EPICS Faculty Training workshop

  • Date:February 28th, 2023  
    08:30 am
     -  March 1st, 2023  
    11:30 am

Expected Outcomes:  This workshop will focus on developing new faculty, who have not yet been trained in the EPICS methodology, to lead EPICS classes at their universities. The workshop, will prepare new faculty to lead EPICS’ student teams to design, build, and deploy systems to solve STEM based problems for their communities. The workshop training agenda covers project feasibility, planning, design and build, implement and install, and access to the EPICS curriculum.

Agenda
Day 1 Tue, Feb 28th, 2023 (Vietnam time)
8:30 – 8:45 am Check-in
Welcome and Workshop Introduction
8:45 – 10:15 am Overview of EPICS
Program overview, project examples and difference between EPICS and Project Based Learning
10:15 – 10:30 am Coffee and Tea Break
10:30 – 11:30am EPICS Challenge & Rapid Prototyping
Faculty will use rapid prototype to learn and experiment with human-centered EPICS design
Design process breakouts and debrief

Faculty will break out into groups to dive into specific areas of the EPICS design process. Each group will then report back findings to overall group. Wrap up and debrief about next steps
Day 2 Wed, Mar 1st, 2023 (Vietnam time)
8:30 – 8:40 am Welcome and Workshop Day 1 review
8:45 – 9:45 am Workshop on Modules 1 & 2
Faculty will learn about Project Identification and Specification Development through the development of module skills and deliverables. The deliverables and techniques for these modules will be illustrated with case studies and examples.
9:45 – 10:30 pm Workshop on Module 3
Faculty will learn about Conceptual Design through the development of module skills and deliverables. The deliverables and techniques for these modules will be illustrated with case studies and examples.
Workshop on Modules 4

Faculty will learn about Detailed Design through the development of module skills and deliverables. The deliverables and techniques for these modules will be illustrated with case studies and examples.
10:30 – 10:45 pm Coffee and Tea Break
10:45 – 11:30 pm Workshop on Module 5 & 6
Faculty will learn about Delivery and Project Retirement through the development of module skills and deliverables. The deliverables and techniques for these modules will be illustrated with case studies and examples.