EPICS is a social entrepreneurship program, founded at Purdue University in 1995 and now operating in 15 U.S. universities,  that helps students address real-world engineering problems while they are still in school. EPICS teams design, build, and deploy systems for community organizations that lack funding for engineering services. The USAID Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology (BUILD-IT) Alliance is bringing EPICS to partner institutions in Vietnam, and is presently conducting introductory workshops to socialize the model at universities throughout the country. Once fully underway, EPICS will enable partner universities to collaborate with students and faculty at Arizona State University to address some of Vietnam’s pressing community needs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. So what? The EPICS program provides students the opportunity to gain experience through project-based learning and collaboration with U.S. counterparts, helping produce graduates who can lead inclusive, technology-based growth in Vietnam, a core  BUILD-IT goal.