Solving many of today’s technological and social challenges will require interdisciplinary thought and action1-5, and the growth of interdisciplinary engineering programs6 suggests that the field is acknowledging its role in preparing students to tackle complex problems and develop innovations that will advance quality of life, economic growth, and national security. Efforts to enhance students’ interdisciplinary knowledge and skills include the development of interdisciplinary design courses through the NSF-funded SUCCEED Coalition and ABET’s later accreditation mandate for undergraduate programs to prepare new engineers to work on multidisciplinary teams7. Borrego, Froyd and Hall observed that the high level of awareness among engineering department chairs of interdisciplinary capstone design projects was “an obvious response to ABET EC2000 criteria”8 (p. 197).