This Gateway Project has explored the feasibility of a virtual campus concept in which engineering schools share their expertise and resources in engineering design and manufacturing. This joint venture between Cooper Union, University of Pennsylvania, New Jersey Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University also aims to enhance students’ skills in communications and human relations. Phase I required each university team to produce a conceptual design for the feeding device following a set of common design criteria established at the first meeting in U Penn in October 1995. After an open forum critique of the four conceptual designs, Cooper Union’s design was chosen as the year’s Gateway design. The four student teams each undertook task modules during Phase II. These four prototype subsystems were presented and assembled in OSU in March 1996. A final design was presented at U Penn on May 12, 1996.