EPCS 102 - EPICS: Multidisciplinary Team Service Learning Projects II
PREREQUISITES: EPCS 101 - Multidisciplinary Team Service Learning Projects I
PROGRAM: Service Learning
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 2
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 1
LAB HOURS MIN: 4
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Summer, 2012
EPICS is a service-learning design course in which teams of students from across campus work together on long-term projects that benefit the community. Project work centers around the engineering/technology/computing needs of a community partner, but interdisciplinary team interaction is an integral element for project success. Students may participate in EPICS multiple semesters and participation for multiple consecutive semesters on a project team is encouraged. Teams are composed of first year and second year students.
Most EPICS projects last at least one-year, though partnership with the community organization continues for several years. Projects are intended to solve real problems, are defined in partnership with their community partners, and span the complete design process cycle [problem identification - specification development - conceptual design - detailed design - production - service/maintenance - retirement].
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Discipline Knowledge: ability to apply material from their discipline to the design of community based projects.
- Design Process: an understanding of design as a start-to-finish process.
- Lifelong Learning: ability to identify and acquire new knowledge as a part of the problem solving/design process.
- Customer Awareness: an awareness of the customer.
- Teamwork: an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams and an appreciation for the contributions from individuals from multiple disciplines.
- Communication: an ability to communicate effectively with widely-varying backgrounds.
- Ethics: an awareness of professional ethics and responsibility.
- Social Context: an appreciation of the role that their discipline can play in social contexts.
- Understand how to set up a laboratory experiment, gather and analyze data, and present the results in a proper format.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include - In EPICS, you will learn and experience:
Multidisciplinary Design:
Learn how to be better designers, gain design knowledge and skills;
Learn how to apply disciplinary knowledge to real and possibly ill-defined problems;
Learn how to identify and acquire new knowledge;
Learn to collaborate with people from other disciplines and develop an appreciation for cross-disciplinary contributions in design.
Professional Preparation:
Develop the broad set of skills needed to be successful in the changing global workplace and world:
Service-Learning:
Provide significant service to the community while learning; gain an understanding of the role that engineering (and their discipline) can play in society and the broader issues related to the needs we are addressing.
You will develop the skills in the following Skill Set Areas:
- Design
- Disciplinary and cross-disciplinary thinking
- Teamwork/Leadership
- Oral communication
- Written communication
- Critical thinking
- Professional ethics
- Social context
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