It looks decidedly unacademic â?? a room with a plush couch, a coffee table and a flat screen TV rimmed with candles.
But there it sits, smack in the middle of the University of Wisconsin-Madisonâ??s biomedical engineering department, a room outfitted more appropriately for a living room than an educational building.
Professors and administrators call it the “innovation room,” and its main purpose is to provoke deep thought.
It has long been considered an advantage â?? one might even say necessary â?? for students to think, mull and brainstorm whilst in college.