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Olin program offers training, solutions

Olin College engineering program aids companies, helps build careers

By Gail Waterhouse

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 30, 2012

John Fox, chief executive of Parietal Systems, Inc. in North Andover, had a tough engineering job and small budget. So he turned to Olin College in Needham, where a team of six engineering students built a robot that would allow Parietal to demonstrate its machine learning software. The students, all seniors, were part of an unusual program at Olin that aims to provide them with real world experience and support the innovations that drive the economy and keep local companies competitive

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