November 2018 - Epics-india

EPICS INDIA: Deliverables Reminder
by Constantine J Roros 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

Hello INDIA Team, I figured I'd send out an email with all the things that are due for reference. The following are due Saturday 12/8 at midnight: * Individual Evaluation Rubrics (https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/purdue/team-documents/ier) - Complete and email to me like you did at the midterm. * Peer Evaluations (found on myEpics) - Once again evaluate your sub-team and the project manager. Please try to write constructive comments if you can. * Notebook - Make sure you have your Work & Accomplishments and Reflections up to date so we are fully aware of your efforts. Be sure to complete the final reflection (details can be found here: https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/purdue/individual-documents/reflections) * Project Evaluation Rubric (https://sharepoint.ecn.purdue.edu/epics/teams/Public%20Documents/EPICS_Proj…) - Fill out one per team. Also, make sure to complete your design review slides, comments and recommendations for next semester, and course evaluations. You should have gotten an email about the course evaluation, but you can find a link to the website here: https://www.purdue.edu/cie/IDP/CE_Students.html Let me know if you have any questions. Constantine

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EPICS Week 16 Announcements
by Pierce, Andrew L 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

Important EPICS Week 16 Announcements ________________________________ Design Review - This week! * Dress code is business casual or better. * Plan to use the podium PC, not your personal laptop. Preferably bring your presentation on a flash drive. * Do not log in/out of the podium PC with your personal account. * Leave the GoToMeeting session on and do not adjust the screen sharing. * Congratulations on a great semester, and best of luck to all teams at your design review! ________________________________ Delivering This Semester? Generally speaking, it is too late to deliver projects this semester, and you would be wiser to wait to the start of the spring so your team is available if anything goes wrong. If your team does plan to deliver your project this semester, and your advisor approves, please be sure to complete the EPICS delivery checklist. This includes projects that have final deliverables of non-tangible products (project plans, formal recommendations, etc). Find more information on the delivery process at https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/teams/team-documents/project-delivery. Remember, without a checklist, you will not receive an EPICS delivery t-shirt. ________________________________ Study Abroad Opportunity - GAQT in Kenya Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk in the world and responsible for 7 million deaths each year (WHO, 2012). Poor air quality is a serious issue in rapidly growing megacities and inside the homes of nearly 3 billion people that rely on solid fuels (e.g. wood, coal) for cooking and heating. We are an interdisciplinary team of engineers, health scientists, anthropologists, and atmospheric scientists that are working to identify and solve air quality challenges across the globe. We will be working to mitigate indoor air pollution in kitchens of the Nandi community in western Kenya, where women and their children are exposed to highly elevated concentrations of toxic pollutants released by biomass stoves, including carbon monoxide and soot. Two groups of Nandi women have been formed and have developed their own holistic, clean kitchen systems. See https://www.studyabroad.purdue.edu/programs/flyer.cfm?flyer=1314 for details. ________________________________ End of Semester Deliverables * Check the milestone schedule<https://sharepoint.ecn.purdue.edu/epics/teams/Public%20Documents/Milestone_…> for list of deliverables. * Your TA or advisor can give you details on specific due dates. ________________________________ Verify Your Attendance Be sure to check your attendance and PDH credits in MyEPICS. Let your advisor or TA know if you have any missing credits. Insufficient credits can severely impact your grade. ________________________________ Social Media We love seeing your photos and videos of your projects! Please tag us on Facebook and Twitter with your posts to share with us. Follow us on LinkedIn to stay connected so we can be sure you receive invites to come back for events, especially as design reviewers, after graduation. Follow Us: [Image result for twitter logo]<https://twitter.com/EPICSPurdue> [Image result for facebook logo] <https://www.facebook.com/epicspurdue/> [Image result for linkedin logo] <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5109739> ________________________________ Andrew Pierce EPICS Academic Administrator Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering - Room 1209 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Email: pierce1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:pierce1@purdue.edu> Phone: (765) 414-2107 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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FW: may miss connecting in lab
by Oakes, William C. 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

I couldn't type on my first try, here is the email I sent out earlier. I will likely miss lab. Please at least send me summaries. I can answer questions over email and could connect until 10:30 tonight, Thursday. I'm back in the country on Monday. Sorry, actually traveling in India and talking about your projects! -------------------- Prof. William Oakes, PE Email: oakes(a)purdue.edu<mailto:oakes@purdue.edu> Mobile: +1-765-418-8029, From: Oakes, William C. Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 3:32 PM To: Constantine J Roros <croros(a)purdue.edu>; aceman303(a)gmail.com; 'Zaina M El-Demerdash' <zeldemer(a)purdue.edu>; 'epics-india(a)ecn.purdue.ecu' <epics-india(a)ecn.purdue.ecu> Subject: may miss connecting in lab My travel plans here in India got changed and I may be on a plane during lab and won't be able to log in. I am very sorry. I am available for calls on Skype until 10:30 tonight, Thursday. I am back very late Sunday night and will be in all next week. I am happy to meet or connect during the week. For the design reviews, it is important to tell the story of where we are at and how we got here. Zaina or someone will give an overview of what we did to get started and how these are all new projects. Each team should highlight how their partner is - include if they are staff or students and if they are in a class or under professor supervision. Each is different. The path to get to where you are now is as important as where you are at in the process. Talk about the steps you took to get to where you are. Conclusions or results at this point should be preliminary pending feedback from the review. After the review, each team needs to compile the comments and make recommendations for how to start the next semester. This should be uploaded to sharepoint and we will look for it when we do grading. That means meeting after lab before you all leave, in person or virtually. Your design documents and the design review slides will be looked at and shared with many institutions. Water and education projects are coming up as opportunities at multiple colleges here during my visits and other colleges are interested so make the high quality. Let me know when you are going to practice. I am in town all week and have openings. Evenings on Monday there is a TA dinner and on Wednesday I have Orbital and EWB 5:30-8 pm. If I can make the practice I would like to but if you need to meet a time when I can't, let me see the slides and I can comment. You have done a great job this semester and please finish well so we can reward you with the proper grades! Prof. Oakes -------------------- William Oakes, PE 150th Anniversary Professor Director, EPICS Program Prof., Engineering Education EPICS Program Armstrong Hall of Engineering 701 W. Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Email: oakes(a)purdue.edu<mailto:oakes@purdue.edu> Mobile: +1-765-418-8029, office: +1-765-494-3892, Fax: +1-765-494-0052

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EPICS Design Documents – Due on the day of your lab this week!
by Pierce, Andrew L 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

EPICS Design Documents – Instructions for Upload • A PDF of the design documents should be submitted by the end of day that your lab is held to give our design reviewers time to read them. • You can continue to update and overwrite the document throughout the semester. • Upload instructions: o The PDF should be uploaded to https://sharepoint.ecn.purdue.edu/epics/designreview/default.aspx. o Find the day of the week for your team, and then your team’s folder. Best, Andrew Andrew Pierce EPICS Academic Administrator Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering – Room 1209 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Email: pierce1(a)purdue.edu<mailto:pierce1@purdue.edu> Phone: (765) 414-2107 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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Carpet cleaning in Armstrong and EPICS rooms
by Martinez, Jorge L 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Dear EPICS students, My apologies for the short notice and service interruption. During the next few days, we will interrupt access to some of the labs to allow custodial and maintenance personnel to complete carpet cleaning. The schedule is as follows: * Tonight (11/8/18 from 5:30pm through 8:00am) - Computer Lab (ARMS 1095) and Meeting Room (ARMS 1101) * Tuesday (11/13/18 from 5:30pm through 8:30am) - Meeting rooms ARMS 1098 B and C Please plan to use other areas for meetings and work. Thanks, Jorge Martinez EPICS Lab Manager Purdue University | Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering - Room 1210 701 West Stadium Ave West Lafayette, IN 47907 +1 765 494 0629 | +1 574 214 9450 (mobile) mart1419(a)purdue.edu<mailto:mart1419@purdue.edu> | https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS

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Professor Oakes loving in
by William Oakes 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

I may be late logging into class by a little Indian traffic has me delayed but I will be logging in Prof Oakes

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