Integrating Design and Service-Learning within the Curriculum
Date: June 7-9, 2015
Where: University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
EPICS is a curricular
approach in which multi-disciplinary design teams address needs within local
and global communities. EPICS was created at Purdue University and has been
adopted at more than 20 universities and colleges, engaging students from their
first-year through senior year and even capstone design.
The workshop will
provide information, tools, and resources needed to create an EPICS
course and will be facilitated by the directors of EPICS with experience
from more than 50 faculty workshops on service-learning and design. Topics
include course/curriculum, capstone courses, entrepreneurship, partnerships,
institutional support, and assessment, evaluation. The workshop will actively
engage participants to learn the principles and include presentations, discussions
and individual reflections so that participants can develop a customized plan
that can be applied to their own institution.
Who should
attend? Current and future faculty and instructors and partners interested
in:
- Design
Learning
- Human-Centered
Design
- Multidisciplinary
Teaming and Leadership
- Service-Learning
and Community Engagement (local, national or global)
- Development
of Professional Skills
- Student
Engagement and Retention
- Diversity
- Sustaining
Design Projects Across Multiple Semesters or Years
- Initiating
and Sustaining Curricular Change
- Assessing
Multidisciplinary Design Teams
So whether you
are interested in becoming part of the EPICS university consortium, or want to
learn how you can integrate design and community engagement in your curriculum,
the EPICS Workshop will guide you in reflecting how EPICS principles apply to
your institution and curriculum to improve student learning and engagement.
Cost: Registration is required and the cost is $75 CAD.
Registration cost covers the morning and afternoon coffee breaks as well as
lunch on both workshop days.
Participants are
expected to cover their travel and lodging costs. Group participants should
book their accommodation online, using this secure website.
Guests are also
welcome to contact the UBC Reservations Office at (Toll-Free) 1 888 822 1030 to
make a reservation. Please tell the staff that you are an EPICS Workshop participant.
This workshop is supported by the endowment from the National Academy of
Engineering’s Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and
Technology Education.
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Maeve Drummond
EPICS University Coordinator
Purdue University
office (765) 494-3750
cell (765) 491-6428
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