How EPICS Credits Count

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

Course Descriptions for the EPICS Courses.

College of Agriculture

NRES (Natural Resources and Environmental Science)

Counts as a capstone experience

College of Engineering

Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

AAE students may use EPICS courses taken at any level (freshman through senior) to fulfill a technical elective. Students wishing to use EPICS as a major/minor elective must get permission from the AAE school. This will be approved for appropriate projects. This cannot be used to satisfy Senior Design requirements in AAE.

Agricultural Engineering

EPICS participation counts as an engineering technical elective or free elective for Agricultural Engineering.

Biomedical Engineering

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

Chemical Engineering

Technical Elective-if all three credits are from EPICS

CEM (Construction and Engineering Management)

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

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.  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 Freshman Engineering can take EPCS 101 for one credit.

Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies (BS)

All concentrations
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, including those the 100- to 200- level, 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)

All concentrations

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 of Nuclear Engineering will accept up to 3 credits of EPCS at the 400 level as Technical Elective credits.

College of Pharmacy

Pharmacy (BSPS students) fulfills Science, Technology and Society (UCC) selective or elective credit.

PharmD students fulfills elective credit.

College of Science

Students may also 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 three-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.  For queries contact: Faith Giordano (fgiordan@purdue.edu )

Polytechnic Institute

Aviation 

Computing and Graphics

 Construction Management

Engineering Technology

Technology Education

Technology Management

Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

Industrial Technology

EPICS can count as a free elective for IT, ID and ITID (Dual) only not Tech Ed.

Mechanical Engineering Technology

EPICS can be used as the Technical Selective and as the beyond the classroom component for MET.

Organizational Leadership Supervision

EPICS can count as a free elective, a technical elective and as the experiential requirement.

Health and Human Sciences

EPICS will meet the specialization requirements for Individual and Family Studies and Youth, Adult, and Family Services, or can be used as an elective for any of the majors including Early Childhood Education, Selling and Sales Management, Retail Management, Financial Planning or Apparel Design and Technology.

Liberal Arts

LA students participating in the EPICS program at Purdue may use three credits of their EPICS Program experience to fulfill the Social Ethics requirement of the CLA Core. The Honors Option is available for students in CLA. 

School of Management

1) Free Elective or as a UC STS.  Some EPICS courses are on the Entrepreneurship Certificate too!

Certificate in Entrepreneurship

EPICS counts toward the Certificate in Entrepreneurship offered through the Burton D. Morgan center for Entrepreneurship. The different EPICS course numbers count as follows:

• The Option requirement can be satisfied with 3 credits of EPCS at the 100, 200, or 300 level. 
• The Capstone requirement can be satisfied with 3 credits of EPCS at the 400 level.