The College of Engineering redesigned the freshman curriculum into a multidisciplinary, integrated series of learning experiences in 1999 and named it the Engage Program. The program is an engineering-fundamentals curriculum built on teamwork in project-oriented, hands-on activities in graphics, statics, computer programming, and dynamics. The program was named the Jerry E. Stoneking Engage Engineering Fundamentals Program in 2002. In the first five years of its existence, the program increased the freshman engineering retention rate by 15 percent, and the graduation rates of students who had gone through the Engage experience increased by 10 percent to 15 percent.