The Mudd Design Workshops were initially conceived as a means to bring design professionals to HMC to talk about issues of interest to design educators, practitioners and researchers. Over the last decade, they have evolved to share a vision, a mission and a set of experiences.

The Vision
The Mudd Design Workshops seek to bring together 50 to 75 engineers, designers, researchers and educators to discuss issues that are important and relevant to both design education and engineering education.

The Mission
At each Mudd Design Workshop, participants identify and articulate four to six key intellectual and institutional issues, action items or goals that they believe warrant attention and commitment during the interval before the next succeeding workshop.

The Experience
Most of the time is spent in moderated, open discussion between all of the participants, though panelists also initiate panel discussions with brief position papers. Working sessions are developed as appropriate and always include a wrap-up session at which each workshop's specific mission is articulated. A softbound proceedings volume, (containing the workshop’s findings and recommendations, position papers and summaries of the panel discussions) are published, as will a special issue of The International Journal of Engineering Education containing its principal contents.

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