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EPICS Entrepreneurship Initiative
Edward J. Coyle, EEI Director (on leave)
Nancy I. Clement, Interim Director
EPICS High School Program
June 12, 2007
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EPICS – Engineering Projects In Community
Service
Needs, Ideas
Ideas, Products
EPICS Program
The Community
E.J. Coyle, L.H. Jamieson, and H.G. Dietz,
1995
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Basic Facts about EPICS:
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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
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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
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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.
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The EEI Definition of
Social Entrepreneurship
“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)
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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
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I2P® Competition vs. Business Plan Competition
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
China
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India
Mexico
Africa
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National I2P Competition
for EPICS & Social Entrepreneurship
2007 Competition - Princeton University
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”
SJSU - ZEM
Zero EMissions system
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2007 National I2P Participants
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16 Responded to the survey
– 15 Current students
– 1 ’05 Graduate
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Gender
– 11 Male
– 5 Female
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Disciplines
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7 Engineering
4 Management or Finance
2 molecular Biochemistry & Biophysics
1 Fine Arts
1 computer Science
1 Internal Affairs
Year in School
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2 Freshman
6 Juniors
4 Seniors
2 MBA
1 Graduate
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What else would you like us to know?
“ I found the competition to be very
empowering and inspirational.”
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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.”
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We are creating a network of social
entrepreneurs
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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
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2007 Purdue I2P
Showcase Teams
Happy Hollow 6th Grade Invention Class
2007 National I2P
Showcase Teams
Lafayette College “Engineers without Borders”
Luggage Four Kids
Mylinia
Ambient
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National I2P Competition
for EPICS & Social Entrepreneurship
2006 Competition - San Jose State University
Purdue University
“Mars Rover”
Bedford North Lawrence
High 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”
Bedford North Lawrence HS
“Swallow Monitoring Device”
University of California
San Diego
• “Diginurse”
Illinois Institute
of Technology
“KlarAqua”
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2006 Bedford North Lawrence
High School Students at I2P Competition
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Showcase Teams
2006
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Test Water Cheap”
• University of California Berkeley & California
College of the Arts
“SEGURO”
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A Working Relationship Between a Young Inventor and the
Bosch Tool Corporation
2007 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.
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Labs in the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.
Students in Hardware Lab
Beili
Engku
Senior Electrical Engineering
Senior Electrical Engineering