The Spatial Extent Monitoring of Coastal Sunny-day Flooding project from North Carolina State University (NC State) is well underway as part of the Environmental Competition by EPICS in IEEE, in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation (UEF). Six students...

By Amanda Weissman The ideal successful engineering professional should not only depend on their learned technical skills but should embody professional skills which cannot be taught in a classroom, only developed in the real world. EPICS in IEEE provides students...

EPICS in IEEE will give a plenary talk titled Introduction to EPICS in IEEE at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) on September 10th from 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM at Santa Clara University.  During this presentation, the audience will receive a brief...

By Amanda Weissman It’s one thing for engineers to implement a solution for a community, but it’s another thing to create a solution hand-in-hand with a community. The students from the IEEE CIS Student Branch of M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, understood this...

An experienced student’s perspective on Project DIANA, a project part of the EPICS in IEEE Environmental Competition.  There is only so much you can learn inside the four walls of a classroom. Take it from Maia Medeiros who holds a Masters Degree in Biological...

In Phoenix, Arizona, temperatures often soar to 100+ degrees in the summer — leaving many of the city’s homeless vulnerable to dehydration. To help, the Human Services Campus, a local organization that supports people struggling with homelessness, is distributing free...

Behind the Church of Christ of the Apostolic Faith in Columbus, Ohio, a robot tends to a small community garden. It moves across tracks mounted on two-by-fours that allow it to operate along three axes in The Charles Madison Nabrit Memorial Garden while diligently...

An update on Project DIANA, a student-run project under EPICS in IEEE. By Amanda Weissman Seven students of IEEE STEAM Club at Ohlone College have taken on the wide-scale goal of reducing harmful gasses to preserve both native and endangered species while improving...

By Stephanie Gillespie Industry professionals can play a critical role in the success of a service learning project. By sharing your experience in technical design, professionalism, client/stakeholder relations, and/or project management, you can mentor a...

EPICS in IEEE, thanks to the grant from the United Engineering Foundation (UEF), successfully launched the EPICS in IEEE Environmental Competition for University Students. This competition has inspired teams of students to collaborate and engineer solutions to address...