Inside Iowa State: Iowa State University

INSIDE IOWA STATE
April 19, 2002

Footloose and wireless

Art and design students work, unwired, in class on their laptops. The College of Design building was outfitted 18 months ago with seven wireless hubs, making the entire building essentially a wireless zone. Last fall, the college launched a laptop computer lease-to-own program for students accepted into its five professional programs; about 90 students currently lease computers that way. "We still have our public computer labs, but we saw this (wireless) as a way to get students back into the studios. In our digital world, people had started to scatter," said Mike Miller, systems support specialist for the college. Photo by Bob Elbert.