Computing Facilities

The University of Ottawa offers state-of-the-art computing facilities to its students.

At the Faculty of Engineering, students have access to several facilities:

• the Computing Facility in Colonel By Hall (CBY)
• the Computer Lab located in SITE 0110 – be sure to check the schedule
• Instrumentation Labs located in Colonel By and SITE - be sure to read lab information and check the schedules

Online Documentation is available to help you:

• create your Faculty of Engineering account or change your password
• check the teaching labs schedule for the current and next session
• generate your lab account
• understand the lab environment, hardware and software.
• use the Faculty’s email system (restrictive use)
• use the Faculty’s printers
• understand the Faculty of Engineering's Unix hosts
• take advantage of the Faculty of Engineering's web and network services
• learn about the Subversion (SVN) repository system
• use certain software applications
• download the Microsoft DreamSpark Premium bundle of development software for free (formerly MSDNAA)
• download Microsoft DreamSpark at no charge.
• download VMware Academic Program software for free

All of our offices and classes are connected to the University wireless network and many courses make extensive use of the Internet. For more information, visit www.ccs.uottawa.ca

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