School of Information Technology and Engineering

University Computing Capability

Academic computing capability is provided by laboratories offering a large number of individual student computers, as well as campuswide networked facilities. All laboratories are networked and include access to local and remote servers as well as the Internet.

IT&E provides multiple labs equipped with Microsoft NT workstations, Windows PCs, Sun workstations, Network Computing Device workstations, and SGI graphical workstations, as well as workstations of other manufacturers. The IT&E central system computers are clustered into UNIX and NT networks that support the student labs as well as faculty and departmental machines.

Software includes compilers for a variety of programming languages and software tools supporting engineering design, graphics, neural networks, and high-performance/parallel computing. Specialized facilities are available for artificial intelligence, software engineering, image processing and computer vision, virtual reality, and parallel and distributed computing research.