Texas A&M College of Engineering Innovates with Citrix Solutions to Transform the Student Experience
October 26 2016 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
The IT Department Replaces Traditional Computer
Lab with Collaboration Room and Supports Mobile Devices
In today’s digital learning environment, students expect to
navigate their education in the same way that they manage their
personal interactions and transactions. They demand a highly
engaged and personalized experience – accessible via their
preferred communication channels and devices – giving educational
institutions that can deliver on these expectations a competitive
advantage. Texas A&M, the largest university in the state of
Texas, with about 60,000 students at the main campus and 17,000
students in the College of Engineering, turned to Citrix to
transform the educational experience for engineering students by
introducing new innovative options for how they securely access
their critical apps.
The IT team leading the College of Engineering was looking for a
way to allow students to bring in their own personal devices or use
university-supplied Chromebooks while ensuring the interoperability
of existing technologies and security of these devices regardless
of where they are used. With Citrix virtualization solutions Citrix
XenApp and XenDesktop, and Citrix networking solution NetScaler
ADC, they enabled student access to applications and data while
maintaining the control and security that IT required. They also
created an engineering environment that allowed them to replace
traditional physical desktop computers in the computer labs with
zero clients, which use far less power and can last an average of
eight years or more. Immediately, the feedback from students was an
enthusiastic demand for more of this technology that gave them the
freedom to work as they were accustomed to – from any mobile
device, in any location – whether in the lab, in a dorm room or in
a coffee shop.
As the College of Engineering team continued to expand the
concept to other labs and classrooms, they began to prove the value
of their idea and became known as innovators across the university.
As a result, group leaders around the university were willing to
fund the IT team’s next big idea – a new kind of computer lab that
resembled the collaborative workspace typical of today’s high-tech
corporations. The team created a new physical space by altering the
design of the room to support a diverse set of activities from
independent study to collaboration on group projects. Instead of a
room comprised of traditional rows of desktop computers on tables,
open spaces with inviting seating and empty tables were created. In
these new flexible spaces, students can bring and use their own
personal devices or the university-supplied Chromebooks, all while
still securely accessing the same robust engineering software they
previously could only use on the desktops in the computer lab.
Students enjoy the same great results, but with an improved user
experience. Transforming the labs into a more digital setting is
building innovation into how they are talking about issues, and
what they are doing to solve them by allowing them to get into new
and creative areas of discussion. And according to Forrester,
reorganizing physical workspaces to foster collaboration and
mobility is a trend on the rise among many universities.1
Enabling a new way of learning not only inspires creativity and
simplifies the lives of students, it supports the university’s
larger goal of preparing students to successfully transition into
the business world by offering them similar ways of working. And by
saving the IT team time that used to be spent refreshing PCs every
three years, they can now focus on new creative IT projects
supporting their anticipated growth to an enrollment of nearly
25,000 students spread out across Texas by 2025.
Quotes
Mark Henry, Manager of Virtualization and Learning
Technologies for the College of Engineering, Texas A&M
“We’ve adopted Citrix solutions to create a virtual workspace
that allows our students and faculty to access apps and data from
any location at any time. We’ve also renovated our computer lab to
function as a collaborative space, rather than as a traditional lab
with desktops. As a result, our IT team has noticed that the
ability for students to get into a more creative setting has
changed their way of thinking when collaborating on school work.
And what’s great about Citrix solutions is that they allowed us to
offer this flexibility without sacrificing security.
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1 Forrester’s Global Business Technographics Mobility Survey,
2016 – 32% of respondents from universities say that reorganizing
physical workspaces to foster collaboration and mobility of
workforce is a high priority.
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