The Woodruff School has a complete range of computer facilities. All undergraduate students have access to a computer either through the Institute s extensive computer clusters or a personal computer. Beginning in the 1997 academic year, all incoming undergraduate students are required to have a computer either a PC or a Macintosh platform with university-designated software packages and hardware enhancements. In addition, every graduate student has access to computers through their participation in research area groups. Electronic mail and WWW accounts are maintained on central servers for faculty and staff.
Some help is available to get faculty started setting up web pages.
The CNE group also provides dial-in accounts for faculty, staff, and graduate students to connect to the Internet as well as back to campus computing facilities. Three computing clusters are maintained for academic and research use. The MRDC general use cluster provides students with general use computing, a cluster where groups can gather to work on computers together, and software such as Matlab and Autocad. There is also a general use cluster in the SSTC building. The CNE group also maintains the intrabuilding network.