在过去两年里，东部大学的所有新生都被要求不受限制地使用个人电脑。这一要求对学生对其学习经历的反应、许多学科领域的教学方法以及学生解决问题的方法产生了重大影响。学生在日常工作中使用个人电脑，而不需要老师的督促，这通常会提高质量。这种体验不仅限于工程领域，该领域以外的教师和学生也会在工作中发现个人电脑的意外应用。由于计算机往往会抹去“工作”和“玩耍”之间的界限，学生们会花更多时间探索解决问题的替代方法。他们还发现，使用电子表格方法的计算机程序非常适合解决各种HVAC问题。 单位:I-PCITION:研讨会，ASHRAE交易，1987年，第93卷，pt。1，纽约州纽约市

For the past two years, all incoming freshmen at an eastern university have been required to have unlimited access to a personal computer. This requirement has had major impacts on student responses to their learning experience, on methods of instruction in many subject areas, and students' approaches to problem solution. Without prodding on the part of their instructors, students utilize their personal computers in their everyday work, which usually results in improved quality. This experience is not limitied to the engineering area, but both faculty and students outside that area also discover unexpected applications for the personal computer in their work. Since the computer tends to obliterate the line between "work" and "play" students spend more time in exploring alternate methods of solution to problems. They also discover that computer routines using the spreadsheet approach are well suited to solving a great variety of HVAC problems.Units: I-P