In addition to all the hardware available to our students, we provide access to a number of additional resources.

  • Google Apps for Education: As part of the department, you will receive a Gmail account which is part of our domain. As part of this program, you will have access to email, chat, shared calenders, and much more. Additionally, you will have an Google Drive account with unlimited online storage.
  • Microsoft Azure for Education: (Formerly known as Imagine: (Formerly known as Dreamspark)) This is a Microsoft program which supports technical education by providing software for students, faculty and computer labs. Using this resource, students in our department can download Microsoft software packages such as Windows Servers, Visual Studio, Microsoft operating systems and are able to take advantage of Microsoft’s cloud-based resources.
  • Student Managed Servers: We have additional ESXi servers configured to host dedicated servers for both students & student organizations. If you find yourself needing a server for a special project, a simple request will often get you the resources you will need.
  • VPN Access: Engineering students are provided VPN access to the campus network to provide secure access to School of Engineering resources. Using this connection students can connect access specialty servers required for classes, access lab computers directly for special projects, connect to vCenter to access student managed ESXi hosts, and more… Students can find detailed instructions at VPN Access for School of Engineering Students.
  • Useful Software: This is a listing of some of the most useful software we have found:
    • VcXrv: A X-11 Server for Windows which allows you to take advantage of graphical apps when using WSL
    • 7-Zip: A Windows utility for working with nearly every compressed file format.
    • MobaXterm: A utility which brings the key Unix commands to your Windows machine. It allows for multiple tabbed sessions and supports X11 sessions.
    • Notepad ++: A full featured text editor for Windows.
    • Putty: An down an dirty terminal program for Windows.
    • RealTerm: A nice terminal program which has more options than you will know what to do with.
    • SFTP NetDrive: A nice tool which allows you to utilize our SSH servers to mount your SoE home directory on your Windows machine from either on or off campus.
    • If there is something you think is great, let us know and we will add it to the list!
  • MobilePrint: Using this web-based utility, students have access to all the campus printers from any devices, including the computers in the SoE labs. For directions, please review THIS documentation.
  • Hands-on functional computer museum: We have working machines if you want to take a step back in time. From our TRS-80 and Tandy-1000 to our 386 machines running DOS 3.3 & Windows 3.1, we have machines which you haven’t seen for awhile. Additionally we have a first generation Pentium with OS-2 Warp and some vintage Macintosh machines based off Motorola 68K series processors. We have recently received a donation of a PDP/11 which we hope to have available soon.