Warfield submitted this ten page manuscript to ASEE Journal of Engineering Education in November 1984. This version, dated 1984, was a precursor of the better known 1985 paper, but was limited, with only 9 pages. The manuscript is a brief description of the author's Engineering Design course which he had taught in the early `80's at the University of Virginia. The article contains a photo of a recently constructed DEMOSOPHIA room at George Mason University, the same type of situation room which Warfield had designed and used as teaching and research facility while at University of Virginia. In the Fall Semester when this short paper was written, Warfield had moved to George Mason University to become the head of a new Institute of Information Technology where an improved and enlarged version of his DEMOSOPHIA design was constructed. The GMU Demosophia was located at 223 Thompson Hall on the Fairfax Campus. The term "Demosophia" (meaning "Wisdom of the People" in Greek) is a word coined by Dr. A. N. Christakis who has worked as Warfield's assistant both at University of Virginia and also at George Mason University, where Christakis was supervisor of Interactive Management Sessions from 1984 until his departure in 1988.
