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Abstract
One of the most challenging tasks confronting faculty that teach in CIS/MIS programs is providing students the opportunity to not only study various information technology concepts and principles but to experience them through “hands-on” projects. The data communications course likely presents the greatest challenge because a hands-on project in this course may be costly, time consuming, and/or interrupt services to students other than those taking the data communications course. This paper presents a way that a computer lab dedicated to the data communications course can be implemented for less than $600. It looks at preliminary course design, faculty preparation, lab project design, and hardware/software acquisition.