Facilities
The College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management (ECC) is housed in the O'Connell Technology Center. ECC maintains
a large site to support its computing and technology needs. Currently,
the College manages 19 labs with a combined total of more than 300
machines (not including machines in faculty and department offices), 16
servers, multiple operating systems, supporting approximately 20,000
users on the Unix servers, using about 90GB of file usage, spanned over
350GB of disk space.
Computing
facilities available to computer science majors include five
general-purpose labs containing Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and
Windows XP workstations. An additional lab is specifically for
graduate students. On the third floor, the department has a separate
computer networks laboratory. Here students get hands-on experience in
configuring and reconfiguring various types of networks, and in the
analysis of data obtained from network analyzers. An eighth lab
containing Hewlett-Packard workstations is available to members of
Network for Women in Technology (NeWT).
Our upper division students want to help you succeed! The office of UPE is located in OCNL 242. Tutoring is available at this location (see the tutoring schedule). OCNL 211 houses the student associations of ACM, CSLUG and NEWT where additional tutoring is available.
A
variety of software tools are available, including a full complement of
UNIX utilities, X Windows tools, GNU software, Oracle relational
database, Java development environment, AI programming libraries and
shells, and software packages or programming tools that support
computer-aided software engineering, graphics and animation, etc.
The Department of Computer Science is a member of the Microsoft Academic Alliance,
giving students free access to all of the Microsoft operating system,
server, and software development products. Students may download this
software for installation on their own machines.
O'Connell
utilizes several high-speed local area networks and is connected to the
rest of campus via an aggregated ethernet link.
ECC Labs
Note: For ECC Unix server accounts, you may go to http://accounts.ecst.csuchico.edu/ to either create a new account or to update your existing account.
Computer Science Labs
The following computer laboratories are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Computer Science:
| Location | Name | Number of Computers |
Projector Installed? |
Operating System |
Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS Windows | *NIX |
|||||
| OCNL 241 |
Linux Lab |
25 | Y | (VM) | Y | |
| OCNL 244 |
Research/Projects Lab |
20 | N | N | Y | Dr. J's Guide to using OCNL 244 |
| OCNL 246 |
Open Lab |
15 | N | Y | (VM) |
Not available for scheduling classes. |
| OCNL 251 |
Windows Lab |
35 | Y | Y | (VM) | |
| OCNL 340 |
Networks Lab |
25 | Y | Y | N | |
Planning Resources:
- Laboratory Plans: 2007-2008, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2003-2004, 2001-2002 (survey summary)
- Excellence Fee Committee (proposal) and Equipment Acquisition Procedure/Policy: 2002
Lab Availability
Labs are typically available during regular business hours. Most labs have classes scheduled in them. Check the door card on each lab door to find out when the lab is free.OCNL 246 is an open lab - no classes are scheduled there.
Tutoring Services
Tutoring services are available for FREE from various student clubs in Computer Science:
- OCNL 242 (a.k.a. The Bit Bucket, formerly in OCNL 133A), the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Computer Science Honor Society Tutoring Office & Library.
- OCNL 211 (a.k.a. The Student Lounge), hang-out area for most majors and club members
