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The author, who holds a joint appointment between Technical Communication and Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, has been collaborating with Mechanical Engineering colleagues to establish a department-wide program with the goal of facilitating transfer of rhetorical instruction to engineering deliverables involving written and oral communication. To carry out this goal, the program incorporates a set of best practices informed by prior research in the areas of knowledge transfer, writing studies, and educational theory. These best practices and the theories informing them are described in this profile. In addition, the author offers preliminary lessons learned and presents implications for writing faculty interested in facilitating transfer through interdisciplinary initiatives.  \n“Interdisciplinarity…does not simply refer to partnerships that involve more than one discipline; instead, the term refers to a particular kind of intellectual engagement that has a transformative effect on the partners themselves.”(Paretti 76)  \nIntroduction  \nSince 2005, I have collaborated with the Mechanical Engineering (MENG) department, which boasts the largest and fastest growing major at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, to achieve the ultimate goal of improving communication skills among their students. Although all students on our campus are required to take our first-year composition sequence and a junior-level technical communication course, the MENG department wanted more customized instruction in their curriculum to help both undergraduate and graduate students achieve better outcomes on written and oral communication deliverables, such as proposals, progress reports, and design reports, as well as oral performances such as speeches, PowerPoint presentations, and poster presentations.  \nThe efforts began as a multidisciplinary partnership involving Technical Communication and MENG, and in keeping with Paretti’s description of such a partnership, reinforced “images of writing as a skill and writing instruction as a service”(77). Through guest lectures in MENG courses, I provided technical writing course “refreshers” to junior and senior design students. In meetings with MENG faculty, I offered suggestions for ways to evaluate communication competencies and shared copies of grading rubrics. The information I was providing to students and faculty was helpful and implemented to some extent, but it was still coming from an “outsider,” considered the language expert, remaining separate from the “insider” information presented to students by MENG faculty, the content experts.  \n[http://compositionforum.com/issue/26/new-mexico-tech.php](http://compositionforum.com/issue/26/new-mexico-tech.php)  \nCF 26: “Integrating Communication into Engineering Curricula” by Julie Dyke Ford Page 2 of 16  \nParetti distinguishes between content and language experts in her 2011 article “Interdisciplinarity as a Lens for Theorizing Language/Content Partnerships.” As Paretti discusses, an interdisciplinary, rather than a multidisciplinary, framework combining both areas of expertise is ideal for rhetorical instruction. 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