I had the students design a sports arena roof. It was a model of a sports arena roof, but in structure, that’s where the real interesting structures occur: in real long spans like the Georgia Dome or something like this. But it was very open-ended. They had been working cooperatively all semester long. I was a little nervous as to what I was going to get, and we had our presentations, and I was sitting back there, and I was just on a high. It was so much imagination and creativity. Some of it was a little hokey, but so much energy they had put into that. It really was rewarding. And you know, the thing was the students didn’t really think they did that good of a job. But I’ve been teaching the class for twelve years, and I was amazed at the creativity and energy that I got out of that last project. It never would have happened with a traditional class.

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