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Students Faculty & Staff Community partners

EPICS - What is it?. Students Faculty & Staff Community partners. Working together to make a difference. Goals. Design and implement engineering solutions to real problems Develop teamwork & communication skills Gain project planning & leadership experience

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Students Faculty & Staff Community partners

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  1. EPICS - What is it? • Students • Faculty & Staff • Community partners Working together to make a difference

  2. Goals • Design and implement engineering solutions to real problems • Develop teamwork & communication skills • Gain project planning & leadership experience • Develop customer-awareness • Gain awareness of ethical, economic,& legal issues • Foster community involvement

  3. Organization • Large-team experience:teams of 10-15 students • Vertically-integrated teams:freshmen+sophomores+juniors+seniors+graduate students • Long-term design experience:academic credit throughout the student’s career

  4. Organization (cont.) • Partnerships with local community organizations: together, the students and community partner identify engineering problems faced by the agency • Multidisciplinary projects:BME, ME, IE, ECE, ChE, MS&E, Business, EMA, Art, CS, and others • Realistic Experiencedefine-design-build-test-deploy-support

  5. Course Structure • Common meeting time for all teams (Wed. 4:30-7:30 p.m.) • Faculty advisor for each team • 1-3 credits/semester • May register for up to 7 semesters • May fulfill technical elective or senior design requirements

  6. Current Projects

  7. Movement Disabilities • Students are working with the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine to improve page turners for quadriplegic patients • Advisor : Prof. Frank Fronczak, ME

  8. Voice Improvement • Students are working with the Department of Communicative Disorders to design a portable device that monitors the voice loudness of speech impaired patients by using a throat microphone • Advisor: Prof. Willis Tompkins, BME

  9. Biofeedback / Stress Management • Students are working with the Department of Medicine to design a device for measuring brain waves and providing feedback during meditation • Advisor: Prof. John Webster, BME

  10. Shared Volunteer System • Students are designing an information management system for the Morgridge Center, RSVP and United Way’s Volunteer System • Advisors: Prof. Fred Bradley, MS&E Leah Newman, IE

  11. Coordinating Leadership Opportunities • Students are collaborating with the Student Organization Office to develop a web-based information management system • Advisors: Prof. Fred Bradley, MS&E Leah Newman, IE

  12. Campus Sustainability • Students are working with the Sustainability Forum and Center for Sustainability to design systems to educate the public about material flows andhuman activity to contribute to the quality of life • Advisors: Prof. Fred Bradley, MS&E Leah Newman, IE

  13. Homelessness Prevention Network • Students are working with the Madison Homelessness Prevention Network to create an information management system for the Madison community service organizations • Advisors: Prof. Fred Bradley, MS&E Leah Newman, IE

  14. Project Partners • Community organizations: • Madison Community Development Block Grant Office, • Morgridge Center for Public Service, • Retired Senior and Volunteer Program, • United Way’s Volunteer Center • Departments: • Rehabilitation Medicine, • Communicative Disorders, • Medicine

  15. Project Partners • UW service and outreach: • Sustainability Forum • Environmental Management Center • Center for Sustainability and Global Environment • Student Organization Office • Leadership Institute and Office for Human Resource Development

  16. Role of Project Partners • Provide challenging, real projects • Be involved throughout the project • Evaluate prototypes; suggest improvements • Use the final project • Suggest further projects • Demonstrate their mission to students • Provide better service to the community

  17. Real-world problem solving Design Teamwork Communication skills Multidisciplinary experience Project management Leadership Professional responsibility Web site development Community involvement Information systems Creativity Benefits to students

  18. Benefits to Community Partners • Improve current services and realize opportunities for new services via access to technology and expertise that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive

  19. Status • Started at Purdue in 1995 • Started in Wisconsin in Fall 2000 • 7 teams - 70 students, 5 faculty advisors, 1 staff • Support from NSF, Corporation for National Service

  20. What makes EPICS work? • Close partnerships • Long-term commitment • Institutional support • The idea: making a difference • The people: students, community partners, faculty, staff

  21. Student view • Benefits of EPICS from a student’s point of view: • “The issues worked on have real importance” • “Real world customers/clients” • “Cross functional: work with business, marketing, other engineering majors, design majors” • “Project management: we don’t just answer to a professor, real people are counting on us” • “Build relationships and learn from other students and clients”

  22. CONTACT INFORMATION John Webster, Director Phone: 608-263-1574 e-mail: webster@engr.wisc.edu Web Site URL http://epics.engr.wisc.edu

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