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
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.
