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Community Engagement Workshops
EPICS Design Thinking in Community-Engaged Projects Workshop
Summary
To promote global and professional competencies and collaboration between EPICS at Purdue University and its university partners across the globe. EPICS will offer a condensed version of its project-based design course focused on community engagement. Participants will partner with a community organization to design a solution addressing a problem, initiative, or need important to the project partner and the community it serves.
This three-week educational tourism event introduces participants to project-based design activities at Purdue University while they explore West Lafayette, Indiana, and U.S. culture.
Date and Location
May 26 – June 12, 2026
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (USA)
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (EST)
Registration
- Closed
Fee Includes
- Lodging at Purdue University (West Lafayette)
- Three meals per day
- Cultural and educational activities on and off campus
Program Outcomes and Activities
- Learn principles of design thinking and community engagement
- Apply the user-centered design process
- Develop innovative thinking approaches
- Identify stakeholders and community needs
- Benchmark and evaluate preliminary ideas
- Develop budgets and project plans
- Create low-fidelity prototypes and proofs of concept
- Explore detailed design considerations (risk, trade-offs, optimization, safety, empathy)
- Iterate designs based on partner feedback
- Participate in design reviews
- Tour selected Purdue facilities
- Visit industry and business sites
- Explore local amenities and nearby cities
Additional Information
For additional program information, contact epics-university@purdue.edu.
Purdue University is an equal access/equal opportunity university.