Transcript ECEDHA - Grand Challenge Scholars

EPICS: Learning Design
Through Service-Learning
William Oakes, P.E.
Director
www.purdue.edu/epics
Motivation: The EPICS Partnership
(Engineering) students need more than
technical knowledge to succeed:
teamwork, communication,
customer-awareness,
project management,
leadership, ethics,
professionalism
Community-service and
education organizations need
access to technical expertise that
is normally prohibitively expensive:
improved, enhanced, and new services
Example EPICS Projects
The Environment
Education & Outreach
Access and Abilities
Human Services
EPICS Projects: Education & Outreach
 Partnerships with local K12 schools
 K-12 outreach projects
 Technology & girls
 Technology-assisted job
training
 Projects with local museums:
 Hands-on science exhibits
 Power systems
 Virtual reality history tour
 Museum climate monitoring
system
 Interactive zoo designs
Affordable designs
EPICS Projects: Human Services
 Habitat for Humanity
Sustainable designs for new
homes
Energy analyses
Web-based home selection
guide
Construction tools
 Information management for
homelessness prevention
IT support for not-for-profits
 Alternative Energy
Underserved populations
EPICS Projects: Access & Abilities
 Campus
Accessibility
 Remote note taking
 Moveable bookshelf
 Campus
transportation
 Communication
Devices
 Apps for
communcation
 Complex play environments
for young children with physical
disabilities
 Multimedia systems to
stimulate speech in
developmentally delayed
children
EPICS Projects: Environmental
 Constructed Wetland
Demonstration of
technology
Educational facility
 Campus Sustainability
 Water Conservation
 Recycling (New Zealand)
Processing waste glass
into sand for use in
construction materials
Conversion of waste
cooking oil to bio-diesel as
an alternative fuel
EPICS Decouples Timescales
Student Learning
Student Learning
Semester/Quarter
Semester/Quarter
Project
Semester/Quarter
Project
Community Receives Long-Term Support They Need
EPICS Characteristics
 Long term projects:
Long-term partnerships with community organizations
no charge to partners
Multi-semester design experience:
academic credit
Team-based design experience
multidisciplinary (Purdue:70+ majors)
Vertically-integrated teams:
first-year to fourth year
 Open-ended design:
define-design-build-test-deploy-support
EPICS teams can tackle projects of
significant size, scope, and impact
“High Schools Improving Lives with Engineering Projects in Community Service-Learning”
Design
Explore
Grow
Prepare
Succeed
Serve
http://epics-high.ecn.purdue.edu/
Impact: Changing the Equation
EPICS High is attracting underrepresented populations.
National Average
EPICS High
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Female Students
Underrepresented
Students
EPICS Programs
EPICS Curriculum Provides
Service- Design
Project
Learning Education Management
Community
Partnerships
Disciplinary
Knowledge
from
Departments
Projects and
Problems
from Local
Community
Institutional
Curriculum
and Culture
EPICS Programs
The EPICS Consortium
 EPICS programs at
 21 universities
 47 High schools in seven states
 Staff to support university and high school expansion
www.purdue.edu/epics