This course equips students with competencies that enable students to analyze, critique, and communicate engineering and design ideas in a systematic and thoughtful manner. Students will be introduced to the Engineering Reasoning Framework (Paul, Niewoehner and Elder, 2019), as well as key principles of effective academic communication. Students will learn to apply the critical thinking framework and communication principles to critique ideas expressed in different genres and to convey these in critique essays. They will also engage in a group project aimed at promoting critical analysis and communication in teams that will culminate in a team academic oral presentation.