General Acronym Listing by Letter

E
EA Early Action
  other notes: a non-binding admissions option
 
EAC Engineering Accreditation Commission
  other notes: part of ABET
  Web address: http://www.abet.org/eac1.html
 
EAP Employee Assistance Program
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/News/Events/Various/iraq.html#2
 
EBC Employee Benefits Center
 
EBI Educational Benchmarking, Inc.
  other notes: WPI contracts with EBI to provide exit surveys
  Web address: http://www.ebi.com/
 
ECAC Eastern College Athletic Conference
  Web address: http://www.ecac.org/
 
ECE Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
  other notes: academic department
  Web address: http://www.ece.wpi.edu/
 
EDC Educational Development Council
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/CEDA/Funding/edc.html
 
EDGE Encouraging Development of Global Entrepreneurs
  other notes: A book authored by Christopher Pratt, Director of the CDC
 
EFC Expected Family Contribution
 
EIC Editor In Chief
  other notes: Written as EiC. Refers to the Editor in Chief of Tech News.
 
EIT Engineer In Training
 
EM Enrollment Management
  other notes: uncommon as an acronym
 
EMS Emergency Medical Services
  pronunciation: WPI EMS
  other notes: part of Campus Police
  Web address: http://users.wpi.edu/~wpiems/
 
EMSEP Excellence in Math Science and Engineering Program
  pronunciation: 'm-sep'
  other notes: summer program run by MAO
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Diversity/EMSEP/
 
EO Events Office
  other notes: uncommon as an acronym
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Events/
 
EOS Environmental and Occupational Safety Office
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Safety/
 
EPAF Electronic Personnel Action Forms
  other notes: implemented at the beginning of the 2009-2010 academic year
 
EPICS Engineering Projects In Community Services
  pronunciation: 'epics'
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/EPICS/
 
EPL Economics, Policy, and Law research group
  other notes: a WPI research group consisting of WPI faculty members as well as contributors from academia and industry
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/SSPS/Research/EPL/
 
EPP Emergency Preparedness Plan
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/Policies/EPP/
 
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
  other notes: used in reference to Banner
 
ERT Emergency Response Team
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/offices/policies/Emergency/
 
ESL English as a Second Language
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/ISS/esl.html
 
ETD Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  Web address: http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/
 
EUP Epsilon Upsilon Pi
  Greek letters: ΕΥΠ
  pronunciation: 'E-U-Pi'
  other notes: management honor society
 
EWB Engineers Without Borders
  Web address: https://users.wpi.edu/~ewbwpi/
 

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