September 2018 - Epics-india

EPICS India: Design Review Week
by Zaina Mae El-Demerdash 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Hey team! This is the week...design review week. We're going to kill it! There's a lot of important information, so please read this entire email carefully. Please get to lab by 8:00am this Friday to set up and prepare. If you have a conflict and can't be there early, let me know. Mock presentations BITS: Tuesday (10/2) at 8:00pm in ARMS1098C RuTAG: Wednesday (10/3) at 6:00pm in ARMS3115 IITTP: Wednesday (10/3) at 7:30pm in ARMS1098B Presentations Please use this<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ePYQSLGcUSDsAlhcePRbURciFDb3bQk0gHF…> common presentation and add your slides. Try to keep the same theme for continuity sake! I also made a bunch of template slides that you can use to structure your presentation. They're just a suggestion - do whatever makes sense for your project. If you do use the template slides, just copy/paste them under your team's section. Presenting order Fill this out <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jmXJgZhUbZ5_N3iURbljt5jx3kYNPNyiT_v…> (FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE) to pick the order you want to present (write your team name down next to first, second, or last. Grants ($$$) If your team is applying for a grant, fill out the application<https://slg.engagement.purdue.edu/> BY OCTOBER 5th (Friday). Let me or Constantine know if you have any questions. PIGs: No PIGs this week I know this is a crazy week and everyone's busy with exams, but let's kill this design review and then enjoy Fall break! Best, Zaina El-Demerdash Purdue University | School of Industrial Engineering Purdue Society of Women Engineers | Outreach Committee Chair

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EPICS Week 7 Announcements
by Pierce, Andrew L 28 Sep '18

28 Sep '18

Important EPICS Week 7 Announcements Good Luck at Design Reviews! ________________________________ Design Documents - All should be turned in by the end of the day today. If you haven't submitted, do so ASAP. * 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 . ________________________________ Design Reviews - Oct 2nd - 5th * 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. * Teams are responsible for inviting their community partners and any guest reviewers from on-campus (faculty, etc.). o Be sure to let the EPICS office know which guests are coming so we can get them parking passes ________________________________ Student Service Learning Grants - Due October 5th All EPICS projects with non-Purdue partners should apply: Purdue's Office of Engagement provides grants to students or student organizations for work on community service learning projects. This program's goal is to expand the community involvement of Purdue students in partnership with communities, nonprofit agencies, schools, and governmental bodies. Both the application and guidelines for the Student Grant Program for Community Service/Service Learning Projects can be found online: https://slg.engagement.purdue.edu ________________________________ SolidWorks Student Setup SolidWorks is available for installation on your personal laptops for all Purdue students. See the attached flier for details. ________________________________ 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) 494-3559 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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Service Learning Grant Website
by Constantine J Roros 28 Sep '18

28 Sep '18

Here's the link https://slg.engagement.purdue.edu You can read the guidelines for the grant and also apply on this website. Constantine

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EPICS India: Week 6
by Zaina Mae El-Demerdash 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Hey everyone - Design review is in 2 weeks so this week is all about making progress with our projects!! We'll talk more about design review and mock presentations during lab this week, but in preparation, here's a reminder of this week's assignments. Gantt Charts As discussed, gantt charts layout your project timeline. For now, focus on including what you think your next steps will be. Design Document The design document is basically where you formally document your project progress and status. The reason they're due this week is so that design reviewers get a chance to read over them and get a sense of what we're doing before coming to design review. I attached the design doc template to this email and put a copy in the drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1YOKKXR65QbWK_QbGM2zjREHart3WsQ4M> along with some samples from last year. I'll let you know later this week where exactly they need to be uploaded in order for the design reviewers to see them, but for now, upload it to our Sharepoint<https://purdue0.sharepoint.com/sites/epics/india/Shared%20Documents/Forms/A…>. Design Review Invitations In order to get valuable feedback from design review, we need to invite people who we think could help us out. This could be your project partners (they can be remote reviewers and call in to the system), faculty doing related work, even other EPICS teams with similar projects. The goal is for each team to send out at least 2 - include a description of EPICS India and what design review is, the date/time (Oct. 5, 8:30am-10:20am) and location (ARMS 1101). If they say they can come, forward the email to Constantine so they can get all the official information and instructions. If they can't come — don't worry! We'll get a bunch of random reviewers assigned to us. Mock Design Reviews We're going to do mock design reviews next week, so try to start on your slides if you get a chance (there's a sample from last year in the drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1I5dGruf41VvR3B7jHHiZM5g1uKTkhozL>). We'll do the same thing where I create a presentation and everyone adds their slides to it. Mock presentations will be October 1 - 3. As always, don't forget to do PIGs (it's in the drive, make sure you edit the week 6 one!) and let me know if you have any questions! Best, Zaina El-Demerdash Purdue University | School of Industrial Engineering Purdue Society of Women Engineers | Outreach Committee Chair

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EPICS Week 6 Announcements
by Pierce, Andrew L 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

Important EPICS Week 6 Announcements ________________________________ Design Documents - Due on the day of your lab this week! * 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 . ________________________________ Design Reviews - Oct 2nd - 5th * 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. * Teams are responsible for inviting their community partners and any guest reviewers from on-campus (faculty, etc.). o Be sure to let the EPICS office know which guests are coming so we can get them parking passes ________________________________ Student Service Learning Grants - Due October 5th All EPICS projects with non-Purdue partners should apply: Purdue's Office of Engagement provides grants to students or student organizations for work on community service learning projects. This program's goal is to expand the community involvement of Purdue students in partnership with communities, nonprofit agencies, schools, and governmental bodies. Both the application and guidelines for the Student Grant Program for Community Service/Service Learning Projects can be found online: https://slg.engagement.purdue.edu ________________________________ 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) 494-3559 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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EPICS INDIA - Card Access Issues
by Constantine J Roros 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

Hello INDIA Team, I talked with Jorge Martinez today about the after-hours lab access issues a few of you had. If you were able to swipe into the computer lab successfully, you should be able to access the main EPICS lab in 1098. He said the card reader for 1098 can be finicky and won't accept the card unless it is pushed all the way in and is slid straight across the reader (i.e. you are not sliding the card crookedly at an angle). So if it won't accept your card the first time, try it a few more times and make sure you slide it straight through parallel to the reader. I know it took a few tries for it to accept my own card. If your card has an RFID chip, you can avoid this issue by just putting it against the reader to gain access. If you still are having issues, see Jorge (his office is in the main EPICS office) or contact me. Thanks, Constantine

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EPICS India: Week 4
by Zaina Mae El-Demerdash 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

Hello everyone! Now that we have teams and project partners, we can start finding and working on projects. Some notes for this week (I know it's a lot, but please read through everything!)... Team Google drive folder I made a folder<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YOKKXR65QbWK_QbGM2zjREHart3WsQ4M?us…> to keep everything in one place until we transfer it over to Sharepoint. In here, you'll find the presentations we've been doing these past few weeks, PIGs, and folders for each team. Your team doesn't have to use it, but it's there if you want! PIGs >From now on, we will be doing PIGs (progress, issues, goals) every week. Each week, I'll create a new presentation for everyone to add their slides to and put it in the Google drive. It's the design lead's responsibility to make sure their team does PIGs every week. Design Leads / Project Partner Liaisons Each team needs to nominate someone to be their design lead and project partner liaison (it can be the same person). Here's a description of each role from the EPICS website... Design lead: Role that oversees the project design and responsible for facilitating the project through all aspects of the design process. Project partner liaison: Team member selected to be the main point of contact between the team and the project partner. Make sure you fill out the survey in the google drive BY Thursday, September 20th at 11:59pm. Pictures Since we finally have teams, we will be taking pictures of all of your lovely faces next week during lab. Just giving you a heads up (the pictures will most probably end up on the website)! Notebook checks Notebook checks are this week so make sure to get everything in and updated in your notebook by TONIGHT. Things to keep updated: weekly reflections, work and accomplishments (eg. pictures of prototypes, meeting notes, research, etc.) Team meetings / communication Let me know when your team plans on meeting this week. I'll try to stop in and make sure everyone's on the right track and so we can make progress! I suggest making a GroupMe (or apparently snapchat group I guess???) so that everyone in your group is on the same page. I think that's it from me — have a great weekend! Best, Zaina El-Demerdash Purdue University | School of Industrial Engineering Purdue Society of Women Engineers | Outreach Committee Chair

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Reminder: Notebook reviews
by Constantine J Roros 13 Sep '18

13 Sep '18

Hello INDIA Team, I just wanted to let you know that I am starting to look over your notebooks and will give you feedback next week. This is not for a grade, its just to see that you are on the right track for your notebooks. If there's anything you want to put in your notebooks for the review (for feedback's sake), try to put it in by the end of the day tomorrow. Constantine

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Meeting with TA today at 3:30PM in ARMS 1130
by Constantine J Roros 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Hello, If you have any questions or issues you would like to talk about, I will be in ARMS 1130 at 3:30PM. Constantine

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EPICS Week 4 Announcements
by Pierce, Andrew L 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

Important EPICS Week 4 Announcements ________________________________ Week Four - Items Due to your TA * Notebooks * Budget * Remember, your team has $200 UNTIL you submit a budget to request more. * If you plan to spend more than $200 this semester, you must submit a budget * The Service Learning Grants greatly help us cover your project expenses. Please consider applying. * Project Plan/Gantt Chart * Website Update ________________________________ Student Service Learning Grants - Due October 5th All EPICS projects with non-Purdue partners should apply: Purdue's Office of Engagement provides grants to students or student organizations for work on community service learning projects. This program's goal is to expand the community involvement of Purdue students in partnership with communities, nonprofit agencies, schools, and governmental bodies. Both the application and guidelines for the Student Grant Program for Community Service/Service Learning Projects can be found online: https://slg.engagement.purdue.edu ________________________________ Autodesk Fusion Troubleshooting Many students are having trouble downloading Autodesk Fusion and getting registered for the three year educational licenses. Autodesk is aware of the issue and can correct it, but each individual has to submit a support ticket at http://www.autodesk.com/education/support/edu-contact-us-form<https://u7507473.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=RbkzQKafiJQzG1tVGvRlz5E5oU80A…> ________________________________ Hewlett Packard Enterprise -September 10th Representatives from HPE will be on campus Monday, September 10th at 3:30 PM recruiting students from Purdue. See attached flyer for details. ________________________________ 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) 494-3559 http://www.purdue.edu/epics

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