Cited Research Laboratories

Colleges of Engineering and Sciences

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

The College of Engineering has six computer research laboratories. Computer equipment includes a medium size mainframe computer system. The college has four microcomputer labs installed within the complex. Two of these labs are linked by a local area network. The entire college will be linked via a fiber optics dual ring FDDI network with the mainframe computer serving as an outside link to national networks such as Internet, Suranet, MuSpin, etc. The present computer facilities provide UNIX, CMS and McGill University System for Interactive Computing (MUSIC) operating system environments. Languages such as FORTRAN, PASCAL, C, and ADA are all available for student usage. Additionally, other design tools such as MATHCAD, AUTOCAD, ORCAD, and Micrologic are currently available.

Collaboration with the Engineering Education Coalition, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, has enhanced capability to the College of Engineering through additional computers, such as Sun, IBM R/S 6000, and Apple Workstations.

The Department of Civil Engineering has equipment to perform most fundamental laboratory experiments in environmental and water resources engineering. Equipment also is available for experiments in fluid flow in open channels and closed conduits. The department's environmental laboratories support research and instruction in water and wastewater analysis, solid and hazardous waste, air quality and bioremediation. Civil Engineering has a comprehensive wet chemistry laboratory with gas chromatographs, mass spectrophotometers and atomic absorption spectrophotometers. Faculty and students have access to a full complement of mainframe, workstation, and microcomputer hardware and software for theoretical research in environmental and water resources engineering. A fully equipped geo-technical laboratory also supports work performed by faculty and students.

The Department of Electrical Engineering currently operates five laboratories. A telecommunication lab contains modular communications components from which students currently build and study IS & FM transmitters and receivers and data modems. Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzes, and other test equipment provides the capability to measure performance and signal characteristics. The lab also houses Analog/Digital conversion hardware and a set of workstations running Digital Signal Processing software for modeling and study of digital filtering techniques. Solid-state Devices and VLSI Laboratory houses equipment such as water probing station and a transistor parametric tester. They are used for characterization and testing of devices and integrated circuits. A High Performance Computing Multi-Media Laboratory is used extensively in government and industry supported research of high-speed data interfaces and protocols

COLLEGE OF SCIENCES

The Department of Biology has several laboratories that are equipped with state of the art instrumentation and animal quarters for health and biological science research. The Health Research Center provides additional research labs for biological and biochemical research. A transmission electron microscope and a biotechnology lab are the recent additions.

The Department of Chemistry houses nine research laboratories, three instrumentation laboratories, three-service storerooms, and other support services. The laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art instruments which include an FT/NMR (300 MHz), a GC Mass Spectrometer, two Atomic Absorption spectrometers, a 60 mhz NMR, a scintillation counter, several gas chromatographs, an HPCL chromatograph, a total analyzer, an ultracentrifuge, an automatic titrator, and several infrared, ultraviolet, and visible spectrometers.

The Department of Computer Science houses seven computer laboratories and the Southern University Industrial Applications Center (SU/IAC) with access to nearly 500 computerized databases including Scientific and Technological Databases, the Commerce Business Daily, Business and Industry Databases, and the Database of Databases. Some of the equipment includes DEC VAX 8200, Raytheon data system, PTS/1200, seven AT&T 3B2/300's linked by STARLAN, AT&T 3B2/400, DEC PDP 11/70, seven AT&T UNIX 7300 PC's, a teaching laboratory with 25 IBM PS/2's linked by a Token Ring, and other pieces of equipment. These Local Area Networks (LANs) are connected to a campus network of mainframe computers, including IBM ES 9000 and IBM 4341.

The Department of Mathematics has three computer labs. A General Math Lab consisting of 36 computers; a Statistics Lab consisting of 20 Compaq Pentium III computers; and a Computational Lab consisting of 10 Dell Pentium II computers. Our General Math Lab is devoted to remediation, tutoring and testing. Software packages used in the General Math Lab include Derive, software packages to accompany the textbooks for Math 092, 130, 131, 135, 140, MATHCAD, MINITAB STATISTICAL, MATHEMATICS 2.0 FOR WINDOWS, and a Test Processor. The Statistical Lab is dedicated to improving undergraduate and graduate teaching of statistics and geometry courses. Software packages including SPSS and MINITAB will be used to give the student a more active role in the classroom. The Computational Lab will be dedicated to learning through experimentation and testing. The software package will be primarily used in the Computational Lab is MATHEMATICA. The Statistic Lab and the Computational Lab are both new. The department also has a reading room for mathematics majors and faculty that contains two computers for research projects.

The Department of Physics houses 11 instructional laboratories and four research laboratories, including the Particle Detector and High Energy lab and the High-Tec Superconductivity Study and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Lab. Instrumentation includes a Fourier Transform IR Spectrophotometer, a CAMAC Based Date Acquisition System, a sun spac Station, 35 IBM computers, 15 MacIntosh computers, a Digital Computer Vax Station, four Gateway 2000 XL computers, and other equipment.

The Department of Sociology operates two computer laboratories. Each laboratory is equipped with 486 Pentium micro-computers, connected through the Local Area Network (LAN) to the campus mainframe computer and the Internet. One laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation, is often used as an Electronic Media Classroom.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Michael Stubblefield, Vice Chancellor for
Office of Research and Strategic Initiatives
Physical Address: 730 Harding Boulevard, Baton Rouge, LA 70813
Mailling Address: P.O. Box 9272, Baton Rouge, LA 70813
Phone: (225) 771-3890
Fax: (225) 771-5231

Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday