Warfield would love to find this report, it has been missing for a long time. Maybe he gave it to someone, or maybe it is just lost among other papers. Apparently the document was missing from its folder when GMU first cataloged it in Year 2000, and the Finding Aid title includes the word "EMPTY" (AS NOTED IN THE VARIANT TITLE FIELD, ABOVE) The Rodman report was missing for years. We hunted and hunted for it many times. Now in year 2008 as I am comparing my home title list with the Finding Aid created by GMU Special Collections department, I find these titles, "Notes Germane To Rodman's Design Course For Spring 1982," [John N. Warfield] 1982 (Box 14 , Folder 19 ). "Scholars Design Course, Class Notes, Term Papers & Correspondence," [Rodman] 1982 (Box 26, Folder 9) "A Course in Generic Design," Teaching Materials [John N. Warfield ], 1985 (Box 14, Folder 1). Could it be one of these boxes contains the missing Goals Study, that it has been found by Fenwick librarians when they were cataloging Warfield's collection? I sure hope so, but I can't get to Virginia very easily now, to find out.

Warfield was very happy to be doing that Rodman course. The Rodman program was a special set of classes and seminars provided exclusively for top-level freshman and sophomore engineering students at the University of Virginia. Only about 30 or 40 students are admitted to the program each year, selected for academic excellence. Warfield had some excellent students when he taught this course, and feels he was able to get a lot of his basic design ideas across. He would love to find his Rodman report after all this time. This class was one of his earliest formal teaching efforts with his design theory, coming at the time he had left the electrical engineering faculty and become full time director of his new Center for Interactive Management at the University of Virginia. He said he had proposed this course for the Rodman scholars because he wanted them to understand design in 1st or 2nd year of college, at a sophomore level, so that when they reached higher levels in the upper classes they would have background to prod faculty to teach this type of thinking, rather than the computational and mechanistic design courses then in vogue. In 1984 And 1985 his paper "A course in generic design for engineers" was a close description of the ideas he put to use in the Rodman course.