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Given shrinking university budgets, increased enrollments and limited teaching space, a push has been made to develop online courses at the undergraduate level which will allow for large class sections and increase access, both on-campus and remotely. The development of online courses in engineering at the undergraduate level is new at the University of Florida. We discuss the process of developing an online course in engineering economy. We specifically address how to allow for students to interact in groups in an online environment through projects. We also discuss the ability to modularize delivery in order to appeal to different majors in the course, which may require slightly different content. The course, currently under development, is to be delivered in the Summer of 2010.