Iowa State University is a member of the Synthesis Coalition, funded by the National Science Foundation in the inaugural year for coalitions. The other coalition partners are Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, Cornell, Hampton, Southem, Stanford, Tuskegee, and UC Berkeley. The Synthesis Coalition is creating a National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS). This will include a multimedia data base of engineering courseware modules which can be transported at network speeds for classroom delivery. In order for these lesson modules to be effectively delivered, appropriate classroom delivery systems are being designed, prototyped, and tested.