In episode three of Sketch Model, Sara is joined by Olin College's Lynn Andrea Stein, professor of computer and cognitive science. In this episode, the podcast takes a look at the origins of our own institution: Olin College of Engineering.

Olin was started a little over 20 years ago to reinvent engineering education for the 21st century. What would engineers need to know and experience? And then what kinds of curricular structures might bring those ideas to life? There was a partner year before the college even opened its doors, where students came to a not-yet-finished campus and thought it through, alongside faculty with a wide latitude and a lot of imagination. We wanted to hear about what that felt like in the 1990s from one of our founding faculty members. Stein takes us to that moment in engineering education more broadly: startup culture, the early days of the internet, and the need for design in engineering education.

Sketch Model / Presented by Olin College of Engineering is a new audio series about the engineering classroom and how the humanistic disciplines of the arts, the humanities and the social sciences shape the "why" and "should" questions about the technologies we build. The podcast will talk about some of the surprising trends that are happening in engineering education now and will discuss the history of ethics and politics among engineers over the last century.

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Sketch Model is created, hosted, and produced by Sara Hendren and edited by Brian Funck.
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