Student-engineered,interactive kinetic sculptures will be on display for the public to see andmanipulate. It means professors from differentdepartments working together on experimental focus areas such as electronicsand microprocessors, manufacturing, and measurements and instrumentation. Traditional lecture classes will not simply be moved from the old building tothe new. Our intention is to bring the lab experience into as manyundergrad classes as can accommodate it. This requires changing the way weteach.
Faculty are more like coaches now, facilitators oflearning.
It is anticipated that the openness of the interior will engender asense of curiosity and appreciation for what others are doing. A lab station is a large labbench work space for four students to work in cooperative experiments. These lab stations will facilitate data acquisition as wellas analysis. It's about ongoing projects within a classroom, working in teams,oral and written presentations, introduction to computer skills all along theway, and designing, building, and testing actual projects. ITLL Facts ITLL has received one of the largest computer grants ever given to apublic educational institution by Hewlett Packard.