ABSTRACT An information system was designed for a non-profit organization located in an international, developing community for an undergraduate engineering course. The project team went through the process of identifying needs, generating concepts, selecting a design, and implementing and testing the final design. In this paper, similarities and differences of this project compared to other projects in the course are explored. The team was confronted with unique problems resulting from working with an international sponsor in a developing community. Communication and donations of varying types were important players in overcoming these obstacles. FRAME OF REFERENCE Interdisciplinary Design at the University of Arizona ENGR 498, Cross-disciplinary Engineering Design, is a two-semester course at the University of Arizona in which teams of students from different majors work with a project sponsor on a single design project. A highly abstracted version of the design process taught in ENGR 498 is shown i
