Texas A&M at Qatar Education City, Doha, Qatar Engineering faculty and students save time and gain knowledge with interactive technology

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Overview
A prestigious American university, Texas A&M’s satellite campus is located at Education City in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar and is dedicated to educating an international student base in the engineering sciences. In its fourth year, the university is growing by 50–70 students per year and boasts an ethnically-diverse student body that is nearly 50 percent female. Through its use of technology, Texas A&M at Qatar is committed to providing an interactive and collaborative experience for its resident learners.

Challenge
Texas A&M at Qatar needed a technology that would cater to its large lecture theaters, be compatible with tablet PCs, and would encourage interactive and collaborative learning between faculty and students.

SMART Solution
Texas A&M University at Qatar installed Sympodium interactive pen displays in every classroom and lecture hall. With a projected image large enough to highlight the most intricate of engineering schema, students benefit from clearer lessons, and professors are able to write over top of projected applications and save these annotations for future use. Lessons delivered with the Sympodium interactive pen display are posted online, so professors save time and encourage collaborative learning.

Results
Students and faculty share digital notes and save time in an interactive, collaborative learning environment.

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