First year engineering students lack of understanding of the field and skills required as engineers make it hard for them to grasp the efforts needed on their development to become future engineers. In the Chemical Engineering Programme in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), the Introduction to Engineering course was specifically designed to bridge the gap in students’ learning and professional skills as well as understanding of engineering from their pre-university levels to prepare them for learning engineering in the university using Cooperative Problem Based Learning (CPBL). Among first year Chemical Engineering students in UTM, programming courses are particularly a pain to engineering students. Considering these issues regarding first year students, Introduction to Computer Programming (ICP) course was designed to be integrated with the CPBL problem for Introduction to Engineering (ITE) course. This paper aims to present the integration CPBL problem in both ITE and ICP courses and examine students’ perception on the teaching practice. Students perceived that the integrated problem helped them see the application and usefulness of programming and motivated them to put effort in learning.