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Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) – “EPICS is a consortium of universities across the country committed to and successfully practicing the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) model founded at Purdue University in 1995. Community service agencies are increasingly relying upon the delivery, coordination, accounting, and improvement of the services they provide. They need the help of people with strong technical backgrounds. Undergraduate students are currently facing a future in engineering in which they will need to have more than a solid technical background. They will be expected to work with people of many different backgrounds to identify and achieve goals. They need educational experiences that can help them develop these skills. The challenge is to bring these two groups together in a mutually beneficial way.”