ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the potential of kinds of Interdisciplinary courses, highlighting a few examples of positive learning outcomes through academic case studies. These courses have the potential to prepare students for meaningful cross-disciplinary design collaborations in the working world and can prove to be pivotal in student's educational careers. Given the richness of the interdisciplinary experience, it is hopeful that an increasing number of schools will offer interdisciplinary courses in the future. Through cross-disciplinary and industry partnerships, students will learn there is tremendous potential in collaborative design to pursue forward-thinking projects with real-world applicability. The chapter identifies some of the primary concerns that pervade contemporary architecture and engineering curricula with the goal of identifying opportunities to enhance student learning. If one considers architecture and structural engineering, it is possible to make the broad generalization that the difference between engineering pedagogy and architecture pedagogy is one of depth versus breadth.
