Graduate student mail boxes are located in the hallway next to the computer lab. The IES has equipment for use by both students and staff. Available are an electronic scanner, drafting equipment, surveying instruments, a portable fish shocker, water sampling and analysis kits, air samplers, solar radiation monitors, a boat, and aquatic biology sampling equipment. In the IES Computer Lab there are six modern, networked PC computers and printers. Mainframe computers are available for students and staff and can be accessed through the PCs in the computer lab.
Disk space is provided on the mainframe for all students to create and maintain their own websites.
One objective of the M.En. program is to insure that all our graduates will leave with a working knowledge of computers and their applications. Many go beyond this level to include sophisticated database applications, hydrologic modeling, and computer cartography. All students work with the widely used Minitab statistical package. A large, well-equipped geographic information systems laboratory is housed in Shideler Hall and staffed by the Department of Geography. A wide range of software, high capacity microcomputers, digitizers and output devices is available.