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DESIGNING FROM A BLANK SLATE 113

dom of starting with a blank slate, combined with excellent students,
faculty, leadership, and resources, have provided Olin a unique oppor-
tunity to develop new ideas and a culture that welcomes innovation. By
teaching entrepreneurship, social context, creativity with design, and
superb engineering, Olin intends to provide a learning environment
suited to the acquisition and development of knowledge, skills, and
attitudes that will enable Olin graduates to be productive contributors
throughout their lives.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors wish to thank the Olin College faculty for help with
this paper.

REFERENCES

Kerns, D. 1999. Characteristics of Founding Faculty. Needham, Mass.: Olin College.
Miller, R. 2000. Invention 2000. Available online at http://www.olin.edu.

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