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New Course EPCS 402Engineering Faculty Document No. 37-04 TO: The Engineering Faculty FROM: The EPICS Curriculum Committee RE: New EPCS Course Numbers The EPICS Curriculum Committee has approved the following new course number. This action is now submitted to the Engineering Faculty with a recommendation for approval. EPCS 402 SENIOR PARTICIPATION IN EPICS Offered Fall and Spring, Summer by special arrangement. Credit 2. Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Course Description: Continuation of EPCS courses (see EPCS 101). Seniors are responsible for the management tasks of planning and organizing their team project activity. They are expected to contribute expertise from their discipline to the design of the team’s projects throughout most of the design process phases of problem identification, specification development, design, production, and deployment. Seniors will also meet with the customer and mentor the freshman, sophomores and juniors. Seniors using EPCS 401/402 to fulfill capstone or design requirements where approved for their major may be required to satisfy additional course requirements specified by their degree program. EPCS 402 is offered for 2 credits. The EPICS procedures manual provides information on expected relative workload for EPCS 401 and EPCS 402 students. May be repeated for credit. May not be taken concurrently with EPCS 401. REASON: The Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) courses are currently offered under 18 different course numbers within 9 different disciplines. The new course numbers aim to reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the course while also easing the registration difficulties of multiple, co-listed course numbers. Each participating department /school would determine how their students’ credits in EPICS count toward graduation requirements. Normally Offered: Each Fall, Spring. Offered Summer by special arrangement. Required Text(s): Service-Learning: Engineering in
Your Community, Marybeth Lima and William Oakes, Recommended Reference(s): None. Course Outcomes: A student who successfully fulfills the course requirements with at least 3 credits of EPICS taken over 2 or more semesters will have demonstrated: i. an ability to apply material from their discipline to the design of community-based projects ii. an understanding of design as a start-to-finish process iii. an ability to identify and acquire new knowledge as a part of the problem-solving/design process iv. an awareness of the customer v. an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams and an appreciation for the contributions from individuals from multiple disciplines vi. an ability to communicate effectively with audiences with widely-varying backgrounds vii. an awareness of professional ethics and responsibility viii. an appreciation of the role that their discipline can play in social contexts Lecture Outline:
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