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Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship

EPICS Entrepreneurship InitiativeEdward J. Coyle, EEI Director (on leave)

Nancy I. Clement, Interim Director

EPICS High School ProgramJune 12, 2007

©N.Clement-Purdue University


EPICS – Engineering Projects In Community Service

EPICS Program

The Community

Needs, IdeasIdeas,

Products

E.J. Coyle, L.H. Jamieson, and H.G. Dietz, 1995


Basic Facts about EPICS:

• EPICS Engineering Projects in Community Service

• Interdisciplinary, Vertically-Integrated Teams• Each team functions as a design firm• Long-term, large-scale projects that benefit

the local community• Define-Design-Build-Test-Deliver-Support

Experience • More than 180 products delivered to the

community


Program Created in 1999

The success of the EPICS model at Purdue University resulted in the creation of the National EPICS Program.

Purdue serves as the National EPICS Headquarters. 15 Participating Universities


EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI)Launched in 2001

Spread the benefits of products developed by EPICS teams to all communities through commercialization.

Create opportunities students to learn about entrepreneurship and developing products.

Enable EPICS teams to identify, protect, develop and benefit from the intellectual property they created.

Develop and refine a model for social entrepreneurship that that all EPICS sites can use.


“Social entrepreneurship is about applying practical, innovative and sustainable

approaches to benefit society in general, with an emphasis on those who are marginalized and poor.” (Schwab)

The EEI Definition ofSocial Entrepreneurship


EEI Provides

• Brion St. Amour - Patent Attorney – lectures in the fall about Intellectual Property protection.

• Skill sessions:– patent searching provided by the Potter Library Faculty– market research provided by Krannert Library Faculty– digital presentations provided by the Undergraduate Library Faculty and

Digital Learning Collaborator

• I2P™ Competition – Product Feasibility – Purdue I2P Competition– National I2P Competition-On the Road

• Unique agreement with Purdue’s Office of Technology Commercialization– If an EPICS product is commercialized an income stream will go to the

project partner

Idea-to-Product® (I2P™) is a registered trademark of the University of Texas


I2P® Competition vs. Business Plan Competition

• I2P® is a product-feasibility competition. The products and services presented at the I2P® Competition are typically not ready for market introduction and are at too early a stage to detail all of the information necessary for a business plan.

• Business plan competitions are judged based on having a fully developed business model and extensive market knowledge, Idea to Product® places more value on the technology product itself.

• The focus of I2P® is early-stage technology commercialization (Imagine, Incubate, and some Demonstration), while business plan competitions focus more heavily on how to Promote and Sustain the product or business.

Retreived from http://www.ideatoproduct.org/int/about/AboutI2PIntl-WhatisI2P.cfm


Taking the competition “on the road”

• Fosters entrepreneurial spirit among National programs.• Creates links with entrepreneurs across the country• Provides potential donors with an opportunity to see

the students and their projects. • Identifies products with commercial potential• Creates an environment that fosters collaboration with

other universities and EPICS sites• Receives national attention for all the programs

– USA Today article www.usatoday.com


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2005 EPICS I2P Competition West Lafayette IN

2006 I2P Competition EPICS & Social Entrepreneurship San Jose CA

2007 I2P Competition EPICS & Social Entrepreneurship Princeton NJ

Mexico

China

India

Africa

Water


National I2P Competition for EPICS & Social Entrepreneurship

Butler University• “Language in Action”

Illinois Institute of Technology• “Zinda”

Pennsylvania State University• “Sustainable Windmill Company”

Purdue University• “iTel Explorer”• “LUKe”

San Jose State University• “Zero EMissions system”

University of California San Diego• “Universal Toy Adapter”

2007 Competition - Princeton University

SJSU - ZEM Zero EMissions system


2007 National I2P Participants• 16 Responded to the survey

– 15 Current students– 1 ’05 Graduate

• Gender– 11 Male– 5 Female

• Disciplines– 7 Engineering– 4 Management or Finance– 2 molecular Biochemistry & Biophysics– 1 Fine Arts– 1 computer Science– 1 Internal Affairs

• Year in School– 2 Freshman– 6 Juniors– 4 Seniors– 2 MBA– 1 Graduate


What else would you like us to know?

“ I found the competition to be very empowering and inspirational.”


EPICS-OTC Agreement: “ If Purdue generates revenue from the commercialization of the technology developed by the

EPICS teams, it will share all such revenue equally with the community partner.”


We are creating a network of social entrepreneurs


Papers – Presentations - Conferences

• “EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative”– Looking into the Future of Technology – Forum 2007

• “The Innovation Initiative for Social Entrepreneurship: Fostering Awareness of Local and Global Social Issues via Entrepreneurship Education”

– 2007 ASEE Annual Conference

• “A University-Collaboration that Creates an Innovative Model for Social Entrepreneurship”

− 2007 USASBE Conference

• “Creating an Innovation Continuum in the Engineering Curriculum: EPICS and the EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative”

− 2006 ASEE Annual Conference − 2006 ASEE Global Colloquium on Engineering Education

• “Improving Society”− 2006 AUTM Conference


2007 Purdue I2P Showcase Teams

2007 National I2P Showcase Teams

Happy Hollow 6th Grade Invention Class

Lafayette College “Engineers without Borders”

Luggage Four Kids MyliniaAmbient


National I2P Competition for EPICS & Social Entrepreneurship

Bedford North LawrenceHigh School

“Swallow Monitoring Device”

Butler University• “Language in

Action”San Jose State University

• “Walker with Emergency Lift”

• “Hybrid Human Powered Vehicle

Pennsylvania State University

• “Helping Hand”

Purdue University• “Sparklet Bracelet”

University of California San Diego

• “Diginurse”

2006 Competition - San Jose State University

Illinois Institute of Technology

“KlarAqua”

Purdue University“Mars Rover”

Bedford North Lawrence HS

“Swallow Monitoring Device”


2006 Bedford North Lawrence High School Students at I2P Competition


Showcase Teams

2006

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology“Test Water Cheap”

• University of California Berkeley & California College of the Arts

“SEGURO”


A Working Relationship Between a Young Inventor and the Bosch Tool Corporation2007 USPTO Technology Forum

Erin Eppard – Senior at Thunderbird High School,

Phoenix, AZ“Operator Injury Mitigation Using

Electronic Sensing and Mechanical Braking and Decoupling Devices in Handheld Circular Saws”

* Consider collaborations with science fairs – that is where Erin started on the road to success.


Students in Hardware Lab

Labs in the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.

Beili

Senior Electrical Engineering

Engku

Senior Electrical Engineering

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