“…Without this interaction students sometimes consider economics to be irrelevant to design -a subject for business students," an observation by Archibald, Reuber, and Allison 1 . Engineering education literature has continuously shown that projects with industry can be helpful for undergraduate and graduate students, even the processes of soliciting, administering, and managing industry projects that reinforce academic topics in engineering, technology, manufacturing, project management, lean, and six sigma [2][3][4][5][6] . Ancillary topics that are reinforced include professionalism (through interaction with industry), teamwork, and leadership 7 .…”