Engineering
Projects in Community Service (EPICS)
EPICS is a unique program at Purdue University in which
teams of undergraduate students design, build, and
implement real systems to solve engineering-based problems
for local community service and education organizations.
There are over 40 EPICS teams that work each semester on
different projects which, to date, have completed over 150
projects for these community service and educational
organizations.
The students enrolled in the Boiler Green Initiative
division of EPICS are working on three projects:
- Feasibility of implementing a Pay-As-You-Throw Project in
West Lafayette
- Hillel House environmentally friendly renovation project
which focuses on winterization, passive solar and a rain
garden
- Wind turbine siting project on Purdue University's campus
For more information go to
http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/bgi/