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Lab facilities
The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science has the main laboratories for undergraduate usage: The Informatics Teaching Laboratory (ITL), the Drop-in laboratory and the Electronics laboratory
Informatics Teaching Laboratory (ITL)
The ITL consists of four large open-plan programming laboratories over three floors with 200+ computers, workshops, a range of seminar, study and meeting rooms, a quiet room, a help-desk and offices for support staff.
The ITL is a purpose-built building designed by the architectural firm MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, who also designed our student village. The Laboratory was made possible by a generous gift from the Wolfson Foundation and substantial funding from the UFC (now HEFCE).
Drop-in laboratory
The ground-floor of our purpose built ITL is predominantly used as undergraduate Drop-in lab for general computing. The drop-in lab is open from 8am to midnight seven days a week. This is where students go for extra study time when the ITL is running labs. The computing facilities are the same as in the ITL.
Electronics laboratory
The Electronics lab is where we have specialised workspace for hardware-related courses. It is only open during timetabled lab sessions. Its computing facilities are similar to the Drop-in lab. There are 20+ computers and 60 workstations for multi-purpose hardware teaching ranging from circuit design to power engineering to digital signal processing.
Equipment and software
Our rolling replacement programme ensures that we maintain a high-quality, modern computing provision with over 300 fully networked multimedia workstations, which run both the Linux and Windows operating systems. Network ports are also provided for students choosing to use their own laptops for practical work. In addition, a wireless network covers all areas of the School. A high quality printing service is provided by laser printers on each floor and in each lab.
Students have access to a wide range of industry-standard software, including a variety of integrated software development environments, database management systems and web servers. A variety of specialised equipment and software is also available for course and project work.
Open Access
The various labs are open seven days a week, generally between 8am and midnight. During supervised laboratory sessions some areas may be reserved for use by individual courses. Access is under security card control. Students can also gain remote access to the School's computing facilities 24-hours-a-day.
