. To sign up for a class, please email Caitlin Foley with the date and time of the desired class.
The Olin HR/Training update is now available. The update includes information about take your daughters and sons to work day, lunchtime seminars, first annual banana splittn' day, cancer control month, pipe organ pops and Glavin Family Chapel events.
An open discussion on the topic of experiencing engineering through women's eyes will take place on April 16 from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in OC 373 (conference room). If you have questions contact Cheryl Inouye, Kate Walsh, Etosha Cave or Alison Lee.
The library has announced an upcoming focus group session on April 28 starting at 4 p.m. The basic exercise will take 30-60 minutes, but staff will be on hand until 7 p.m. for latecomers or those who wish to discuss topics in depth. The focus will be on the library website: What are the students looking for in terms of new features, improvements, and services? Pizza and other refreshments will be served.
On April 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., FWOP will host an acting workshop taught by Jon Lipsky from the College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre Arts, Boston University. Lipsky is an accomplished director and writer, with a particular focus in scientific plays, which he aptly refers to as “The Science in Drama, the Drama in Science.” The day's schedule includes:
- 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. - Touch on personal/physical work, character work, and the shaping of text, with ensemble exercises to warm up.
- 12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
- 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. - Open reading of QED by Peter Parnell, a play about Richard Feynman, with a discussion following .
All are welcome and invited the workshop, which will take place at Olin. Please contact Nick Zola if you'd like to participate.
The Babson commencement committee needs volunteers to assist them in making this year's commencement exercises the most memorable yet. There are a variety of different host opportunities for the May 15 commencement for both the morning and/or afternoon ceremonies (marching and marshalling are not included). The undergraduate ceremony begins at 10:00 a.m. and host duties fall between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. The graduate ceremony begins at 2:30 p.m. and host duties fall between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. A thank you luncheon for all hosts will be provided at the CEE between ceremonies.
If you are interested in volunteering please e-mail Tamar Salter with the following information:
Per Human Resources, if you are a non-exempt employee, you must be compensated for this time. You must get approval for this compensation from your manager.
Mark your calendar for April 25, the annual Newton Serves day, sponsored by the Office of Volunteerism. This citywide servathon coordinates 40 project sites, including over 1000 volunteers! For more information, call Bev Droz at 617-796-1290.
A double elimination 4v4 sand volleyball tournament will be held on April 25 11am-7pm. More teams are needed for the tournament. If you are interested, send Andrew Dutton your roster, team name and captain name and phone number as soon as possible.
Rabbits and hamsters love to eat, but it can be expensive to buy all that food. The Dedham Animal Shelter is planning to plant a vegetable garden on April 24 from 2:00-6:00 p.m. (stay as long as you like). The garden will contain vegetables like spinach and lettuce to feed to the residents of the shelter. If you'd like to help, contact Joelle Arnold.
Get Ready To "Shake Your Groove Thing" with the Babson Dance Ensemble. Come watch Ali Badala, Matty Brouillard, Etosha Cave, Lilly Cho, Susan Fredholm, Lindsay Gordon, James Krejcarek, Molly McCormack and Molly Trombley-McCann perform. Ali, Etosha, and Lilly are also choreographing, so make sure to come out and support Babson and Olin during one of the show times: April 22, 23 and 24 at 8:00 p.m. All performances will take place in the Carling-Sorenson Theatre in the Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College. Tickets go on sale April 19 for $8 at the Reynolds info desk.
EXCERPT: Joanne Kossuth, CIO for Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, a Needham, Mass., school that opened in the fall of 2002. She says her staff of 12 then finds it easier to enlist support for more formalized, and rigorous, security measures.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/tech/nextnews/nexthome.htm
In the last edition of The Link we what the first recruiting publication sent out by Olin College declared to its recipients. Susan Fredholm answered correctly that the publication (sent to college-bound seniors) noted the recipients “could not get into our college.” Susan will be receiving Olin Gear for her correct response.
Olin trivia buffs, do you know….
Q: What Cornell sports record did F.W. Olin set during his undergrad years?
A: Please send responses to Jennifer Thomas. First correct answer will receive a prize!
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