What is EPICS?
- Hands-on, community-engaged design class with
- First-year through senior students enrolled
- Faculty and graduate student mentors
- Teams operate in a human-centered design context to meet a community-based need or initiative related to faculty or staff expertise, at the local, national, or international level.
- Longer-term (more than one semester or year) interdisciplinary projects and teams
Expectations of EPICS Advisors:
- Provide 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 Brightspace or myPurdue)
- Participate multiple semesters or years
Benefits to EPICS Advisors:
- EPICS provides administrative support and curricular structure for mentoring undergraduate design teams
- Curricular structure includes scheduling, syllabus, professional development opportunities, assessment process, and 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. 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 advising a new EPICS team?
