Dhc-8 flight crew reported receiving an egpws 'terrain' alert departing ipt.

Attributes
ACN	1310038
Time
Date	201511
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	IPT.Airport
State Reference	PA
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Dash 8 Series Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 5050 Flight Crew Type 1300
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 45 Flight Crew Total 7500 Flight Crew Type 150
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Miss Distance	Horizontal 0 Vertical 600

Narrative:

Aircrew turned on course prior to reaching obstacle departure procedure (odp) altitude (non-intentional; was a miss-step in crew's departure brief). Egpws sounded a terrain alert; crew increased climb rate aggressively. Crew never received a 'pull-up' message during maneuver; just the 'terrain' alert.continued climb to a safe altitude; continued flight. Evaluated what happened; crew believes they put so much attention on single-engine out procedures they neglected the regular odp procedure.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: DHC-8 flight crew reported receiving an EGPWS 'Terrain' alert departing IPT.

Narrative: Aircrew turned on course prior to reaching Obstacle Departure Procedure (ODP) altitude (non-intentional; was a miss-step in crew's departure brief). EGPWS sounded a terrain alert; crew increased climb rate aggressively. Crew never received a 'Pull-up' message during maneuver; just the 'Terrain' alert.Continued climb to a safe altitude; continued flight. Evaluated what happened; crew believes they put so much attention on single-engine out procedures they neglected the regular ODP procedure.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.