The Engineering degree program gives students the option to pursue new engineering and interdisciplinary combinations of engineering and other fields. Each student in the Engineering degree program designs a concentration with depth, breadth, coherence, and rigor and satisfies the Olin College graduation requirements.

In Design Nature, every Olin student gets mechanical engineering experience by designing a toy that hops or swims (mechanical design), building a working prototype of that toy (fabrication), and modeling and predicting the behavior of a system like a monkey swinging from a tree to tree or an exploding fireworks shell (mechanical and thermal analysis).

Every Olin student gets some basic electrical and computer engineering experience. Students learn basic circuit analysis, design, and testing in Modeling and Control in the first year and work with sensors, data acquisition, and signal processing in Real-World Measurements.