University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-05-09T18:20:10Z

Brianacantos:

Hello! My name is Briana Cantos and i'm a Junior Electrical Engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology. I love mentoring and helping my peers become better engineers. I'm always looking forward to collaborate with other innovators and can be contacted at bcantos2014@my.fit.edu.

[[File:Briana-Cantos.JPG|thumb]]

Just like many other fellows, I wondered what I would get out of joining UIF. I had a friend who had previously gone through the UIF training and would always tell me how awesome UIF was and to consider applying to be a candidate. During that time, I had a full schedule trying to survive my school work and leading the IEEE student branch. My passion is to create opportunities for students to practice their technical engineering skills and networking events where employers can personally meet students.

I never considered myself a social butterfly, but by getting involved in leadership positions in different organizations like SWE and Tau Beta Pi I learned that I loved to network. By having the honor to lead the planning committee for the 2016 Engineers Week I was able to personally see how amazing it is to work on a big interdisciplinary team. The creation of the Innovation Council holds a special place in my heart because I was able to finally bring this club to life thanks to UIF and my amazing leadership circle. The purpose of the Innovation Council is to allow representatives from multiple organizations on campus to come together and personally get to know each other and have a safe place to share ideas and work on bigger projects together. One common goal, that all passionate leaders have it to help others. So instead of working alone to accomplish the same goal with the Innovation Council we can work together for a better TODAY. 

I’m thankful for becoming a UIF fellow, since I was introduced to a network of change agents and friends that share the same passion to make a difference in higher education.

= Related Links =

Florida Institute of Technology

[[Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities]]

Fall 2015 Leadership Circle

[[Chris Ballentine|Chris_Ballentine]]

[[Gerid Paquette|Gerid_Paquette]]

[[Chris Woodle|Chris_Woodle]]

Spring 2016 Leadership Circle

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Briana_Cantos Briana Cantos]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Thomas_Haynie Thomas Haynie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexander_Rumsey Alexander Rumsey]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicole_Telega Nicole Telega]

[[Quintcey Parrish|Quintcey_Parrish]] 
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Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-05-09T17:38:31Z

Brianacantos:

Briana Cantos is a sophomore Electrical Engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology. She loves mentoring and helping her peers become better engineers as the Chair of the Florida Tech IEEE student branch. Briana is eager to collaborate with other innovators and can be contacted at bcantos2014@my.fit.edu.

[[File:Briana-Cantos.JPG|thumb]]

At  the end of Spring 2015 semester Briana was elected the Chair of the IEEE student branch and has worked hard this year planning events like the Region 3 IEEE Leadership Workshop, networking with members of the IEEE Melbourne Section and leading the technical team for the 2016 SECON hardware competition. For the Fall 2015 semester she planned a total of ten general meetings and has planned another ten general meeting for the Spring 2016 semester. Briana has been a part of the Society of Women Engineers executive board as the webmaster for the past two years. On April 19, 2015, she was initiated into the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society at Florida Tech and has volunteered as member of the programming committee to help prepare events like chapter meetings and the Engineers Week opening ceremony. In addition, she volunteers to be the leader of the planning committee for the 2016 Engineers Week hosted at Florida Tech from February 22, 2016 to February 27, 2016.

= Related Links =

Florida Institute of Technology

[[Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities]]

Fall 2015 Leadership Circle

[[Chris Ballentine|Chris_Ballentine]]

[[Gerid Paquette|Gerid_Paquette]]

[[Chris Woodle|Chris_Woodle]]

Spring 2016 Leadership Circle

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Briana_Cantos Briana Cantos]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Thomas_Haynie Thomas Haynie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexander_Rumsey Alexander Rumsey]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicole_Telega Nicole Telega]

[[Quintcey Parrish|Quintcey_Parrish]] 
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[[Category:Student Contributors|b]]

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-05-09T17:37:38Z

Brianacantos:

Briana Cantos is a sophomore Electrical Engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology. She loves mentoring and helping her peers become better engineers as the Chair of the Florida Tech IEEE student branch. Briana is eager to collaborate with other innovators and can be contacted at bcantos2014@my.fit.edu.

[[File:Briana-Cantos.JPG|thumb]]

At  the end of Spring 2015 semester Briana was elected the Chair of the IEEE student branch and has worked hard this year planning events like the Region 3 IEEE Leadership Workshop, networking with members of the IEEE Melbourne Section and leading the technical team for the 2016 SECON hardware competition. For the Fall 2015 semester she planned a total of ten general meetings and has planned another ten general meeting for the Spring 2016 semester. Briana has been a part of the Society of Women Engineers executive board as the webmaster for the past two years. On April 19, 2015, she was initiated into the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society at Florida Tech and has volunteered as member of the programming committee to help prepare events like chapter meetings and the Engineers Week opening ceremony. In addition, she volunteers to be the leader of the planning committee for the 2016 Engineers Week hosted at Florida Tech from February 22, 2016 to February 27, 2016.

= Related Links =

Florida Institute of Technology

[[Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities]]

Fall 2015 Leadership Circle

[[Chris Ballentine|Chris_Ballentine]]

[[Gerid Paquette|Gerid_Paquette]]

[[Chris Woodle|Chris_Woodle]]

Spring 2016 Leadership Circle

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Briana_Cantos Briana Cantos]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Thomas_Haynie Thomas Haynie]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alexander_Rumsey Alexander Rumsey]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicole_Telega Nicole Telega]

[[Quintcey Parrish|Quintcey_Parrish]] 
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[[Category:Student Contributors|b]]

Priorities:Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2016-02-12T05:07:38Z

Brianacantos:

= Project Pitch Video =

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=GFNgamSK4Bg}}

= Overview =

Florida Tech has also recently been names as one of the '''''Top 50 Entrepreneurial Universities by Forbes''''', which is a testament to the purpose efforts undertaken in recent years to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. As a private institution, Florida Tech has a history of high-quality undergraduate engineering education. However, Florida Tech has yet to realize its entrepreneurial potential due to a lack of formal training and education in entrepreneurship of faculty, the administration, and students. Largely, only a few faculty initially spearheaded the entrepreneurial endeavors, but as with many culture-changing endeavors, the current champions seek to create a critical mass of followers, adopters, and co-implementers.

= Strategy # 1: Increase interdisciplinary collabration for student capstone projects =

== Tactic # 1: Create a pilot capstone design program incorporating college of engineering and college of business students ==

Currently, students spend an entire year at FIT developing an almost industry-ready designs. Many times, these designs go on display at the university, but unfortunately, do not go much further than this. We are trying to incorporate business students into these projects to create successful businesses out of these projects that students work long hours developing.

== Tactic # 2: Amalgamize all individual departmental capstone courses into one overarching, univesity-wide capstone course ==

Senior Design is currently run by each individual major. Multidisciplinary projects exist far and few between, which is a disservice to the students as well as the university. We wish to eradicate the current major-specific senior design program and make cross-major projects more commonplace, if not required. This gives a more in-depth experience of a real industry project.

== Tactic # 3: Get industry members to advise and sponsor the univeristy-wide capstone projects ==

We wish to see more industry-sponsored projects as capstone projects as well. We have had many successful projects sponsored by companies like Northrop Grumman, Harris Corporation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and more. This interaction not only helps students feel the real experience of being an engineer in these companies, but they often are offered jobs as a result. Additionally, with the funding provided by the sponsor, these projects are of minimal cost to the university, enabling other unsponsored projects to receive more funding.

= Strategy # 2: Create awareness about existing facilities for Innovation and Entreprenuership =

== Tactic # 1: Hold an innovative desgin challenge with emphasis on using indicated facilities ==

We wish to hold a student design event, where we will gather in a highly traveled campus location to have the maximum amount of participation (i.e. Dining Hall, Gym, Senior Design Center). We will hold a competition to engage students to utilize as many of our campus resources as possible (i.e. Machine Shop, Electronic Support Lab, Fab Lan, Innovation Center, Library, etc.).

== Tactic # 2: Conduct a rapid design comptetion using articles acquired from a scavenger hunt ==

The competition will be such that all students have the ability to participate in as well as staff and faculty to create a campus wide day of fun. It will be challenging and thought-provoking, but no major will have an advantage. This is good to reach out to the community as well as the students and their professors. 

== Tactic # 3: Hold an Innovation and Entreprenuership Fair ==

We wish to hold an event to showcase all of the innovation that students have been involved with. Some students may have been a part of a big project during an internship or maybe some students invented something in their dorm. If it is innovative, we want to see it! This is a great event to hold to encourage collaboration on projects going forward. If you have a good design, but you do not have the skills to code a stellar User Interface, you may attract a fellow student to help you out at such an event and more. 

= '''Strategy # 3: Start a Student Council''' =

'''Tactic # 1: Hold the first student council meeting'''

'''Description:''' Florida Tech has many great organizations like Tau Beta Pi and Society of Women Engineers that get students involved in projects related to their major and creates networking opportunities. However, it’s difficult to plan collaborative events with other organizations. The objective of the student council is to oversee and plan collaborative events between the engineering and business clubs and societies at Florida Tech. For example, SC would be in charge of planning E-week where we can have guest speakers, competitions and seniors and organizations can showcase their projects. Overall, we want to show others how our students at Florida Tech can apply their knowledge learned in class solve real world problems.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Each organization president will introduce themselves.

·         Dr. Schlegel will explain KEEN’s role in the foundation of the Student Council

·         Team building competition

·         Present why each president should join the student council.

·         Announce next group meeting. (Meetings will be twice a month).

Check out our website for Engineers Week: [http://engineersweekfit.com/ engineersweekfit.com]

'''Tactic # 2: Host Florida Tech Engineering Week 2016'''

'''Description''': Engineering Week 2016 will be from February 22, 2016 to February 27, 2016. Multiple engineering organizations at Florida Tech are working together to have fun filled week to show how great engineering has changed the world we live in.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Got 20 engineering organizations to sponsor events during the week

·         Found speakers for the opening and closing ceremony

·         Host two tours with local engineering companies

·         Showcase the new KEEN weekly innovation challenge

·         Bridge the barrier between different major

·         First successful event planned by multiple organizations

·         Formed new friendships while planning an event that hasn’t been held at Florida Tech since 1999

·         Gained visibility with student and faculty stakeholders

'''Tactic # 3: Group Industry Projects'''

'''Description:''' Florida Tech is blessed to be located in the heart of the space coast region. However, not many events are held with local companies since there are no solid partnerships with the student organizations. In my experience, it has been difficult to get my voice heard by large local companies as a student. However, with the combined voice of the student council we can make a stronger impact when reaching out to local companies.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Met Mrs. Sauerman,  Corporate Sponsored Program Research Vice President at Florida Tech

·         Schedule a meeting

·         Mentorship between organizations

·         Together we are stronger

'''Tactic # 4: Channel of communcation'''

'''Description:''' I’ve learned that communication is a vital skill that can sometimes be overlooked while trying to pass your differential equations class or finish your 20 page lab report. But communication is key for all professional careers. Our goal is to meet face to face with all the presidents of the engineering council and make connection to make communication more efficient. Together the organizations at Florida Tech can accomplish so much more than trying to survive on their own.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Avoid schedule conflicts between organizations

·         Network of communication allows smaller clubs to gain more exposure

·         Mentorship between organizations

·         Together we are stronger

'''Tactic # 5: Form a board of advisors'''

'''Description:''' The sustainability of the student council depends on faculty that will be able to moderate the transition between past and new members. Therefore, our mission for this semester is to find faculty in at Florida Tech that would serve as a board of advisor to ensure that the student council survives for future years to come.

'''Milestones:'''

·         KEEN has offered to help launch the student council and provide future support

'''Tactic # 6: Launch as a separate organization'''

'''Description:''' The ultimate goal is for the student council to be a separate organization. To start the program, the student council will be launched under the umbrella of KEEN and EMPwr. Therefore, the pressure of starting an organization will not be put on a group of students. With the professional support and funding provided by KEEN, the student council will have a stronger foundation.  

'''Milestones:'''

·         Assign a delegate from each organization

·         Increase communication between organizations

·         Share common interests

·         Break the barriers between student in different majors

·         Share the I&E mindset with more students

= Strategy # 4: Running the student organization EMpwr =

'''Tactic # 1: Bring together the leaders of all organization on campus'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''

'''Tactic # 2: Find students of all majors'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''''' '''

'''Tactic # 3: Host regular meeting'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''

'''Tactic # 4: Organize an E-board'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''

'''Tactic # 5: '''''' ''''''Co-host events that raise awareness about innovation and entrepreneurial mindsets on & off campus'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: ''' '

''Tactic ''''''# 6: Create Sustenance for other groups'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Florida_Institute_of_Technology '''Florida Institute of Technology''']

Fall 2015 Leadership Circle

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Ballentine Chris_Ballentine]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gerid_Paquette Gerid_Paquette]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Woodle Chris_Woodle]

Spring 2016 Leadership Circle

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Briana_Cantos Briana Cantos]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Thomas_Haynie Thomas Haynie]

[[Category:Student Priorities|f]]

Priorities:Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2016-02-12T05:06:58Z

Brianacantos:

= Project Pitch Video =

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=GFNgamSK4Bg}}

= Overview =

Florida Tech has also recently been names as one of the '''''Top 50 Entrepreneurial Universities by Forbes''''', which is a testament to the purpose efforts undertaken in recent years to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. As a private institution, Florida Tech has a history of high-quality undergraduate engineering education. However, Florida Tech has yet to realize its entrepreneurial potential due to a lack of formal training and education in entrepreneurship of faculty, the administration, and students. Largely, only a few faculty initially spearheaded the entrepreneurial endeavors, but as with many culture-changing endeavors, the current champions seek to create a critical mass of followers, adopters, and co-implementers.

= Strategy # 1: Increase interdisciplinary collabration for student capstone projects =

== Tactic # 1: Create a pilot capstone design program incorporating college of engineering and college of business students ==

Currently, students spend an entire year at FIT developing an almost industry-ready designs. Many times, these designs go on display at the university, but unfortunately, do not go much further than this. We are trying to incorporate business students into these projects to create successful businesses out of these projects that students work long hours developing.

== Tactic # 2: Amalgamize all individual departmental capstone courses into one overarching, univesity-wide capstone course ==

Senior Design is currently run by each individual major. Multidisciplinary projects exist far and few between, which is a disservice to the students as well as the university. We wish to eradicate the current major-specific senior design program and make cross-major projects more commonplace, if not required. This gives a more in-depth experience of a real industry project.

== Tactic # 3: Get industry members to advise and sponsor the univeristy-wide capstone projects ==

We wish to see more industry-sponsored projects as capstone projects as well. We have had many successful projects sponsored by companies like Northrop Grumman, Harris Corporation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and more. This interaction not only helps students feel the real experience of being an engineer in these companies, but they often are offered jobs as a result. Additionally, with the funding provided by the sponsor, these projects are of minimal cost to the university, enabling other unsponsored projects to receive more funding.

= Strategy # 2: Create awareness about existing facilities for Innovation and Entreprenuership =

== Tactic # 1: Hold an innovative desgin challenge with emphasis on using indicated facilities ==

We wish to hold a student design event, where we will gather in a highly traveled campus location to have the maximum amount of participation (i.e. Dining Hall, Gym, Senior Design Center). We will hold a competition to engage students to utilize as many of our campus resources as possible (i.e. Machine Shop, Electronic Support Lab, Fab Lan, Innovation Center, Library, etc.).

== Tactic # 2: Conduct a rapid design comptetion using articles acquired from a scavenger hunt ==

The competition will be such that all students have the ability to participate in as well as staff and faculty to create a campus wide day of fun. It will be challenging and thought-provoking, but no major will have an advantage. This is good to reach out to the community as well as the students and their professors. 

== Tactic # 3: Hold an Innovation and Entreprenuership Fair ==

We wish to hold an event to showcase all of the innovation that students have been involved with. Some students may have been a part of a big project during an internship or maybe some students invented something in their dorm. If it is innovative, we want to see it! This is a great event to hold to encourage collaboration on projects going forward. If you have a good design, but you do not have the skills to code a stellar User Interface, you may attract a fellow student to help you out at such an event and more. 

= '''Strategy # 3: Start a Student Council''' =

'''Tactic # 1: Hold the first student council meeting'''

'''Description:''' Florida Tech has many great organizations like Tau Beta Pi and Society of Women Engineers that get students involved in projects related to their major and creates networking opportunities. However, it’s difficult to plan collaborative events with other organizations. The objective of the student council is to oversee and plan collaborative events between the engineering and business clubs and societies at Florida Tech. For example, SC would be in charge of planning E-week where we can have guest speakers, competitions and seniors and organizations can showcase their projects. Overall, we want to show others how our students at Florida Tech can apply their knowledge learned in class solve real world problems.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Each organization president will introduce themselves.

·         Dr. Schlegel will explain KEEN’s role in the foundation of the Student Council

·         Team building competition

·         Present why each president should join the student council.

·         Announce next group meeting. (Meetings will be twice a month).

Check out our website for Engineers Week: [http://engineersweekfit.com/ engineersweekfit.com]

'''Tactic # 2: Host Florida Tech Engineering Week 2016'''

'''Description''': Engineering Week 2016 will be from February 22, 2016 to February 27, 2016. Multiple engineering organizations at Florida Tech are working together to have fun filled week to show how great engineering has changed the world we live in.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Got 20 engineering organizations to sponsor events during the week

·         Found speakers for the opening and closing ceremony

·         Host two tours with local engineering companies

·         Showcase the new KEEN weekly innovation challenge

·         Bridge the barrier between different major

·         First successful event planned by multiple organizations

·         Formed new friendships while planning an event that hasn’t been held at Florida Tech since 1999

·         Gained visibility with student and faculty stakeholders

'''Tactic # 3: Group Industry Projects'''

'''Description:''' Florida Tech is blessed to be located in the heart of the space coast region. However, not many events are held with local companies since there are no solid partnerships with the student organizations. In my experience, it has been difficult to get my voice heard by large local companies as a student. However, with the combined voice of the student council we can make a stronger impact when reaching out to local companies.

'''Milestones'''

·         Met Mrs. Sauerman,  Corporate Sponsored Program Research Vice President at Florida Tech

·         Schedule a meeting

·         Mentorship between organizations

·         Together we are stronger

'''Tactic # 4: Channel of communcation'''

'''Description:''' I’ve learned that communication is a vital skill that can sometimes be overlooked while trying to pass your differential equations class or finish your 20 page lab report. But communication is key for all professional careers. Our goal is to meet face to face with all the presidents of the engineering council and make connection to make communication more efficient. Together the organizations at Florida Tech can accomplish so much more than trying to survive on their own.

'''Milestones'''

·         Avoid schedule conflicts between organizations

·         Network of communication allows smaller clubs to gain more exposure

·         Mentorship between organizations

·         Together we are stronger

'''Tactic # 5: Form a board of advisors'''

'''Description:''' The sustainability of the student council depends on faculty that will be able to moderate the transition between past and new members. Therefore, our mission for this semester is to find faculty in at Florida Tech that would serve as a board of advisor to ensure that the student council survives for future years to come.

'''Milestones'''

·         KEEN has offered to help launch the student council and provide future support

'''Tactic # 6: Launch as a separate organization'''

'''Description:''' The ultimate goal is for the student council to be a separate organization. To start the program, the student council will be launched under the umbrella of KEEN and EMPwr. Therefore, the pressure of starting an organization will not be put on a group of students. With the professional support and funding provided by KEEN, the student council will have a stronger foundation.  

'''Milestones'''

·         Assign a delegate from each organization

·         Increase communication between organizations

·         Share common interests

·         Break the barriers between student in different majors

·         Share the I&E mindset with more students

= Strategy # 4: Running the student organization EMpwr =

'''Tactic # 1: Bring together the leaders of all organization on campus'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''

'''Tactic # 2: Find students of all majors'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''''' '''

'''Tactic # 3: Host regular meeting'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''

'''Tactic # 4: Organize an E-board'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''

'''Tactic # 5: '''''' ''''''Co-host events that raise awareness about innovation and entrepreneurial mindsets on & off campus'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: ''' '

''Tactic ''''''# 6: Create Sustenance for other groups'''

'''Definition:'''

'''Milestone: '''

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Florida_Institute_of_Technology '''Florida Institute of Technology''']

Fall 2015 Leadership Circle

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Ballentine Chris_Ballentine]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gerid_Paquette Gerid_Paquette]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Chris_Woodle Chris_Woodle]

Spring 2016 Leadership Circle

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Briana_Cantos Briana Cantos]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Thomas_Haynie Thomas Haynie]

[[Category:Student Priorities|f]]

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-02-12T05:04:10Z

Brianacantos:

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-02-12T05:00:33Z

Brianacantos:

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-02-12T04:58:38Z

Brianacantos:

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Briana Cantos is a sophomore Electrical Engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology. She loves mentoring and helping her peers [[File:Briana-Cantos.JPG|thumb|Briana-Cantos.JPG]]become better engineers as the Chair of the Florida Tech IEEE student branch. Briana is eager to collaborate with other innovators and can be contacted at bcantos2014@my.fit.edu.

At  the end of Spring 2015 semester Briana was elected the Chair of the IEEE student branch and has worked hard this year planning events like the Region 3 IEEE Leadership Workshop, networking with members of the IEEE Melbourne Section and leading the technical team for the 2016 SECON hardware competition. For the Fall 2015 semester she planned a total of ten general meetings and has planned another ten general meeting for the Spring 2016 semester. Briana has been a part of the Society of Women Engineers executive board as the webmaster for the past two years. On April 19, 2015, she was initiated into the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society at Florida Tech and has volunteered as member of the programming committee to help prepare events like chapter meetings and the Engineers Week opening ceremony. In addition, she volunteers to be the leader of the planning committee for the 2016 Engineers Week hosted at Florida Tech from February 22, 2016 to February 27, 2016. 
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[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Priorities:Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2016-02-12T00:23:18Z

Brianacantos:

= Project Pitch Video =

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=GFNgamSK4Bg}}

= =

= Overview =

Florida Tech has also recently been names as one of the '''''Top 50 Entrepreneurial Universities by Forbes''''', which is a testament to the purpose efforts undertaken in recent years to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. As a private institution, Florida Tech has a history of high-quality undergraduate engineering education. However, Florida Tech has yet to realize its entrepreneurial potential due to a lack of formal training and education in entrepreneurship of faculty, the administration, and students. Largely, only a few faculty initially spearheaded the entrepreneurial endeavors, but as with many culture-changing endeavors, the current champions seek to create a critical mass of followers, adopters, and co-implementers.

= Strategy # 1: Increase interdisciplinary collabration for student capstone projects =

== Tactic # 1: Create a pilot capstone design program incorporating college of engineering and college of business students ==

Currently, students spend an entire year at FIT developing an almost industry-ready designs. Many times, these designs go on display at the university, but unfortunately, do not go much further than this. We are trying to incorporate business students into these projects to create successful businesses out of these projects that students work long hours developing.

== Tactic # 2: Amalgamize all individual departmental capstone courses into one overarching, univesity-wide capstone course ==

Senior Design is currently run by each individual major. Multidisciplinary projects exist far and few between, which is a disservice to the students as well as the university. We wish to eradicate the current major-specific senior design program and make cross-major projects more commonplace, if not required. This gives a more in-depth experience of a real industry project.

== Tactic # 3: Get industry members to advise and sponsor the univeristy-wide capstone projects ==

We wish to see more industry-sponsored projects as capstone projects as well. We have had many successful projects sponsored by companies like Northrop Grumman, Harris Corporation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and more. This interaction not only helps students feel the real experience of being an engineer in these companies, but they often are offered jobs as a result. Additionally, with the funding provided by the sponsor, these projects are of minimal cost to the university, enabling other unsponsored projects to receive more funding.

= Strategy # 2: Create awareness about existing facilities for Innovation and Entreprenuership =

== Tactic # 1: Hold an innovative desgin challenge with emphasis on using indicated facilities ==

We wish to hold a student design event, where we will gather in a highly traveled campus location to have the maximum amount of participation (i.e. Dining Hall, Gym, Senior Design Center). We will hold a competition to engage students to utilize as many of our campus resources as possible (i.e. Machine Shop, Electronic Support Lab, Fab Lan, Innovation Center, Library, etc.).

== Tactic # 2: Conduct a rapid design comptetion using articles acquired from a scavenger hunt ==

The competition will be such that all students have the ability to participate in as well as staff and faculty to create a campus wide day of fun. It will be challenging and thought-provoking, but no major will have an advantage. This is good to reach out to the community as well as the students and their professors. 

== Tactic # 3: Hold an Innovation and Entreprenuership Fair ==

We wish to hold an event to showcase all of the innovation that students have been involved with. Some students may have been a part of a big project during an internship or maybe some students invented something in their dorm. If it is innovative, we want to see it! This is a great event to hold to encourage collaboration on projects going forward. If you have a good design, but you do not have the skills to code a stellar User Interface, you may attract a fellow student to help you out at such an event and more. 

= '''Strategy # 3: Start a Student Council''' =

'''Tactic # 1: Hold the first student council meeting'''

'''Description:''' Florida Tech has many great organizations like Tau Beta Pi and Society of Women Engineers that get students involved in projects related to their major and creates networking opportunities. However, it’s difficult to plan collaborative events with other organizations. The objective of the student council is to oversee and plan collaborative events between the engineering and business clubs and societies at Florida Tech. For example, SC would be in charge of planning E-week where we can have guest speakers, competitions and seniors and organizations can showcase their projects. Overall, we want to show others how our students at Florida Tech can apply their knowledge learned in class solve real world problems.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Each organization president will introduce themselves.

·         Dr. Schlegel will explain KEEN’s role in the foundation of the Student Council

·         Team building competition

·         Present why each president should join the student council.

·         Announce next group meeting. (Meetings will be twice a month).

Check out our website for Engineers Week: [http://engineersweekfit.com/ engineersweekfit.com]

'''Tactic # 2: Host Florida Tech Engineering Week 2016'''

'''Description''': Engineering Week 2016 will be from February 22, 2016 to February 27, 2016. Multiple engineering organizations at Florida Tech are working together to have fun filled week to show how great engineering has changed the world we live in.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Got 20 engineering organizations to sponsor events during the week

·         Found speakers for the opening and closing ceremony

·         Host two tours with local engineering companies

·         Showcase the new KEEN weekly innovation challenge

·         Bridge the barrier between different major

·         First successful event planned by multiple organizations

·         Formed new friendships while planning an event that hasn’t been held at Florida Tech since 1999

·         Gained visibility with student and faculty stakeholders

'''Tactic # 3: Group Industry Projects'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 4: Channel of communcation'''

'''Description:''' I’ve learned that communication is a vital skill that can sometimes be overlooked while trying to pass your differential equations class or finish your 20 page lab report. But communication is key for all professional careers. Our goal is to meet face to face with all the presidents of the engineering council and make connection to make communication more efficient. Together the organizations at Florida Tech can accomplish so much more than trying to survive on their own.

'''Milestones'''

·         Avoid schedule conflicts between organizations

·         Network of communication allows smaller clubs to gain more exposure

·         Mentorship between organizations

·         Together we are stronger

'''Tactic # 5: Form a board of advisors'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 6: Launch as a separate organization'''

We wish to hold an….

= Related Links =

[[Florida Institute of Technology|Forida Institute of Technolgy]]

[[Chris Ballentine|Christopher Ballentine]]

[[Chris Woodle|Chris Woodle]]

[[Gerid Paquette|Gerid Paquette]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|f]]

Priorities:Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2016-02-12T00:10:35Z

Brianacantos:

= Project Pitch Video =

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=GFNgamSK4Bg}}

= =

= Overview =

Florida Tech has also recently been names as one of the '''''Top 50 Entrepreneurial Universities by Forbes''''', which is a testament to the purpose efforts undertaken in recent years to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. As a private institution, Florida Tech has a history of high-quality undergraduate engineering education. However, Florida Tech has yet to realize its entrepreneurial potential due to a lack of formal training and education in entrepreneurship of faculty, the administration, and students. Largely, only a few faculty initially spearheaded the entrepreneurial endeavors, but as with many culture-changing endeavors, the current champions seek to create a critical mass of followers, adopters, and co-implementers.

= Strategy # 1: Increase interdisciplinary collabration for student capstone projects =

== Tactic # 1: Create a pilot capstone design program incorporating college of engineering and college of business students ==

Currently, students spend an entire year at FIT developing an almost industry-ready designs. Many times, these designs go on display at the university, but unfortunately, do not go much further than this. We are trying to incorporate business students into these projects to create successful businesses out of these projects that students work long hours developing.

== Tactic # 2: Amalgamize all individual departmental capstone courses into one overarching, univesity-wide capstone course ==

Senior Design is currently run by each individual major. Multidisciplinary projects exist far and few between, which is a disservice to the students as well as the university. We wish to eradicate the current major-specific senior design program and make cross-major projects more commonplace, if not required. This gives a more in-depth experience of a real industry project.

== Tactic # 3: Get industry members to advise and sponsor the univeristy-wide capstone projects ==

We wish to see more industry-sponsored projects as capstone projects as well. We have had many successful projects sponsored by companies like Northrop Grumman, Harris Corporation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and more. This interaction not only helps students feel the real experience of being an engineer in these companies, but they often are offered jobs as a result. Additionally, with the funding provided by the sponsor, these projects are of minimal cost to the university, enabling other unsponsored projects to receive more funding.

= Strategy # 2: Create awareness about existing facilities for Innovation and Entreprenuership =

== Tactic # 1: Hold an innovative desgin challenge with emphasis on using indicated facilities ==

We wish to hold a student design event, where we will gather in a highly traveled campus location to have the maximum amount of participation (i.e. Dining Hall, Gym, Senior Design Center). We will hold a competition to engage students to utilize as many of our campus resources as possible (i.e. Machine Shop, Electronic Support Lab, Fab Lan, Innovation Center, Library, etc.).

== Tactic # 2: Conduct a rapid design comptetion using articles acquired from a scavenger hunt ==

The competition will be such that all students have the ability to participate in as well as staff and faculty to create a campus wide day of fun. It will be challenging and thought-provoking, but no major will have an advantage. This is good to reach out to the community as well as the students and their professors. 

== Tactic # 3: Hold an Innovation and Entreprenuership Fair ==

We wish to hold an event to showcase all of the innovation that students have been involved with. Some students may have been a part of a big project during an internship or maybe some students invented something in their dorm. If it is innovative, we want to see it! This is a great event to hold to encourage collaboration on projects going forward. If you have a good design, but you do not have the skills to code a stellar User Interface, you may attract a fellow student to help you out at such an event and more. 

= '''Strategy # 3: Start a Student Council''' =

'''Tactic # 1: Hold the first student council meeting'''

'''Description:''' Florida Tech has many great organizations like Tau Beta Pi and Society of Women Engineers that get students involved in projects related to their major and creates networking opportunities. However, it’s difficult to plan collaborative events with other organizations. The objective of the student council is to oversee and plan collaborative events between the engineering and business clubs and societies at Florida Tech. For example, SC would be in charge of planning E-week where we can have guest speakers, competitions and seniors and organizations can showcase their projects. Overall, we want to show others how our students at Florida Tech can apply their knowledge learned in class solve real world problems.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Each organization president will introduce themselves.

·         Dr. Schlegel will explain KEEN’s role in the foundation of the Student Council

·         Team building competition

·         Present why each president should join the student council.

·         Announce next group meeting. (Meetings will be twice a month).

Check out our website for Engineers Week: [http://engineersweekfit.com/ engineersweekfit.com]

'''Tactic # 2: Host Florida Tech Engineering Week 2016'''

'''Description''': Engineering Week 2016 will be from February 22, 2016 to February 27, 2016. Multiple engineering organizations at Florida Tech are working together to have fun filled week to show how great engineering has changed the world we live in.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Got 20 engineering organizations to sponsor events during the week

·         Found speakers for the opening and closing ceremony

·         Host two tours with local engineering companies

·         Showcase the new KEEN weekly innovation challenge

·         Bridge the barrier between different major

·         First successful event planned by multiple organizations

·         Formed new friendships while planning an event that hasn’t been held at Florida Tech since 1999

·         Gained visibility with student and faculty stakeholders

'''Tactic # 3: Group Industry Projects'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 4: Channel of communcation'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 5: Form a board of advisors'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 6: Launch as a separate organization'''

We wish to hold an….

= Related Links =

[[Florida Institute of Technology|Forida Institute of Technolgy]]

[[Chris Ballentine|Christopher Ballentine]]

[[Chris Woodle|Chris Woodle]]

[[Gerid Paquette|Gerid Paquette]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|f]]

Priorities:Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2016-02-12T00:08:18Z

Brianacantos:

= Project Pitch Video =

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=GFNgamSK4Bg}}

= =

= Overview =

Florida Tech has also recently been names as one of the '''''Top 50 Entrepreneurial Universities by Forbes''''', which is a testament to the purpose efforts undertaken in recent years to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. As a private institution, Florida Tech has a history of high-quality undergraduate engineering education. However, Florida Tech has yet to realize its entrepreneurial potential due to a lack of formal training and education in entrepreneurship of faculty, the administration, and students. Largely, only a few faculty initially spearheaded the entrepreneurial endeavors, but as with many culture-changing endeavors, the current champions seek to create a critical mass of followers, adopters, and co-implementers.

= Strategy # 1: Increase interdisciplinary collabration for student capstone projects =

== Tactic # 1: Create a pilot capstone design program incorporating college of engineering and college of business students ==

Currently, students spend an entire year at FIT developing an almost industry-ready designs. Many times, these designs go on display at the university, but unfortunately, do not go much further than this. We are trying to incorporate business students into these projects to create successful businesses out of these projects that students work long hours developing.

== Tactic # 2: Amalgamize all individual departmental capstone courses into one overarching, univesity-wide capstone course ==

Senior Design is currently run by each individual major. Multidisciplinary projects exist far and few between, which is a disservice to the students as well as the university. We wish to eradicate the current major-specific senior design program and make cross-major projects more commonplace, if not required. This gives a more in-depth experience of a real industry project.

== Tactic # 3: Get industry members to advise and sponsor the univeristy-wide capstone projects ==

We wish to see more industry-sponsored projects as capstone projects as well. We have had many successful projects sponsored by companies like Northrop Grumman, Harris Corporation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and more. This interaction not only helps students feel the real experience of being an engineer in these companies, but they often are offered jobs as a result. Additionally, with the funding provided by the sponsor, these projects are of minimal cost to the university, enabling other unsponsored projects to receive more funding.

= Strategy # 2: Create awareness about existing facilities for Innovation and Entreprenuership =

== Tactic # 1: Hold an innovative desgin challenge with emphasis on using indicated facilities ==

We wish to hold a student design event, where we will gather in a highly traveled campus location to have the maximum amount of participation (i.e. Dining Hall, Gym, Senior Design Center). We will hold a competition to engage students to utilize as many of our campus resources as possible (i.e. Machine Shop, Electronic Support Lab, Fab Lan, Innovation Center, Library, etc.).

== Tactic # 2: Conduct a rapid design comptetion using articles acquired from a scavenger hunt ==

The competition will be such that all students have the ability to participate in as well as staff and faculty to create a campus wide day of fun. It will be challenging and thought-provoking, but no major will have an advantage. This is good to reach out to the community as well as the students and their professors. 

== Tactic # 3: Hold an Innovation and Entreprenuership Fair ==

We wish to hold an event to showcase all of the innovation that students have been involved with. Some students may have been a part of a big project during an internship or maybe some students invented something in their dorm. If it is innovative, we want to see it! This is a great event to hold to encourage collaboration on projects going forward. If you have a good design, but you do not have the skills to code a stellar User Interface, you may attract a fellow student to help you out at such an event and more. 

= '''Strategy # 3: Start a Student Council''' =

'''Tactic # 1: Hold the first student council meeting'''

'''Description:''' Florida Tech has many great organizations like Tau Beta Pi and Society of Women Engineers that get students involved in projects related to their major and creates networking opportunities. However, it’s difficult to plan collaborative events with other organizations. The objective of the student council is to oversee and plan collaborative events between the engineering and business clubs and societies at Florida Tech. For example, SC would be in charge of planning E-week where we can have guest speakers, competitions and seniors and organizations can showcase their projects. Overall, we want to show others how our students at Florida Tech can apply their knowledge learned in class solve real world problems.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Each organization president will introduce themselves.

·         Dr. Schlegel will explain KEEN’s role in the foundation of the Student Council

·         Team building competition

·         Present why each president should join the student council.

·         Announce next group meeting. (Meetings will be twice a month).

'''Tactic # 2: Host Florida Tech Engineering Week 2016'''

'''Description''': Engineering Week 2016 will be from February 22, 2016 to February 27, 2016. Multiple engineering organizations at Florida Tech are working together to have fun filled week to show how great engineering has changed the world we live in.

'''Milestones:'''

·         Got 20 engineering organizations to sponsor events during the week

·         Found speakers for the opening and closing ceremony

·         Host two tours with local engineering companies

·         Showcase the new KEEN weekly innovation challenge

·         Bridge the barrier between different major

·         First successful event planned by multiple organizations

·         Formed new friendships while planning an event that hasn’t been held at Florida Tech since 1999

·         Gained visibility with student and faculty stakeholders

'''Tactic # 3: Group Industry Projects'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 4: Channel of communcation'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 5: Form a board of advisors'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 6: Launch as a separate organization'''

We wish to hold an….

= Related Links =

[[Florida Institute of Technology|Forida Institute of Technolgy]]

[[Chris Ballentine|Christopher Ballentine]]

[[Chris Woodle|Chris Woodle]]

[[Gerid Paquette|Gerid Paquette]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|f]]

Priorities:Florida Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2016-02-11T23:20:38Z

Brianacantos:

= Project Pitch Video =

{{#Widget:Youtube|id=GFNgamSK4Bg}}

= =

= Overview =

Florida Tech has also recently been names as one of the '''''Top 50 Entrepreneurial Universities by Forbes''''', which is a testament to the purpose efforts undertaken in recent years to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. As a private institution, Florida Tech has a history of high-quality undergraduate engineering education. However, Florida Tech has yet to realize its entrepreneurial potential due to a lack of formal training and education in entrepreneurship of faculty, the administration, and students. Largely, only a few faculty initially spearheaded the entrepreneurial endeavors, but as with many culture-changing endeavors, the current champions seek to create a critical mass of followers, adopters, and co-implementers.

= Strategy # 1: Increase interdisciplinary collabration for student capstone projects =

== Tactic # 1: Create a pilot capstone design program incorporating college of engineering and college of business students ==

Currently, students spend an entire year at FIT developing an almost industry-ready designs. Many times, these designs go on display at the university, but unfortunately, do not go much further than this. We are trying to incorporate business students into these projects to create successful businesses out of these projects that students work long hours developing.

== Tactic # 2: Amalgamize all individual departmental capstone courses into one overarching, univesity-wide capstone course ==

Senior Design is currently run by each individual major. Multidisciplinary projects exist far and few between, which is a disservice to the students as well as the university. We wish to eradicate the current major-specific senior design program and make cross-major projects more commonplace, if not required. This gives a more in-depth experience of a real industry project.

== Tactic # 3: Get industry members to advise and sponsor the univeristy-wide capstone projects ==

We wish to see more industry-sponsored projects as capstone projects as well. We have had many successful projects sponsored by companies like Northrop Grumman, Harris Corporation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and more. This interaction not only helps students feel the real experience of being an engineer in these companies, but they often are offered jobs as a result. Additionally, with the funding provided by the sponsor, these projects are of minimal cost to the university, enabling other unsponsored projects to receive more funding.

= Strategy # 2: Create awareness about existing facilities for Innovation and Entreprenuership =

== Tactic # 1: Hold an innovative desgin challenge with emphasis on using indicated facilities ==

We wish to hold a student design event, where we will gather in a highly traveled campus location to have the maximum amount of participation (i.e. Dining Hall, Gym, Senior Design Center). We will hold a competition to engage students to utilize as many of our campus resources as possible (i.e. Machine Shop, Electronic Support Lab, Fab Lan, Innovation Center, Library, etc.).

== Tactic # 2: Conduct a rapid design comptetion using articles acquired from a scavenger hunt ==

The competition will be such that all students have the ability to participate in as well as staff and faculty to create a campus wide day of fun. It will be challenging and thought-provoking, but no major will have an advantage. This is good to reach out to the community as well as the students and their professors. 

== Tactic # 3: Hold an Innovation and Entreprenuership Fair ==

We wish to hold an event to showcase all of the innovation that students have been involved with. Some students may have been a part of a big project during an internship or maybe some students invented something in their dorm. If it is innovative, we want to see it! This is a great event to hold to encourage collaboration on projects going forward. If you have a good design, but you do not have the skills to code a stellar User Interface, you may attract a fellow student to help you out at such an event and more. 

= '''Strategy # 3: Start a Student Council''' =

'''Tactic # 1: Hold the first student council meeting'''

Florida Tech has many great organizations like Tau Beta Pi and Society of Women Engineers that get students involved in projects related to their major and creates networking opportunities. However, it’s difficult to plan collaborative events with other organizations. The objective of the student council is to oversee and plan collaborative events between the engineering and business clubs and societies at Florida Tech. For example, SC would be in charge of planning E-week where we can have guest speakers, competitions and seniors and organizations can showcase their projects. Overall, we want to show others how our students at Florida Tech can apply their knowledge learned in class solve real world problems.

Meeting Agenda:

·         Each organization president will introduce themselves.

·         Dr. Schlegel will explain KEEN’s role in the foundation of the Student Council

·         Team building competition

·         Present why each president should join the student council.

·         Announce next group meeting. (Meetings will be twice a month).

'''Tactic # 2: Host Florida Tech Engineering Week 2016'''

Engineering Week will be from February 22,2016 to February 27,2016.

'''Tactic # 3: Group Industry Projects'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 4: Channel of communcation'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 5: Form a board of advisors'''

We wish to hold an….

'''Tactic # 6: Launch as a separate organization'''

We wish to hold an….

= Related Links =

[[Florida Institute of Technology|Forida Institute of Technolgy]]

[[Chris Ballentine|Christopher Ballentine]]

[[Chris Woodle|Chris Woodle]]

[[Gerid Paquette|Gerid Paquette]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|f]]

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-02-11T04:24:27Z

Brianacantos:

Briana Cantos is a sophomore Electrical Engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology. She loves and helping her peers [[File:Briana-Cantos.JPG|thumb]]become better engineers as the Chair of the Florida Tech IEEE student branch. Briana is eager to collaborate with other innovators and can be contacted at bcantos2014@my.fit.edu.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-02-11T04:23:40Z

Brianacantos:

Briana Cantos is a sophomore Electrical Engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology. She loves

http://universityinnovation.org/images/4/41/Briana-Cantos.JPGmentoring and helping her peers become better engineers as the Chair of the Florida Tech IEEE student branch. Briana is eager to collaborate with other innovators and can be contacted at bcantos2014@my.fit.edu.

[[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]]

File:Briana-Cantos.JPG

2016-02-11T04:20:29Z

Brianacantos:

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-02-11T04:09:14Z

Brianacantos:

Briana Cantos is a sophomore Electrical Engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology. She <span class="details" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; display: inline-block;">loves mentoring and helping her peers become better engineers as the Chair of the Florida Tech IEEE student branch. Briana is eager to collaborate with other innovators and can be contacted at bcantos2014@my.fit.edu.

[[Category:Student Contributors]]

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-02-11T04:07:08Z

Brianacantos:

Briana Cantos is a sophomore Electrical Engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology. She <span class="details" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; display: inline-block;">loves mentoring and helping her peers become better engineers as the Chair of the Florida Tech IEEE student branch. Briana is eager to collaborate with other innovators and can be contacted at bcantos2014@my.fit.edu.

Fellow:Briana Cantos

2016-02-11T04:05:12Z

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Organization:EPICS - Purdue

2016-01-18T22:16:38Z

Brianacantos:

= Overview =

In order to respond to our Community Services needs and our undergraduate students future needs for solid expertise in their discipline, Purdue University has created '''EPICS: Engineering Projects In Community Service.''' EPICS is a unique program in which teams of undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations. EPICS was founded at Purdue University in Fall 1995.

The program begun in 1995 when their current Dean (Dr. Leah Jamieson) and Dr. Edward Coyle started EPICS. It has continued to expand to reach all majors on our campus.  It was project teams from the concept and has continued that way.  Each team has approximately 2-3 projects per team.  It has been replicated at approximately 21 other universities.  

= Purpose =

The Purpose of EPICS is to offer Community services at the same time that they improve their Undergraduate students skills.

EPICS students gain long-term define-design-build-test-deploy-support experience, communication skills, experience on multidisciplinary teams, and leadership and project management skills. They gain an awareness of professional ethics, the role of the customer in engineering design, and the role that engineering can play in the community. Community organizations gain access to technology and expertise that would normally be prohibitively expensive, giving them the potential to improve their quality of service or to provide new services. In partnership with Purdue’s Discovery Park, the EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative helps students and community partners explore entrepreneurship opportunities growing out of EPICS projects.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =
<ul style="outline: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">
<li>Gain design experience of real systems</li>
<li>Develop teamwork & communication skills</li>
<li>Gain project planning & leadership experience</li>
<li>Develop customer-awareness</li>
<li>Gain understanding of ethical, economic, & legal issues</li>
<li>Get involved in the community</li>
<li>Have something to talk about in interviews!</li>
<li>Students receive (1-2) academic credits for participation</li>
<li>Projects that prepare you for a professional environment</li>
<li>Well-funded</li>
<li>Polish entrepreneurial ideas</li>
<li>Tool for students</li>
<li>No pre-requisites</li>
<li>Elective course you can take for multiple semesters</li>
<li>Breaks the traditional classroom experience</li>
<li>Multidisciplinary design projects based on community needs</li>
<li>BE EPIC & MAKE A DIFFERENCE!</li>
</ul>

= Check out Purdue's EPICS website to learn more: =

[http://www.purdue.edu/epics http://www.purdue.edu/epics]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dInAkncBx4g&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dInAkncBx4g&feature=youtu.be]

= Awards and Recognition =

EPICS has received major awards from the Carnegie Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Society for Engineering Education, the IEEE Education Society, Campus Compact, the Corporate and Foundation Alliance, Purdue University, and the Governor and Legislature of Indiana. It was featured in the PBS series Communities Building Community. EPICS has been supported by over $5.1M in federal grants and over $5.5M in corporate and alumni gifts.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

The impact achieved for students and campus seems to be huge. They range from a wide variety of subjects to size and scope of these. As described above, the program has received major awards and plenty of funding in order to proceed with their initiative.

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

= NEEDS AND GOALS =

Employers are looking for students that can work on diverse teams to solve real-world challenges. Companies don't have the time or resources to train good students into great professionals. How are students going to mature into leaders and problem-solvers with on theory based courses? Purdue's EPICS course allows students to develop their communication skills, face real-time work environment issues, and really help their community with their own discipline skills.

The benefits of having a program like EPICS are unimaginable. Students grow so much from practice and failure. The best way to become a better professional is to challenge yourself with a project that doesn't just end after the semester grades are put in the computer. Developing partnerships with local companies adds good public relationships for a university. Students can really see that they can actually helps others with their talents.

= SUSTAINABILITY =

If you want to establish a program like EPICS at your university, two of the most important stakeholders are faculty and your partnerships.

Look for faculty that are open to change to the traditional learning method of listening and learning. Ask faculty what types of projects they are interested in working. Discuss the value of better students that are one of the many results of a program like EPICS. 

Partnership are the local companies like Habit of Humanity that ask for students enrolled in the EPICS program to work on their projects. It's important for the members working on projects to empathize with the end-users of the project. This is multidisciplinary team project so be open to hearing other ideas to best serve your partnerships. Look at organizations that are already used to working with your university. Maintaining partnerships are vital to creating better projects that survive past a single semester. The community benefits from projects that are worked on by students that are committed to solving a problem they are passionate about making a difference.

= LESSONS LEARNED AND TIPS FOR OTHER  =
<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">
<li>Be prepared to be surprised... Like in the real-world, unpredictable problems can arise.</li>
<li>The program needs committed and supportive students and faculty.</li>
<li>It might take time for students to accept that the skills learned in this program apply to the real world.</li>
<li>Find faculty that are open to change  </li>
<li>Don't be afraid to take risks</li>
<li>Have fun!</li>
</ul>

= Contact Information =

'''For information or general questions, please contact: The EPICS Program at Purdue''' Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering Room 1200 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Phone: 765-496-1068 Fax: 765-494-0052 Email: [mailto:epics@purdue.edu epics@purdue.edu]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:EPICS - Purdue

2016-01-18T22:08:53Z

Brianacantos:

= Overview =

In order to respond to our Community Services needs and our undergraduate students future needs for solid expertise in their discipline, Purdue University has created '''EPICS: Engineering Projects In Community Service.''' EPICS is a unique program in which teams of undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations. EPICS was founded at Purdue University in Fall 1995.

The program begun in 1995 when their current Dean (Dr. Leah Jamieson) and Dr. Edward Coyle started EPICS. It has continued to expand to reach all majors on our campus.  It was project teams from the concept and has continued that way.  Each team has approximately 2-3 projects per team.  It has been replicated at approximately 21 other universities.  

= Purpose =

The Purpose of EPICS is to offer Community services at the same time that they improve their Undergraduate students skills.

EPICS students gain long-term define-design-build-test-deploy-support experience, communication skills, experience on multidisciplinary teams, and leadership and project management skills. They gain an awareness of professional ethics, the role of the customer in engineering design, and the role that engineering can play in the community. Community organizations gain access to technology and expertise that would normally be prohibitively expensive, giving them the potential to improve their quality of service or to provide new services. In partnership with Purdue’s Discovery Park, the EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative helps students and community partners explore entrepreneurship opportunities growing out of EPICS projects.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =
<ul style="outline: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">
<li>Gain design experience of real systems</li>
<li>Develop teamwork & communication skills</li>
<li>Gain project planning & leadership experience</li>
<li>Develop customer-awareness</li>
<li>Gain understanding of ethical, economic, & legal issues</li>
<li>Get involved in the community</li>
<li>Have something to talk about in interviews!</li>
<li>Students receive (1-2) academic credits for participation</li>
<li>Projects that prepare you for a professional environment</li>
<li>Well-funded</li>
<li>Polish entrepreneurial ideas</li>
<li>Tool for students</li>
<li>No pre-requisites</li>
<li>Elective course you can take for multiple semesters</li>
<li>Breaks the traditional classroom experience</li>
<li>Multidisciplinary design projects based on community needs</li>
<li>BE EPIC & MAKE A DIFFERENCE!</li>
</ul>

= =

= Awards and Recognition =

EPICS has received major awards from the Carnegie Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Society for Engineering Education, the IEEE Education Society, Campus Compact, the Corporate and Foundation Alliance, Purdue University, and the Governor and Legislature of Indiana. It was featured in the PBS series Communities Building Community. EPICS has been supported by over $5.1M in federal grants and over $5.5M in corporate and alumni gifts.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

The impact achieved for students and campus seems to be huge. They range from a wide variety of subjects to size and scope of these. As described above, the program has received major awards and plenty of funding in order to proceed with their initiative.

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

= NEEDS AND GOALS =

Employers are looking for students that can work on diverse teams to solve real-world challenges. Companies don't have the time or resources to train good students into great professionals. How are students going to mature into leaders and problem-solvers with on theory based courses? Purdue's EPICS course allows students to develop their communication skills, face real-time work environment issues, and really help their community with their own discipline skills.

The benefits of having a program like EPICS are unimaginable. Students grow so much from practice and failure. The best way to become a better professional is to challenge yourself with a project that doesn't just end after the semester grades are put in the computer. Developing partnerships with local companies adds good public relationships for a university. Students can really see that they can actually helps others with their talents.

= SUSTAINABILITY =

If you want to establish a program like EPICS at your university, two of the most important stakeholders are faculty and your partnerships.

Look for faculty that are open to change to the traditional learning method of listening and learning. Ask faculty what types of projects they are interested in working. Discuss the value of better students that are one of the many results of a program like EPICS. 

Partnership are the local companies like Habit of Humanity that ask for students enrolled in the EPICS program to work on their projects. It's important for the members working on projects to empathize with the end-users of the project. This is multidisciplinary team project so be open to hearing other ideas to best serve your partnerships. Look at organizations that are already used to working with your university. Maintaining partnerships are vital to creating better projects that survive past a single semester. The community benefits from projects that are worked on by students that are committed to solving a problem they are passionate about making a difference.

= LESSONS LEARNED AND TIPS FOR OTHER  =
<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">
<li>Be prepared to be surprised... Like in the real-world, unpredictable problems can arise.</li>
<li>The program needs committed and supportive students and faculty.</li>
<li>It might take time for students to accept that the skills learned in this program apply to the real world.</li>
<li>Find faculty that are open to change  </li>
<li>Don't be afraid to take risks</li>
<li>Have fun!</li>
</ul>

= Contact Information =

'''For information or general questions, please contact: The EPICS Program at Purdue''' Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering Room 1200 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Phone: 765-496-1068 Fax: 765-494-0052 Email: [mailto:epics@purdue.edu epics@purdue.edu]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:EPICS - Purdue

2016-01-18T22:08:22Z

Brianacantos:

= Overview =

In order to respond to our Community Services needs and our undergraduate students future needs for solid expertise in their discipline, Purdue University has created '''EPICS: Engineering Projects In Community Service.''' EPICS is a unique program in which teams of undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations. EPICS was founded at Purdue University in Fall 1995.

The program begun in 1995 when their current Dean (Dr. Leah Jamieson) and Dr. Edward Coyle started EPICS. It has continued to expand to reach all majors on our campus.  It was project teams from the concept and has continued that way.  Each team has approximately 2-3 projects per team.  It has been replicated at approximately 21 other universities.  

= Purpose =

The Purpose of EPICS is to offer Community services at the same time that they improve their Undergraduate students skills.

EPICS students gain long-term define-design-build-test-deploy-support experience, communication skills, experience on multidisciplinary teams, and leadership and project management skills. They gain an awareness of professional ethics, the role of the customer in engineering design, and the role that engineering can play in the community. Community organizations gain access to technology and expertise that would normally be prohibitively expensive, giving them the potential to improve their quality of service or to provide new services. In partnership with Purdue’s Discovery Park, the EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative helps students and community partners explore entrepreneurship opportunities growing out of EPICS projects.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =
<ul style="outline: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">
<li>Gain design experience of real systems</li>
<li>Develop teamwork & communication skills</li>
<li>Gain project planning & leadership experience</li>
<li>Develop customer-awareness</li>
<li>Gain understanding of ethical, economic, & legal issues</li>
<li>Get involved in the community</li>
<li>Have something to talk about in interviews!</li>
<li>Students receive (1-2) academic credits for participation</li>
<li>Projects that prepare you for a professional environment</li>
<li>Well-funded</li>
<li>Polish entrepreneurial ideas</li>
<li>Tool for students</li>
<li>No pre-requisites</li>
<li>Elective course you can take for multiple semesters</li>
<li>Breaks the traditional classroom experience</li>
<li>Multidisciplinary design projects based on community needs</li>
<li>BE EPIC & MAKE A DIFFERENCE!</li>
</ul>

= Awards and Recognition =

EPICS has received major awards from the Carnegie Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Society for Engineering Education, the IEEE Education Society, Campus Compact, the Corporate and Foundation Alliance, Purdue University, and the Governor and Legislature of Indiana. It was featured in the PBS series Communities Building Community. EPICS has been supported by over $5.1M in federal grants and over $5.5M in corporate and alumni gifts.

 

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

The impact achieved for students and campus seems to be huge. They range from a wide variety of subjects to size and scope of these. As described above, the program has received major awards and plenty of funding in order to proceed with their initiative.

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

= NEEDS AND GOALS =

Employers are looking for students that can work on diverse teams to solve real-world challenges. Companies don't have the time or resources to train good students into great professionals. How are students going to mature into leaders and problem-solvers with on theory based courses? Purdue's EPICS course allows students to develop their communication skills, face real-time work environment issues, and really help their community with their own discipline skills.

The benefits of having a program like EPICS are unimaginable. Students grow so much from practice and failure. The best way to become a better professional is to challenge yourself with a project that doesn't just end after the semester grades are put in the computer. Developing partnerships with local companies adds good public relationships for a university. Students can really see that they can actually helps others with their talents.

= SUSTAINABILITY =

If you want to establish a program like EPICS at your university, two of the most important stakeholders are faculty and your partnerships.

Look for faculty that are open to change to the traditional learning method of listening and learning. Ask faculty what types of projects they are interested in working. Discuss the value of better students that are one of the many results of a program like EPICS. 

Partnership are the local companies like Habit of Humanity that ask for students enrolled in the EPICS program to work on their projects. It's important for the members working on projects to empathize with the end-users of the project. This is multidisciplinary team project so be open to hearing other ideas to best serve your partnerships. Look at organizations that are already used to working with your university. Maintaining partnerships are vital to creating better projects that survive past a single semester. The community benefits from projects that are worked on by students that are committed to solving a problem they are passionate about making a difference.

= LESSONS LEARNED AND TIPS FOR OTHER  =
<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">
<li>Be prepared to be surprised... Like in the real-world, unpredictable problems can arise.</li>
<li>The program needs committed and supportive students and faculty.</li>
<li>It might take time for students to accept that the skills learned in this program apply to the real world.</li>
<li>Find faculty that are open to change  </li>
<li>Don't be afraid to take risks</li>
<li>Have fun!</li>
</ul>

= Contact Information =

'''For information or general questions, please contact: The EPICS Program at Purdue''' Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering Room 1200 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Phone: 765-496-1068 Fax: 765-494-0052 Email: [mailto:epics@purdue.edu epics@purdue.edu]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:EPICS - Purdue

2016-01-18T22:07:59Z

Brianacantos:

= Overview =

In order to respond to our Community Services needs and our undergraduate students future needs for solid expertise in their discipline, Purdue University has created '''EPICS: Engineering Projects In Community Service.''' EPICS is a unique program in which teams of undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations. EPICS was founded at Purdue University in Fall 1995.

The program begun in 1995 when their current Dean (Dr. Leah Jamieson) and Dr. Edward Coyle started EPICS. It has continued to expand to reach all majors on our campus.  It was project teams from the concept and has continued that way.  Each team has approximately 2-3 projects per team.  It has been replicated at approximately 21 other universities.  

= Purpose =

The Purpose of EPICS is to offer Community services at the same time that they improve their Undergraduate students skills.

EPICS students gain long-term define-design-build-test-deploy-support experience, communication skills, experience on multidisciplinary teams, and leadership and project management skills. They gain an awareness of professional ethics, the role of the customer in engineering design, and the role that engineering can play in the community. Community organizations gain access to technology and expertise that would normally be prohibitively expensive, giving them the potential to improve their quality of service or to provide new services. In partnership with Purdue’s Discovery Park, the EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative helps students and community partners explore entrepreneurship opportunities growing out of EPICS projects.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =
<ul style="outline: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">
<li>Gain design experience of real systems</li>
<li>Develop teamwork & communication skills</li>
<li>Gain project planning & leadership experience</li>
<li>Develop customer-awareness</li>
<li>Gain understanding of ethical, economic, & legal issues</li>
<li>Get involved in the community</li>
<li>Have something to talk about in interviews!</li>
<li>Students receive (1-2) academic credits for participation</li>
<li>Projects that prepare you for a professional environment</li>
<li>Well-funded</li>
<li>Polish entrepreneurial ideas</li>
<li>Tool for students</li>
<li>No pre-requisites</li>
<li>Elective course you can take for multiple semesters</li>
<li>Breaks the traditional classroom experience</li>
<li>Multidisciplinary design projects based on community needs</li>
<li>BE EPIC & MAKE A DIFFERENCE!</li>
</ul>

= Awards and Recognition =

EPICS has received major awards from the Carnegie Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Society for Engineering Education, the IEEE Education Society, Campus Compact, the Corporate and Foundation Alliance, Purdue University, and the Governor and Legislature of Indiana. It was featured in the PBS series Communities Building Community. EPICS has been supported by over $5.1M in federal grants and over $5.5M in corporate and alumni gifts.

 

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

The impact achieved for students and campus seems to be huge. They range from a wide variety of subjects to size and scope of these. As described above, the program has received major awards and plenty of funding in order to proceed with their initiative.

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

= NEEDS AND GOALS =

Employers are looking for students that can work on diverse teams to solve real-world challenges. Companies don't have the time or resources to train good students into great professionals. How are students going to mature into leaders and problem-solvers with on theory based courses? Purdue's EPICS course allows students to develop their communication skills, face real-time work environment issues, and really help their community with their own discipline skills.

The benefits of having a program like EPICS are unimaginable. Students grow so much from practice and failure. The best way to become a better professional is to challenge yourself with a project that doesn't just end after the semester grades are put in the computer. Developing partnerships with local companies adds good public relationships for a university. Students can really see that they can actually helps others with their talents.

= SUSTAINABILITY =

If you want to establish a program like EPICS at your university, two of the most important stakeholders are faculty and your partnerships.

Look for faculty that are open to change to the traditional learning method of listening and learning. Ask faculty what types of projects they are interested in working. Discuss the value of better students that are one of the many results of a program like EPICS. 

Partnership are the local companies like Habit of Humanity that ask for students enrolled in the EPICS program to work on their projects. It's important for the members working on projects to empathize with the end-users of the project. This is multidisciplinary team project so be open to hearing other ideas to best serve your partnerships. Look at organizations that are already used to working with your university. Maintaining partnerships are vital to creating better projects that survive past a single semester. The community benefits from projects that are worked on by students that are committed to solving a problem they are passionate about making a difference.

= LESSONS LEARNED AND TIPS FOR OTHER  =
<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">
<li>Be prepared to be surprised... Like in the real-world, unpredictable problems can arise.</li>
<li>The program needs committed and supportive students and faculty.</li>
<li>It might take time for students to accept that the skills learned in this program apply to the real world.</li>
<li>Find faculty that are open to change  </li>
<li>Don't be afraid to take risks</li>
<li>Have fun!</li>
</ul>

= Contact Information =

'''For information or general questions, please contact: The EPICS Program at Purdue''' Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering Room 1200 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Phone: 765-496-1068 Fax: 765-494-0052 Email: [mailto:epics@purdue.edu epics@purdue.edu]

[[Category:Resources]]

Organization:EPICS - Purdue

2016-01-18T22:07:34Z

Brianacantos:

= Overview =

In order to respond to our Community Services needs and our undergraduate students future needs for solid expertise in their discipline, Purdue University has created '''EPICS: Engineering Projects In Community Service.''' EPICS is a unique program in which teams of undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations. EPICS was founded at Purdue University in Fall 1995.

The program begun in 1995 when their current Dean (Dr. Leah Jamieson) and Dr. Edward Coyle started EPICS. It has continued to expand to reach all majors on our campus.  It was project teams from the concept and has continued that way.  Each team has approximately 2-3 projects per team.  It has been replicated at approximately 21 other universities.  

= Purpose =

The Purpose of EPICS is to offer Community services at the same time that they improve their Undergraduate students skills.

EPICS students gain long-term define-design-build-test-deploy-support experience, communication skills, experience on multidisciplinary teams, and leadership and project management skills. They gain an awareness of professional ethics, the role of the customer in engineering design, and the role that engineering can play in the community. Community organizations gain access to technology and expertise that would normally be prohibitively expensive, giving them the potential to improve their quality of service or to provide new services. In partnership with Purdue’s Discovery Park, the EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative helps students and community partners explore entrepreneurship opportunities growing out of EPICS projects.

= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =
<ul style="outline: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">
<li>Gain design experience of real systems</li>
<li>Develop teamwork & communication skills</li>
<li>Gain project planning & leadership experience</li>
<li>Develop customer-awareness</li>
<li>Gain understanding of ethical, economic, & legal issues</li>
<li>Get involved in the community</li>
<li>Have something to talk about in interviews!</li>
<li>Students receive (1-2) academic credits for participation</li>
<li>Projects that prepare you for a professional environment</li>
<li>Well-funded</li>
<li>Polish entrepreneurial ideas</li>
<li>Tool for students</li>
<li>No pre-requisites</li>
<li>Elective course you can take for multiple semesters</li>
<li>Breaks the traditional classroom experience</li>
<li>Multidisciplinary design projects based on community needs</li>
<li>BE EPIC & MAKE A DIFFERENCE!</li>
</ul>

= Awards and Recognition =

EPICS has received major awards from the Carnegie Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Society for Engineering Education, the IEEE Education Society, Campus Compact, the Corporate and Foundation Alliance, Purdue University, and the Governor and Legislature of Indiana. It was featured in the PBS series Communities Building Community. EPICS has been supported by over $5.1M in federal grants and over $5.5M in corporate and alumni gifts.

 

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

The impact achieved for students and campus seems to be huge. They range from a wide variety of subjects to size and scope of these. As described above, the program has received major awards and plenty of funding in order to proceed with their initiative.

= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

= NEEDS AND GOALS =

Employers are looking for students that can work on diverse teams to solve real-world challenges. Companies don't have the time or resources to train good students into great professionals. How are students going to mature into leaders and problem-solvers with on theory based courses? Purdue's EPICS course allows students to develop their communication skills, face real-time work environment issues, and really help their community with their own discipline skills.

The benefits of having a program like EPICS are unimaginable. Students grow so much from practice and failure. The best way to become a better professional is to challenge yourself with a project that doesn't just end after the semester grades are put in the computer. Developing partnerships with local companies adds good public relationships for a university. Students can really see that they can actually helps others with their talents.

= SUSTAINABILITY =

If you want to establish a program like EPICS at your university, two of the most important stakeholders are faculty and your partnerships.

Look for faculty that are open to change to the traditional learning method of listening and learning. Ask faculty what types of projects they are interested in working. Discuss the value of better students that are one of the many results of a program like EPICS. 

Partnership are the local companies like Habit of Humanity that ask for students enrolled in the EPICS program to work on their projects. It's important for the members working on projects to empathize with the end-users of the project. This is multidisciplinary team project so be open to hearing other ideas to best serve your partnerships. Look at organizations that are already used to working with your university. Maintaining partnerships are vital to creating better projects that survive past a single semester. The community benefits from projects that are worked on by students that are committed to solving a problem they are passionate about making a difference.

= LESSONS LEARNED AND TIPS FOR OTHER  =
<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">
<li>Be prepared to be surprised... Like in the real-world, unpredictable problems can arise.</li>
<li>The program needs committed and supportive students and faculty.</li>
<li>It might take time for students to accept that the skills learned in this program apply to the real world.</li>
<li>Find faculty that are open to change  </li>
<li>Don't be afraid to take risks</li>
<li>Have fun!</li>
</ul>

= Contact Information =

'''For information or general questions, please contact: The EPICS Program at Purdue''' Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering Room 1200 701 West Stadium Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045 Phone: 765-496-1068 Fax: 765-494-0052 Email: [mailto:epics@purdue.edu epics@purdue.edu]

[[Category:Resources]]