The totally interactive classroom offers multiple benefits. Students can access engineering software, the Internet and each other as they work on projects.
Professors can project students' computer screens onto an overhead projection screen for discussion.
The HP equipment includes two printers, a NetsServer Lx Pro, and an instructor's computer tied in with a projection screen. This configuration has opened up a new way for UT engineering and technical communication instructors to integrate lectures and labs and to foster feedback between students and their instructors. UT professors unanimously praise the educational aspects of the first HP classroom and are looking forward to using the second HP classroom, which will open in April with 23 workstations. The instructors especially enjoy the convenience and creative aspects of having a classroom and computer lab in one, whether they're teaching junior high students or graduate students. This is a computer-intensive course that previously held separate lecture and lab sessions in two different facilities.