PROJECT: EPICS - HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TEAM
Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) is a national program in which teams of students design, build, and implement solutions to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations. I was a member of the Habitat for Humanity EPICS Team, which was working on two projects simultaneously.
The goal of the BioTown project was to design an energy efficient home that could be built with the limited funds available for a Habitat home. The finished design would be constructed in Reynolds, Indiana as a prototype and part of the “BioTown USA” initiative, which aims to show that an entire town can become energy self-sufficient using bio-renewable resources. The Disaster Relief project worked to create a home plan to be used by Habitat for Humanity International partners in Haiti in the wake of a natural disaster.
As the Public Relations Officer for our team, I was responsible for all communication with our project partners at Habitat for Humanity as well as all internal communication with the team and our advisors. My responsibilities also included updating and editing team documents, including the Semester Plan and Design Review Documentation. These documents were distributed to external reviewers and project partners prior to review meetings, during which the reviewers provide feedback about the project design.
During “Recruitment Week”, the EPICS program hosts an event to allow students to meet members of each team and learn more about their projects. The Marketing Officer for our team asked me to design some background posters for the event using the slogan “Want to Save the World?”. These posters were created to be compatible with Adobe InDesign so the copy could be easily updated and customized.
The goal of the BioTown project was to design an energy efficient home that could be built with the limited funds available for a Habitat home. The finished design would be constructed in Reynolds, Indiana as a prototype and part of the “BioTown USA” initiative, which aims to show that an entire town can become energy self-sufficient using bio-renewable resources. The Disaster Relief project worked to create a home plan to be used by Habitat for Humanity International partners in Haiti in the wake of a natural disaster.
As the Public Relations Officer for our team, I was responsible for all communication with our project partners at Habitat for Humanity as well as all internal communication with the team and our advisors. My responsibilities also included updating and editing team documents, including the Semester Plan and Design Review Documentation. These documents were distributed to external reviewers and project partners prior to review meetings, during which the reviewers provide feedback about the project design.
During “Recruitment Week”, the EPICS program hosts an event to allow students to meet members of each team and learn more about their projects. The Marketing Officer for our team asked me to design some background posters for the event using the slogan “Want to Save the World?”. These posters were created to be compatible with Adobe InDesign so the copy could be easily updated and customized.