Group size will be 3 or 4. During most classes we will muster into our groups first. Some homework assignments will be specifically assigned as group assignments. This means that you only hand in one set of solutions for the whole group. If an assignment is given as an individual assignment but you work on it in a group, each person must submit their own assignment.
All exams are individual exams.
These persons play the skeptics during class assignments and try to bring up points of contention or confusion for the problems. I am a bit of an introvert. Thus, when individual time starts the class should be silent as they start to solve the problem themselves. Then I will end individual time and the group will then interact. To be a successful engineer of any type requires working in teams.