In my visits to design colleges around the world, it is very difficult to find a school that is not practicing some form of interdisciplinary education. With varying degrees of commitment and success, it appears that everybody is doing it, or at least talking about it, as the many conferences on the subject demonstrate. Although industrial design has always stood at the intersection of business and engineering, the trend toward mixing and matching the design fields really took off about fifteen years ago, when design professionals began to recognize the value of collaborating with each other.