semester. Most commonly, teams have multipleprojects, focused either around a common community partner or a common theme. For example,one team conducts multiple projects with the local branch of Habitat for Humanity, whereasanother team develops web-based database systems for a variety of different communitypartners. Each team has a historical average of 15 students and multiple projects, typically withfour to five students per project. Each team stands as an independent lab division, but with acommon curriculum, syllabus, and assessment. As a student-centered, project-based course,instead of serving as a lecturer, the instructors in each lab division serve as a coach or guide andare thus labeled as ‘advisors’.Early in the formation of EPICS, it