Research indicates that the ability to visualize spatially is important to persistence in an engineering program, yet never explicitly taught at the pre-college or college levels.(Wai et al, 2009). Instead, spatial ability is usually developed through various life experiences, such as building with LEGOs, playing video games, playing certain sports, and other similar activities. Spatial visualization is a critical foundational skill that has been correlated to higher-level problem solving ability, and thus higher performance in other core courses like mathematics and chemistry (Sorby, 2009).