Before my summer experience with the ASSIST Center at NCSU, the Engineering Design Process was something that I knew about and vaguely understood. I thought it was a glorified scientific process and didn’t see the value in it. Throughout my externship, we were not only exposed to the process, but we were thrown into it, many times. There wasn’t a big production on the terms, like ask, imagine, etc; we just did it. By experiencing the process authentically, I fully “bought” into the process and realize the real-life implication of it.