This paper describes a Workshop Physics style laboratory for first year Physics- Engineering Dual Degree majors at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse (UWL). With the support of an NSF grant, we have established a computer interfaced physics laboratory to go along with the calculus based introductory physics course. This course uses networked Microcomputer Based Laboratories (MBL) to acquire and analyze experimental data. The laboratories are done very much in the Workshop Physics style, although the formal lecture sessions are kept as well. We completed the first offering of this laboratory (PHY 203 General Physics I) in the Fall of 1999, and the student responses have been tremendous and retention rates have been increasing. The first offering of the second semester of the laboratory (PHY 204 General Physics II) was also very successful. The student comments were very positive, and 98% of the students strongly recommended to continue the laboratory format for future students.
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