Important EPICS Week 10 Announcements
Spotlight
on:
Risk Analysis
As your team progresses through the design process, it is important to consider the risks of your project. While
industry teams may focus on many types of risk, such as business or operational risks, student teams tend to focus primarily on safety risks in the context of design. One of the most common methods of assessing design risks is the Design Failure Mode and Effects
Analysis (dFMEA). ‘Failure modes’ refers to the ways or modes that the design might fail, where ‘Effects analysis’ is an evaluation of the immediate consequences of those failures. In performing a systematic review of risks, teams should work through each
element of their project and use environment and as a team consider what could go wrong. Each of these failure modes can then be scored on their relative severity, likelihood, and detectability
to obtain a risk score. Teams should then design around the high risk items to reduce their risk to an acceptable level before proceeding with project
delivery.
For more information, reference:
Description:
https://asq.org/quality-resources/fmea
Template:
https://asq.org/-/media/public/learn-about-quality/data-collection-analysis-tools/asq-fmea-template.xls?la=en
Student-Driven Recruiting –
Attention Communication Officers – Due Oct 25
- All teams are expected to generate a ‘help wanted’ poster to recruit for your team.
- This effort should be led by the Communication Officer and Project Manager.
- A template is attached, but it can be altered or replaced to suit your team.
- A PDF of the posters are due to the EPICS office by close of business Oct 25.
- Communications Officers will be asked to post the flyers in the appropriate buildings following approval from the EPICS staff.
Karthick Shankar Honored at Homecoming
We are proud that one of our undergraduate TAs, Karthick Shankar, was awarded the Pillars of Excellency during last week’s Homecoming game. Congrats, Karthick!
Upcoming PDH Guest Lectures
- Monday, Oct 21, 12:30 pm – Community Engagement 101
- Monday, Oct 21, 4:30 pm – Leadership Series, featuring Vice-Provost for Engagement Steve Abel
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:
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
Phone: (765) 494-3559