How Does EPICS Count?

The following departments have formally approved how EPICS credit can be used on your plan of study.

College of Agriculture

Natural Resources and Environmental Science (NRES)

  • Counts as capstone experience

College of Engineering

Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

  • Students may use EPICS courses to fulfill a technical elective.

  • Students wishing to use EPICS as a major/minor elective must get permission from the AAE school.

  • Can be approved for appropriate projects but not to satisfy Senior Design requirements in AAE.

Agricultural Engineering

  • EPICS participation counts as an engineering technical elective or free elective.

Biomedical Engineering

  • EPICS participation can count toward technical elective credit for BME.

  • All EPCS courses, up to a maximum of three (3) credits can be used on the Technical Elective Plan of Study.

Chemical Engineering

  • Technical elective-if all three credits are from EPICS

  • Construction and Engineering Management (CEM)

  • EPICS participation can count toward the STS or technical elective

Civil Engineering

  • EPICS participation can count toward technical elective credit for CE. All EPICS (EPCS) courses, including those at the 100- and 200-level, up to a maximum of three (3) credits, can be used on the Technical Elective Plan of Study.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • EE students may count a maximum of 6 credits (not counting those used for Senior Design) as EE Special Content Elective credits, which may also be used for 2 of the 3 advanced-level labs once the 20000-level labs are complete.

  • CmpE students may count a maximum of 6 credits of EPICS (not counting those used for Senior Design) as Computer Engineering Special Content Elective credits.

  • EE and CmpE senior design – two consecutive semester experience where EPCS 41200 is taken twice for a total of 4 credits.

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

  • EPICS participation can count toward EEE Selective, Technical Elective, and/or Senior Design requirements, although under any scenario a maximum of 6 total credits of EPCS (and/or GEP) may be counted toward the EEE degree as Selective, TE, or Senior Design.

  • EEE Selective: 3 credit sequence required; Project must be EEE related and the courses must be taken in consecutive semesters, be dedicated to the same project, and registration must be at the 200+ level.

  • EEE TE: 1-3 credits allowed; registration for these credits can be at the 100+ level, and do not necessarily have to be EEE focused.

  • Senior Design: students may take 3 credits of EPCS for Senior Design requirements.  See EEE advisor for confirmation of plans.

First Year Engineering

  • Second-semester students in First-Year Engineering (ENGR 131-132) can take EPCS 101 for one credit.

Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies

  • 3 credits of EPCS (200 level and above) can be used to fulfill engineering design requirement

  • 3 credits of EPCS (200 level and above) can be used as an engineering elective

Industrial Engineering

  • All EPICS courses, up to a maximum of three credits can be used towards satisfying technical elective requirements.

  • If EPCS courses are taken to satisfy a foundational learning outcome, then three (3) credits must be taken.

  • If EPCS courses are used to fulfill a General Education requirement, they may not be used to fulfill a Technical Elective requirement in IE.

  • If a student completes 6 credits worth of EPCS, they can use 3 for Gen Eds and 3 for Tech Electives, but no more than that.

Materials Engineering

  • MSE counts EPICS as a "support technical elective" - 2 semesters required to count as a support technical elective.

Mechanical Engineering

  • EPICS 101-202 can be used to satisfy free elective requirements.

  • EPICS 301-402 can be used to satisfy technical elective requirements.

Multidisciplinary Engineering (BSE)

  • EPCS 411 + EPCS 412 can be used to fulfill senior capstone design requirement.

  • 3 credits of EPCS (200 level and above) can be used to fulfill engineering design selective requirement.

  • 3 credits of EPCS (200 level and above) can be used as an engineering elective

Nuclear Engineering

  • The school accepts up to 3 credits of EPCS at the 400 level as Technical Elective credits.

College of Science

  • Students may use EPICS to satisfy the College of Science multidisciplinary requirement. 

  • Any EPICS participation for either 1 or 2 credits may be used to meet the Science Core Teaming and Collaboration requirement.

  • Students may also use 3 credit-hours of EPICS at any level to meet the Multidisciplinary Science requirement.

Computer Sciences

  • EPICS Senior participation for at least 3 credits might be approved as meeting a CS track requirement; see your advisor for the approval process and whether the EPICS Design section is required.

  • Any EPICS participation not being used for other requirements counts as free electives toward graduation.