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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">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 </span>'''EPICS: Engineering Projects In Community Service.''' <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">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.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><brspan style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;">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. </span>
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