| Since Spring 2001, all materials costs for EPICS projects
have been paid for by the initial grant to launch EPICS at Penn State.
The non-profit organizations defining the EPICS design projects have not
provided any money for the EPICS project. The non-profit organizations
support the EPICS projects in a critical way with consulting time to the
engineering teams, to ensure the EPICS project result meets the needs of
the organization. Cost per EPICS project, to date, has been approximately
$1,000, which provides the engineering team a budget of $600 for materials,
as well as support for use of prototyping facilities at Penn State, such
as the Learning Factory.
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| The initial grant money to underwrite EPICS projects is
not an unlimited source of funds, and we will soon need to shift
to other funding sources for EPICS underwriting. |
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Purdue's EPICS program has a solid corporate and community sponsorship of projects. Corporations can provide support in two ways:
- donations of hardware, software and/or unrestricted funds
to support the overall EPICS Program, labs and facilities used EPICS teams,
and individual EPICS teams.
- providing employees that serve as industry-based advisors
for EPICS teams. These employees can be engineers, specialists in environmental
law and regulations, or technical managers. Thus, these corporations have
essentially adopted the EPICS teams that their employees are advising.
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