The students in ENGR 271 Roman Structures, Engineering & Society are headed to Rome! We began our acclimation and knowledge building over the summer with readings, online discussions, and research-curiosity-projects! A key text that we have built a Roman engineering foundation upon is Bill Addis’s “Building: 3000 Years of Design Engineering and Construction”. Over the fall semester our Roman engineers have been meeting in small groups to start structural analysis on seminal structures; we have had a survival Italian language mini-course; and we have started our class discovery on the intersection of engineering and society. Our hard working, curious students (and instructor) are ready to go! A presto, Rome!