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).
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 Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDNAA),
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.
College of ECC Labs
A list of all College of ECC teaching and research laboratories is available from the College website at http://www.csuchico.edu/ecc/resources/computing.shtml
For all ECC Computing accounts, you may go to http://accounts.ecst.csuchico.edu/ to either create a new account or to update your existing account.
Additional information (courtesy of Dr. Juliano) that you may find useful:
- CSCI Linux Lab, OCNL 251
- CSCI Windows Lab, OCNL 241
- ECC Unix Servers
Please report issues with any of the the College of ECC labs or Unix servers to
- Elbert Chan, ECC Systems Administrator
E-mail: echan@csuchico.edu
Office: OCNL 249
Phone: 530 898-6481
Computer Science Labs
Computer Science (CSCI) computer 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 research lab (check out the ISL website for additional information) - classes are typically not scheduled there.
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
Tutoring Services
Our upper division students want to help you succeed! Tutoring services are available for FREE from the following locations:
- OCNL 242 (a.k.a. The Bit Bucket, formerly in OCNL 133A), the Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Computer Science Honor Society Tutoring Office & Library (see their tutoring schedule).
- OCNL 211 (a.k.a. The Student Lounge), hang-out area for most majors and club members (ACM, CSLUG, etc.)
- SSC 340, the University Student Learning Center (SLC) also provides free tutoring for a variety of subjects
