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In this chapter, we discuss the development and pursuit of two interdisciplinary trading zones in which the authors participated:(1) an initial year in which we developed the notion of “humanistic engineering” in the University of Colorado at Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, and (2) a thirty-three-month period in which Fisher functioned as an “embedded humanist” in Mahajan’s Thermal and Nanotechnology Laboratory. In both cases, we sought to integrate the divergent perspectives of engineering and the humanities in order to enhance the ability of engineers—in undergraduate, graduate, and ultimately professional contexts—to engage in productive, self-critical inquiry. After describing areas of overlap between our various backgrounds and perspectives, we describe our collaborative undertakings, including the genesis and employment of several locutions and metaphors that framed and …