EPICS team designs, creates and donates bronze marker to honor Civil War hero

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Thanks to a group of Purdue University engineering students, Lafayette’s Greenbush Cemetery has a new historical marker that pays tribute to a local Civil War colonel.

The Engineering Projects in Community Service MSE (materials engineering) Bronze Team, composed of students from various majors, is committed to creating plaques for historical sites and memorials. In its most recent project, the group partnered with community leaders to design and create a plaque to honor Col. William Carroll, commander of the 10th Indiana Infantry and highest-ranked Tippecanoe County officer. He was killed in 1863 at the Battle of Chickamauga in Tennessee.

Rachel Hruby, who graduated in May with her bachelor’s degree in materials engineering, led two groups of students to complete the plaque, which was dedicated at Greenbush Cemetery on April 27.

EPICS is a program in which teams of undergraduates design, build and deploy real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations. 

More information can be read on the Purdue University College of Engineering website.

Media contact: Brian Huchel, bhuchel@purdue.edu