Welcome to EPICS Engineering Projects in Community Service

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Welcome to EPICSEngineering Projects in
Community Service
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• GREETINGS! I am pleased to see that we are
  different.  May we togetherbecome greater than
  the sumof both of us.                    
• Mr. Spock, Star Trek

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EPICS Orientation

• What is EPICS?
• What is the purpose of education?
• Who are we?
• Who am I?
• How are we related?
• How can we help each other?
• What is our purpose?

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What is EPICS?

• Student teams solving challenging, real-world
  problems for nonprofits
• Started at Purdue in 1995
• NSF and CNS sponsored national dissemination
• Started at UW-Madison in Fall 2000
• Bradley adopts information systems / business
  model approach (EPICS IS)

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Purpose of Education

• This is the true joy in life, the being used for
  a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one
  the being thoroughly worn out before you are
  thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of
  nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod
  of ailments and grievances complaining that the
  world will not devote itself to making you
  happy.
• George Bernard Shaw

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Purpose of Education

• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste the
  experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly
  and without fear for newer and richer
  experience.
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  Eleanor Roosevelt
• Education is a social process ... Education is
  growth ... Education is not a preparation for
  life education is life itself.
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  John Dewey

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Purpose of Education

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
•  The important thing is to not stop questioning
  
  
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  Albert Einstein
• It should be our objective to train minds as
  tools that can be used for a lifetime, inquiring
  minds, curious minds, seeking, constantly
  refueling
• their ideas and information.
•  
  Eleanor Roosevelt

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Purpose of Education

• I never let my schooling interfere with my
  education.
• Mark
  Twain
• Education is an admirable thing, but nothing
  that is worth knowing can be taught.
• Oscar
  Wilde

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Purpose of Education

• At one level, society educates to pass on its
  knowledge and values, in order to preserve and
  perpetuate what it has learned. At the highest
  level,
• society educates to pass on its wisdom in the
  hopes that future generations will avoid making
  the same mistakes.
• Rafe
  Montello
• In much wisdom is much grief and he that
  increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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  Ecclesiastes 118

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Some key words and phrases

• Relationship Building and Community
• Diversity
• Haves and Have Nots
• Power, Wealth and Privilege
• Needs and needs satisfaction
• Complexity and ambiguity
• Competition and Collaboration
• Realization of human potential

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Technical Competence
Professional Development versus Human Development
Personal Growth
Citizenship
Professional Practice
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EPICS Organizational Structure
Interdisciplinary Student Project Teams
EPICS Course Website
Planning Committee
Community Partners Advisory Board
Industry Partners Advisory Board
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Enrollment Distribution by MajorFall 2003
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Course Format

• Large Group Meetings
• Wednesdays 430 600 pm
• Project Team Meetings
• Wednesdays 600 700 pm
• Functional Group Meetings
• Mondays 430 600 pm

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Large Group Schedule

• Week 3 Creativity/group dynamics
• Week 4 Stress management/Affluenza video
• Week 5 Poverty simulation
• Week 6 Ethics, Capitalism, and Spirituality
• Week 9 Competition, Ego and Status
• Week 10 Community Issues theme
• Week 11 Journeys in Life
• Week 12 Performance Art as Pedagogy
• Ongoing check in and expectation clarification

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Who am I?

• 52 years old, divorced, white male
• Associate Professor in Mat. Sci Eng
• Catholic
• Heterosexual
• Working class parents
• Canadian
• Liberal
• INFP Myers-Briggs
• Public speaking phobia

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Some more Who am I?

• Graduated high school in 1968
• Quit university at start of sophomore year
• PhD in Metallurgical Engineering in 1985
• 10 years in metal casting research
• Yoga, Tai Chi, Meditation
• Recently started drawing and painting
• Strongly opposed to war in Iraq
• Future career in counseling psychology?

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But who am I really?

• What are my beliefs and values and what drives
  me?
• Life is a struggle involving the search for
  authenticity
• Patience and perseverance
• Truth, goodness and beauty
• Faith, commitment, creativity and love

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Some thoughts on learning
Reality
Wisdom Awareness
Purpose
Information Processing
Knowledge
Behavior
Motivation
Information
Experience

• Pleasure-pain
• Reward-punishment
• Fear-greed
• Realization of human potential

Data
Context / Culture
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Some models to help us answer the deeper
questions?

• Scholtes SIPOC Model
• Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
• Kolbs Experiential Learning Model
• Gardners Multiple Intelligences
• Myers-Briggs (Chris Lupton Week 2)
• Joharis Window
• Bugentals Existential-Analytic Model of Being

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SIPOC Model
PURPOSE
S
I
P
O
C
Suppliers
Input
Process
Output
Customers

• Students, clients, instructors and others
• Expertise within EPICS system

• Departments in various UW-Madison Schools and
  Colleges

• Experiential learning with focus on interpersonal
  and intrapersonal growth

• Websites, databases, graphics, marketing plans
• Better educated students

• Nonprofits
• Society
• Industry

What precedes us
What we do to add value
What follows us
FEEDBACK
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Maslows HierarchyofNeeds
Transcendence
Self-Actualization
growth or being needs
Cognitive needs to know and understand
Esteem needs (from self and others)
Belongingness and love needs
Safety needs security, order, and stability
deficiency needs
Physiological needs food, water and sex
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Kolbs Experiential Learning Model
Concrete Experience
Grasping via APPREHENSION
Accommodative Knowledge
Divergent Knowledge
Reflective Observation
Active Experimentation
Transformation via EXTENSION
Transformation via INTENSION
Assimilative Knowledge
Convergent Knowledge
Grasping via COMPREHENSION
Abstract Conceptualization
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Gardners Theory of Multiple Intelligences

• Linguistic (word smart)
• Logical-Mathematical (number/reasoning smart)
• Spatial (picture smart)
• Bodily-Kinesthetic (body smart)
• Musical (music smart)
• Interpersonal (people smart)
• Intrapersonal (self smart)
• Naturalistic (nature smart)

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Joharis Window

• Understanding the behavior, feelings and
  motivation of self and others

Known to self
Not known to self
Known to others
BLIND
OPEN
Not known to others
UNKNOWN
HIDDEN
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Closing thoughts about life

• "As the light changed from red to green to yellow
  and back to red again, I sat there thinking about
  life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking
  and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that
  way."  (Jack Handey)
• "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your
  actions. All life is an experiment."  (Ralph
  Waldo Emerson)
• "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but
  rather that it shall ever have a
  beginning."  (John Henry Cardinal Newman)

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One more quote

• "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who
  points out how the strong man stumbled, or where
  the doer of deeds could have done better.  The
  credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
  arena whose face is marred by the dust and sweat
  and blood who strives valiantly who errs and
  comes short again and again who knows the great
  enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends
  himself in a worthy course who at the best,
  knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
  and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails
  while daring greatly so that his place shall
  never be with those cold and timid souls who know
  neither victory or defeat."
• Theodore Roosevelt

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A final quote

• "I want relations which are not purely personal,
  based on purely personal qualities but relations
  based upon some unanimous accord in truth or
  belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than
• of personality.
• I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and
  impersonal .... trying to create a new life, a
  new common life, a new complete tree of life from
  the roots that are within us."
• DH Lawrence