College classrooms of the 1990’s could include teacher lecturing and student response through computers. For Mississippi State University’s College of Business and Industry, the future has arrived.

The College of Business and Industry has devised and installed the electronic classroom. This classroom features 48 computers linked to and monitored by an instructor’s computer.

The computers are also connected to approximately 150 other computers throughout campus.

“This is one of the largest local area networks in the world,” Rodney Pearson, assistant professor of business and industry, said.

“This classroom is an instructive network in which students can work with real world data and develop their analytical skills,” Dennis Leyden, dean of MSU’s College of Business and Industry, said.

The electronic classroom, which was installed in the spring of 1989, is designed to help students by giving them the chance to use software packages without having to purchase them.