Important EPICS Pre-Semester Announcements

Welcome Students

Welcome to the EPICS family new students, and welcome back to the returners. We are excited to see the impact you will make in the community through your work this semester.

Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

All students are required to complete five (5) PDHs per credit hour each semester. The requirements are listed in the PDH Menu.

All first time students will need to watch the Introduction to EPICS playlist on YouTube before the first lab.
All first time students should sign up for one session of the Wallet Exercise in MyEPICS

Instructions for Logging Online Lecture Completion:

Watch all videos in the appropriate playlist. It is a good idea to subscribe to the EPICS Youtube channel.
Login to MyEPICS using your Purdue career account.
Click View Activities, select ‘All’ in the ‘Show’ dropdown, and find activity with the naming matching the playlist.
Click ‘Makeup’, fill out the form, and click ‘Submit’

PDH Deduction for No-Shows to Live PDHs

Students who register for a PDH session and fail to attend will be deducted one PDH credit for each missed event. You may deregister up to 24 hours before the event if your schedule changes and you are unable to attend. This change is intended to ensure that students who wish to attend a session are able to do so, rather than have empty seats due to no-shows.

Lab Attendance

EPICS is a team oriented design course. Unexcused absence to lab will result in a steep penalty to your grade.
If you need an excused absence, be sure to let your TA and advisor know in advance.
See https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/teams/team-documents/Grading for details.

Midterm Grades

In accordance with University Senate guidelines, we will be moving midterm grading earlier in the semester. Documentation will be collected week 5 and grades returned week 6. See the milestone schedule for due dates and details.

Priority Project Program – Applications due January 30

The intent of the priority project program is to select a small set of projects (pilot to start with 5 or fewer) from the 100+ ongoing EPICS projects and to provide those project teams with additional expertise and resources to ensure that a timely and quality deliverable is produced. See https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/purdue/priority_project_program for details.

EPICS Website

New students will want to become familiar with the EPICS website, where you will find the syllabus, lab and lecture schedule, assignments (milestones), and more.

See https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS/purdue.

Design Review

All EPICS teams present to outside reviewers two times per semester. For Spring, those will be weeks 7 and 15.
Midterm Review: February 25-28
Final Review: April 21-24

Purchase Request System

Your team will need to purchase materials for use in the construction of your project.
All purchase requests will be initiated and managed through Docusign.
The Docusign form can be accessed through the EPICS website or directly at:

https://na2.docusign.net/Member/PowerFormSigning.aspx?PowerFormId=d3bdbc42-d1d1-4635-b88e-65505d9f9dd8

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

http://www.purdue.edu/epics