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Hands-on learning
Turn embedded systems concepts into working hardware through technical projects and hands-on debugging.
About ES@P
West Lafayette · IndianaStudent organization / embedded systems
Build thewhole system
Embedded Systems @ Purdue is a student organization built around learning by doing: hardware, firmware, controls, and systems engineering coming together in projects that actually have to work.
Community
100+ members
Focus
Build + learn
01 / Mission
Learn by building
ES@P makes embedded engineering tangible: design it, wire it, flash it, debug it, and understand why it works.
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Engineering community
Work alongside students who care about hardware, firmware, systems, and the craft of making them work together.
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Professional growth
Build technical depth while meeting alumni, industry engineers, and researchers.
02 / What we do
Build it with a team
Learn a system, build a system, explain a system, then help someone else do the same. That's the whole club.
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Technical workshops
Microcontrollers, RTOS, debugging, PCB design, and the tools we actually use to build embedded systems.
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Project teams
Build complete systems across robotics, sensing, controls, and custom hardware.
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Speaker events
Learn from engineers and technical leaders working across embedded systems and adjacent industries.
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Competitions
Test systems under tight constraints through national events, hackathons, and internal engineering challenges.
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Mentorship
Get technical advice, project guidance, and career context from experienced members and mentors.
03 / Why join
Your projects are your résumé
Get better by shipping
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Build a portfolio of embedded projects that proves you can ship hardware.
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Your skills will transfer straight into engineering teams and research labs.
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Find collaborators who care about hardware and low-level software as much as you do.
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Get access to internal opportunities, alumni connections, and a stronger network.
04 / Team
The people
behind the systems
Students keeping ES@P organized, technically ambitious, and actually shipping hardware.
Executive Board
5 executives / 2026
Committees & Project Managers
Marketing Committee
Reid Cahalan
T-02
Photography Committee
Madhura Kawar
T-03
Outreach Committee
Anay Patel
T-04
Outreach Committee
Sarvesh Iyer
T-05
Events Committee
Vlad Bondar
T-06
Finance Committee
Srujhan Kandula
T-07
PM • PAWS
Aarav Jain
T-08
PM • Carbon Sink
Elias Braun
T-09
PM • CAISSA
Abhiraj Singh Jaswal
T-10
PM • CAISSA
Aadithya Vasudevan
T-11
PM • CAISSA
Outreach Committee
Ishika Pandurangam
T-12
PM • WALL-E
Thai Tran
T-13
PM • SlayterHiL
Evin Lodder
T-14
PM • IRLTSPICE
Parker Hitchcock
T-15
PM • IRLTSPICE
Zachary DeNeve
T-16
PM • IRLTSPICE
Clayton Hughes
T-17
PM • IRLTSPICE
Craig Eagleburger
T-18
PM • IRLTSPICE
Micah Samuel
T-19
PM • IntelliThings
Yao Yang
T-20
PM • IntelliThings
Rakshita Gupta
T-21
PM • BoilerSLAM
Matthew Shams
T-22
PM • ModularMIDI
Bosco Lee
T-23
PM • BB-8
Patton Lee
T-24
PM • Field Vision
William Ramsey
T-25
PM • Field Vision
Outreach Committee
Arvindh Krishna
T-26
PM • TARS
Preston Mo
T-27
PM • TARS
Ekansh Agrawal
T-28
05 / Get involved
Come build something that has to work
Project teams typically recruit at the start of each semester. Workshops and events are announced through Discord and the club mailing list.
Contact channel
embedded@purdue.edu