Projects have been sponsored by Hewlett Packard, Lockheed, GTE, IBM, Intel, EPRI, NASA and other companies and research organizations. The Center for Mathematics and Computer Science Education also supports events of interest to students and teachers in the local community. Special lectures related to education, institutes and conferences are sponsored. The center coordinates faculty research projects. Some of these projects assist with funding special demonstration classrooms.
Funds are available to support students in obtaining teaching credentials.
The department operates four computing laboratories. One of these is a drop-in lab designed for student use to support course work in the department. These labs contain approximately 40 Pentium PCs with the Windows NT operating system, and five Sun workstations running the Unix operating system. Two of the labs are closed labs used for classes in mathematics and computer science. An additional closed Macintosh lab serves classes for future K-12 teachers of mathematics.