EPICS Elite Pitch Competition expands impact of student projects

The Engineering Projects in Community Service program, better known as EPICS, in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University provides students the knowledge, funding and opportunity to work on real projects with actual clients who are facing...

Hearing a call for safety innovation

Vietnamese engineering students tackle problem of safety for deaf drivers in ASU-supported EPICS program A car collided with an ambulance on the busy streets of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Despite the blaring sirens, the driver hadn’t heard the frantic ambulance...

Supporting students in the Google age

Last fall Google turned 20. Today’s ubiquitous search engine is now older than the majority of Arizona State University’s freshman class — many of whom have never experienced a Google-less world. “Technology has changed everything,” said Israel Zaldivar, a...

ASU entrepreneurs win more than $300,000 to nurture ventures

Demo Days awards investment cash, services to promising projects by students, faculty, alumni and community members Sometimes it takes only a little bit of money to nurture big dreams. Nearly 100 teams of entrepreneurs pitched their projects during Demo Days last...