~ ~ This thesis describes SNEAKERS, a Concurrent Engineering
Demonstration
System. The purpose of the system is to act as an educational tool to
highlight the importance of the Concurrent Engineering (CE) methodology as a
part of modern design philosophy. The specific goals of this project are
detailed in Section 
. CE itself is discussed in Section .
The last two sections discuss the software developed for this thesis, and
the organization of the rest of the thesis, respectively.