The purpose of the EPICS in IEEE program is
to further incorporate EPICS into IEEE worldwide, by empowering student
branches and IEEE GOLD groups to work with high school students on EPICS
community service-related engineering projects, and by
institutionalizing the program within IEEE. Through this worldwide
expansion, Educational Activities will build a mechanism for sustaining
and disseminating the EPICS model to other sections.
The desired outcomes of EPICS in IEEE include:
The desired outcomes of EPICS in IEEE include:
- The establishment of a relationship between the student branches in participating sections, a local high school (or schools), and charitable, communal or humanitarian organizations in each venue. The relationship will focus on development, by university and high school student teams, of devices and systems for the benefit of the target audiences of the communal organizations.
- The development of training workshops to train local section champions to establish an EPICS-site in their IEEE sections using local volunteers and resources. These section champions, and the volunteers they train, will be empowered to disseminate the model further, locally and to other sections.
- increase high school student interest in pursuing an engineering-related career path;
- leverage the EPICS program demonstrated ability to reach female and under-represented minority students, to increase IEEE recruitment in these demographics.