The Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Elite Pitch Competition in spring 2020 featured winning teams of undergraduate students in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University who are solving community challenges related to the environment, aging, public health and clean water access. Graphic by Rhonda Hitchcock-Mast/ASU
When communities and engineers work together, everyone benefits. That’s the purpose behind the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, better known as EPICS, in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.
The program has grown rapidly in the past year — from around 180 students in spring 2019 to approximately 325 students participating a year later — to help communities both near and far, concentrated and widespread.
Projects from the top teams in the 2019-20 cohort include solutions to challenges related to the environment, aging, public health and clean water access.