Facilities, School of Computing, at Scotland's Biggest Modern University

Facilities

Over the past five years, the University has invested substantially in the development of a number of labs to support the new technology programmes in the School of Computing.

Computers

The School of Computing resources over 500 computers in its 25 Computing labs. This results in a Student/Computer ratio of approximately 2:1, which is considered to be excellent.

While the specification of the computers varies between the different labs almost all of the computers operate on Windows XP.

Microsoft

The University negotiated Microsoft Campus Agreement, enables staff and students to obtain copies of Office at minimal cost for use at home. The School of Computing has two further agreements with Microsoft under wich all staff and students of the School can have copies of Microsoft operating systems (upgrades) and developer software (for example, Expression and Visual Studio) for use at home.

Lab Resources

For more information on the Lab Resources to support the different programmes in the School of Computing select Lab Resources.

Cutting-edge Facilities

The University has invested over ?1/4 m on installing labs for new degrees in Computer Games Technology and Music Technology, as well as upgrading equipment across our computing labs.

Facilities Include:

Our Apple MAC G4 lab with Final Cut Pro video editing software, allows students to compose music, input music manually or by keyboard using E-Magic Logic software and print out music scores.

A fully-equipped music and post-production unit with a recording studio and acoustic isolation room is available for Music Technology students to record and edit their work.

Our Computer Games labs are kitted out with the latest GeForce graphics cards, graphics editing software, MS Visual C++ and DirectX SDK packages for high performance games programming.

In addition to high performance workstations, students have access to the University's state-of -the-art 3D visualisation lab