A living laboratory

This paper describes the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (ITLL) of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Col orado (CU), Boulder. Not only does the building support and drive our curri culum but the design of the building was curriculum driven. In fact, the bu ilding itself serves as a laboratory instrument with more than 300 sensors embedded throughout the building and the opportunity to perform experiments on the building itself. All the sensor data are available on the Web. The ITLL is truly an example of Winston Churchill's quote-"first we shape our b uildings and then our buildings shape us.".