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To fill this demand, colleges and universities provide the best training available so that, after graduation these engineers will provide significant input from the first day of work. We live in a time known as industry 4.0 or the 4th Industrial Revolution, where computer power rules and takes on greater tasks, freeing up time for the design engineer to design more and more complex designs.  \nSometimes, it is good to stop, and take a breath to review our practices and remind ourselves of things we may have forgotten. It is true that we can design complex mechanisms and systems, in times past many of these would not be possible. But can we learn or be reminded of good practice by taking a journey through some of the design methods from the past. This paper will travel back to the 2nd century BC and look at cutting edge water pump design and the importance of a good literature review. It will highlight a serious gap in knowledge when comparing full-time and part-time students in our modern age. Airship design will be reviewed, the R100, R38 and R101 to remind us of the need to cross check design calculations. Looking atthe beauty of Concorde design will remind us of the requirement in any design of good planning and regular meetings. This journey will finish by looking at the design process of the Boeing 777 commercial airliner, one of the first designs to use Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Manufacture (CAM) . The use of Design Build Teams (DBT) with crossdisciplinary experts who can reside anywhere in the world will be considered. The reviewed historical examples may at first glance appear happen-stance but are in fact linked, and demonstrate a continuing growth in the ability, knowledge, complexity, and techniques of engineering design.  \nThis step back in time will remind teachers of some basic principles when teaching design to future design engineers. Designs have become more complex in this modern age, but it would be incorrect to say that complex design did not exist in times past. Before the internet, aircraft were built, global communication systems existed, men went to the moon.  \nKeywords  \nDesign, Teams, Past, Teaching, Industry 4.0, 3D Modelling  \nIntroduction  \nThe importance of design cannot be over-estimated. It is a true and obvious statement that everything we use to-day, everything we have used in the past, and everything we are going to use in the future, a design engineer, or design team created it.  \nEffective use of design can bring financial benefits to a company. The British government was the first in the world to recognise the importance of design when it set up the Council of Industrial Design, which later became known as the Design Council. The United Kingdom (UK) has the largest design sector in Europe and the second largest in the world. The Design Council (2018), who are an independent charity and government advisor on design make clear the importance of design and designers. Design contributed £71.7 billion to the UK economy during 2018. For every £100 a business spent on design, their turnover increased by £225 (Design Council, 2018) . The design economy is adding jobs at more than three times the national average. During 2014, 1.6 million people were employed across the design economy, that is 5% of the workforce in the UK (Design Council, 2018) .  \nFor over 50 years, Moor’s law has been found true. The number of transistors that can be manufactured on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every 18 months (Swan, 2020) . 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