TIDEE: the first year of a design engineering educational partnership for Washington State

TIDEE (Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education) is an NSF sponsored partnership of four year universities and community colleges in the state of Washington. TIDEE's focus is to develop a unified vision of design competencies required for first and second year university students. This competency based design education will be shared by all of the community colleges and four year universities in the state of Washington. The competencies have been developed through workshops and then assigned to categories and levels of achievement.