’ intrapersonal and interpersonal skills [6]. Integrating mindfulness-based practices intofirst-year engineering courses is likely to benefit students in many ways.In this work, brief mindfulness-based meditation practices were incorporated into a requiredfirst-year engineering design course. This paper will detail students’ perceptions on includingthese practices into their course and the authors will share their insights on incorporating thesepractices into the course.MethodsBrief mindfulness-based meditation practices were incorporated into multiple sections of arequired first-year engineering design course at a large mid-Atlantic university as part of twolarger institutional review board approved research studies. Each meditation practice