Important EPICS Week 15 Announcements ________________________________ EPICS First-Annual Awards Open House - THIS MONDAY - Armstrong Building - Kurz Atrium A few notes on the open house: * Please join us for this fun event to celebrate your success - there will be cookies. * Please cheer LOUDLY for your teammates and friends. * All are welcome - invite your friends and parents if you wish. * Dress for the event is business-casual, keeping in line with the weeks design reviews. [cid:image003.png@01D2B544.2FEFBD50] ________________________________ Design Reviews - Next Week * Design documents should have been uploaded this week - please do so ASAP if you haven't already. * Design reviews should cover the history of your design, but focus on the work you have done this semester. * Every team member should have presented at least one of the two reviews. * All teams should invite at least two (2) on-campus reviewers (faculty from other classes, etc.) to your review. * Design review dress code is business casual. ________________________________ Team Ecuador Needs Your Vote! Team Ecuador recently applied for a $50,000- $100,000 grant called "A Community Thrives" by USA Today. One of the important steps to qualify for final consideration is getting in the top 10 most votes in your category and I wanted to ask if you guys as a department could share the voting link on your social media platforms to help a Purdue Epics team win! http://act.usatoday.com/submit-an-idea/#/gallery/search/Purdue ________________________________ WECE Leadership Lecture - April 27 Lila Ibrahim is a 2010 Purdue Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumna and the 2017 Purdue Women of ECE Honored Alumna. She is the COO of Coursera, an educational technology company with over 24 million users. See attached flier for details on her on-campus lecture. ________________________________ Greater Lafayette Mini Maker Faire - postponed until October 14th. ________________________________ Andrew Pierce EPICS Academic Administrator Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering - Room 1209 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Email: pierce1@purdue.edu<mailto:pierce1@purdue.edu> Phone: (765) 414-2107 http://www.purdue.edu/epics