BTW, yeah "technology wise" ksu engg might be behind because we dont have collaborative classrooms, but its also based on teacher lecture style. 90% of profs in engineering are actually receiving reviews from students above 75% overall, teaching style included. why would they move from chalkboard and notes to ipad and expensive stuff if they don't need it? yeah, sure, there are some classes where you NEED technology (electrical design labs, programming, graphics) but for the most part its actually not preferred. instead they're going to have way more collaboration areas and classrooms where groups or teams can work together, as well as greatly expand the peer tutoring area. Phase 4 will also focus on recruitment... right now you walk into the building and your like wtf where do i go. now there will be a welcome center right near the deans office.
also, the design teams also get a huge help. they all get basically the whole basement to themselves, not having to share it with classes, and they all get they're own "bays" with more collaboration area. AND computer science finally gets to join the big boy engineers over so that we have one building for (almost) the whole college.
really, the expansion is not about advancing technology, it's about creating more usable room for a growing college. and its a terrible argument to say its going to suck because there wont be smartboards everywhere. that's not what teachers OR students want. they'll have access to wifi, they'll have access to computers, printing, scanning...etc. and that's all that is highly sought after now.