"…what resulted from this [project] is a list of research design projects that the students have done at the senior level and at the sophomore level…." Engineering students were given design tasks for such items as dog kennels, cleanup sites for underground water that had become contaminated, vineyard compost facilities, and elephant garlic. Engineers worked with students in other fields: "…they didn’t know anything about the cultural practices so working with an agronomy student would help, and then also economics plays such a big part, and so I was wanted to get an Agricultural Economics student involved with our team." Seniors gained supervisory experience working with the sophomores. Sophomores were encouraged to use AutoCAD; a skill taught the freshman year but often not applied until the senior year. Students worked in hands-on laboratories, where "…they actually design, build, test, and retest, even at the sophomore level…." Students submitted regular memos and progress reports to the instructor.