What is EPICS?
- Hands-on design classes
- First-year through seniors enrolled
- Faculty and graduate student mentors
- Teams operate in a research and development context related to faculty expertise and/or national, international, and industry-sponsored design challenges
- Longer-term (more than one semester or year) multi-disciplinary projects and teams
Expectations of EPICS Advisors:
- Ensure mentorship of projects on a weekly basis
- Support EPICS course expectations (participation in professional development activities, peer evaluations, etc.)
- Complete assessment of students (mid-term and final assessment/grading, enter grades into myPurdue)
- Goal to offer team multiple semesters/years
Benefits to EPICS Advisors:
- EPICS provides administrative support and curricular structure for mentoring undergraduate design teams
- Curricular structure = scheduling, syllabus, professional development opportunities, assessment process, limited TA admin support
- Ability to explore new design areas and identify potential graduate students
- Help meet education outcomes grants & mentoring goals for promotion/tenure
- NSF Supplemental Funding Opportunity: Supplemental Funding Opportunity to Support Student Design Projects Directly Related to NSF Research ($4k per team, annually for active projects). Participating Divisions - Directorate for Engineering
- Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)
- Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
- Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (ECCS)
Interested in mentoring a new EPICS team?
