• Assigned projects/assignments where students knew beforehand that their projects would be shown publicly.
• Structured certain classes as "on the job" learning to produce professional, presentable work.
• Assigned conference-poster-type or exhibit-type assignments that would be on public display.
• Set up competition-type projects to be carried out in public venue.
• Slowly pushed for more open, more public senior design presentations.

The actions produced the following results.

• Improvement in quality of students' works when they knew beforehand that their works would be on public display.
• Students were more enthusiastic when the class was not structured as all book learning.
• Students had exposure to different form of presentations.
• More time and effort were willingly spent on assignments. As many as 3 or 4 iterations were made for a given design assignment.
• Students appeared to enjoy showing off their work publicly.
• First ever, open to public, booth-type display, Senior Design Day jointly staged by two departments at SIIT.

What I had planned was to work quietly toward having the Senior Design Day turned into an annual, institute-wide event. Such events would allow younger students opportunity to experience engineering works more intimately. It would also serve as a promotional tool for the institute as well. As of now, the tradition of holding a Senior Design Day continues, at least, in the Mechanical Engineering Department at SIIT.

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