[Epics-india] EPICS Pre-Semester Announcements

[Pierce, Andrew L]

Important EPICS Pre-Semester Announcements
________________________________
Welcome Students
Welcome to the EPICS family new students, and welcome back to the returners. We are excited to see the impact you will make in the community through your work this semester. There are some changes for this semester, so please pay careful attention to the announcements below.
________________________________
Design Storm - $500 in Prizes and Earn EPICS PDHs!
I strongly encourage you to put your design skills to work by taking part in Design Storm, a one-day design competition to help address urgent and unique needs on islands affected by the recent hurricanes. This competition, open to all Purdue students, will challenge teams of up to 5 students to create concepts and prototypes for cooking, pumping water, storing food and medicine, and providing communications in the wake of a major natural disaster. These concepts will be further developed throughout the semester by the new Natural Disaster Preparedness EPICS team. PDHs will be awarded to all participating EPICS students and prizes will be award to the best designs in several categories.
Register at http://tinyurl.com/designstorm
________________________________
Professional Development Hours   (PDHs)
All students are required to complete a number of PDHs throughout the semester. The requirements are listed in the PDH Menu<https://sharepoint.ecn.purdue.edu/epics/teams/Public%20Documents/PDH%20Menu.pdf>.

All first time students will need to watch the Introduction to EPICS<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc0ibrJx9X0nupwJAyql2G1nJySiF0k-3> playlist on YouTube before the first lab.

Instructions for Logging Online Lecture Completion:

1)      Watch all videos in the appropriate playlist. It is a good idea to subscribe to the EPICS Youtube channel.

2)      Login to MyEPICS<https://engineering.purdue.edu/MyEpics/> using your Purdue career account.

3)      Click View Activities, select 'All' in the 'Show' dropdown, and find activity with the naming matching the playlist.

4)      Click 'Makeup', fill out the form, and click 'Submit'

________________________________
EPICS Website
New students will want to become familiar with the EPICS website, where you will find the syllabus, lab and lecture schedule, assignments (milestones), and more.
See https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/purdue.
________________________________
Important Dates
Design Review

*         All EPICS teams present to outside reviewers two times per semester. For Spring, those will be weeks 7 and 15.

*         Midterm Review: February 19-23

*         Final Review: April 16-20
Awards Open House

*         We will recognize our outstanding students and teams, as well as celebrate our delivered project from the 2017/2018 school year.

*         Friends and family are welcome to join in the celebration, tour the lab, and get an inside look at your work in EPICS.

*         Open House: April 16

________________________________

Andrew Pierce
EPICS Academic Administrator
Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering - Room 1209
701 West Stadium Avenue
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045
Email: pierce1 at purdue.edu<mailto:pierce1 at purdue.edu>
Phone: (765) 414-2107
http://www.purdue.edu/epics



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: </ECN/mailman/archives/epics-india/attachments/20180103/d32a2e66/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: EPICS DESIGN STORM FLYER 2017 - Dec 8.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 2416160 bytes
Desc: EPICS DESIGN STORM FLYER 2017 - Dec 8.pdf
URL: </ECN/mailman/archives/epics-india/attachments/20180103/d32a2e66/attachment-0001.pdf>