People are more likely to improve themselves, their communities and the world if the change is simpler, more desirable, cheaper and easier than the current option, and the activation energy to switch ...
In my GCSP portfolio, I reflect upon the connections between teaching (my lifelong calling) and my major occupations at Olin College. I describe how five roughly chronological experiences – a year-lon...
My Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) work has focused around the area of Joy of Living. As an engineer, my goal is to mitigate challenges in people’s lives wherever possible. This can be seen th...
We can create tools for ourselves, and for our loved ones. Everyone has the power and access to solve problems. These are ideas that need reinforcing in our societies. I came to fully believe them dur...
Despite the fact that I will graduate with a BS in “Mechanical Engineering” on my diploma in a week, I feel that I also enjoy many other aspects of the world. I have been figuring out how to tie them ...
At Olin, I have learned to explain that engineering is about technical problem-solving. Moreover, I whole-heartedly believe that as an engineer I bring together systems, technologies, design, and peop...
This portfolio describes my work in the five areas required of Scholars by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program. I review my activities in those areas, their outcomes, and my growth as a result. I als...
I believe I have worked towards the Grand Challenge of advancing personalized learning. My efforts, which span teaching, research, and curriculum development, have helped address the need for changes ...
The Grand Challenge Program has instilled five important areas of personal development within me, including awareness of global needs, interdisciplinary skills, entrepreneurial skills, service respons...
This project reflects upon the author's experiences in the five areas of study prescribed by the Grand challenge Scholars Program, with a focus on his work developing educational materials for the oli...
This project reflects upon the author's experiences in the five areas of study requested by the Grand Challenge Scholars program, specifically her research on bacterial metabolism. the focus is on how...
My Olin courses and projects are never without a greater meaning or message beyond their immediate context. Professors are quick to point out the importance of having a view greater than just your pro...
This is my portfolio for the Grand Challenge Scholars Program. In this portfolio, I reflect on my experiences at Olin College within the following five areas: entrepreneurial experience, global awaren...
As a learner at Olin College, a citizen of India who sees the challenges of the developing world, and an engineering student who wants to address developing world issues with technology, I hope to be ...
Throughout Olin, I have slowly defined what engineering means to me and what I want to do with it. The broad impact of engineering that I started with has narrowed down to a desire to provide clean an...
How is it possible for us to appropriately analyze our experiences and take useful action? My experiences over the past few years suggest that it’s crucial to study and act at the same time – a challe...
This project focuses on the author's experiences in five subject areas defined by the Grand Challenge Scholars and the lessons she learned from each experience, focusing on her internship at the textb...
Through this strategy I’ve been able to build my skills in many areas essential to the projects I’ve done in the past, and hope to do in the future. In fact, I’ve found that there is a subset of skill...
This portfolio summarizes and reflects upon the author's experiences in the five areas noted by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, with the theme of sustainability as motivation. Reflections focus ...
This project discusses the author's experiences with five areas of study determined by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program. It focuses on his work building a cassava processor for women in Ghana and ...
In the winter of 2010, I created my own company in Nicaragua. I encouraged one of my cousins, then a first-year at Stanford, to join me as co-founder. With mutual interests in education, engineering, ...
This portfolio is a compilation of experiences related to the Grand Challenges area of Engineering Better Medicines. I spent six months working in India for a startup called Embrace Innovations to dev...
This project is themed around the author's desire to help others and how this has affected her experiences in the five educational areas required by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program. Each experien...
This portfolio describes the author's experiences in five areas o0f learning specified by the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, focusing especially on Habitat for Humanity.
For me, solving grand challenges is about making real progress and being open to new paradigms. The grand challenge of solar energy absolutely needs the support of research scientists in the lab, but ...
