Important EPICS Week 11 Announcements
Caterpillar Office Hours –
March 22nd
Three local Cat employees will be hosting “office hours” for open career mentoring and coaching. See attached flier for details.
Registering for EPICS for Fall 2017
Returning students are the core of every successful EPICS team. A new
video tutorial is available to help you register for the correct division using Scheduling Assistant. Check the
schedule, there are a number of team and time changes for Fall 17.
New teams:
I2R: Partnered with Women in Engineering to provide education and outreach for middle school students to introduce them to engineering.
BRONZE: Working with the Cities of West Lafayette and Lafayette to develop new processes to make historical markers in bronze.
BME: Working with the School of Biomedical Engineering on various projects, such as ultra sound monitoring for Rhinos, prosthetic devices and museum exhibits.
CAMP: Making the summer camp experience better for everyone by designing resources and activities.
LAKOTA: Purdue and the South Dakota School of Mines team up to work with the Technology and Oglala Lakota College on Pine Ridge in South Dakota. They will be focusing on food growth, housing and
energy.
Merging Teams:
GLEE into IS
VOSS into AAEE
LSME into I2R
WISE into DISC
ELAT into DRC
EPICS Awards Open-House and End of Year Celebration –
April 17th
Khan Academy: 1000 Videos for the Deaf Kickoff – Inspire to Innovate –
April 2nd
MSTEM500 –
May 15-16
Join the EVEI team for the MSTEM 500,
M-STEM3 — Motorsports STEM for Manufacturing and Medicine — is an education initiative designed to engage students in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math). See attached flier or
mstem3.org for details.
Semester in Silicon Valley with Arizona State and Draper Universities
Arizona State, one of our partner EPICS universities, is launching a new program for students passionate about entrepreneurship. See attached flier for details.
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) 414-2107