When Mechanical Engineering Design lecturer Michelle H. Rosen was considering how to adapt Engineering Sciences 51: âComputer-Aided Machine Designâ to a remote format this fall, she knew her students would not be able to get the hands-on experience she typically builds her class around. Normally, students in the course work in a machine shop to build robots, which will play a game at the end of the semester. With students scattered around the globe, Rosen had to find a new way for students to apply their skills. âInstead of it being just to build a robot to play this game, we let the students actually pick what kind of problem they wanted to work on,â Rosen said. âWe have some students who are building a robot that will entertain your pets, we have students building a robot that will clean your phone, we have something that will open your window blinds.â