Policy

  1. Guidlines for admission:

    • Students must be taking a class that uses the lab.
    • Students must be at the graduate level.
    • Undergraduates that are not taking classes that uses the lab must have a signature from a professor in order to gain access to the lab.

  2. Do not give out the lab combination or grant access to others. Otherwise the labs will be recoded at the expense of the department whose student was responsible for providing the code.


  3. Do NOT eat or drink anything near the computers. This means no food or drink on the countertops. Setting food and drinks on a chair or on a table to the side is acceptable. If this rule is not being followed, lab monitors will politely ask the user to move it. Repeat offenders will be asked to leave the lab. Additionally, the lab monitors will determine if the food and drink policy is being abused, and if so this privilege will be banned.


  4. Please leave your work area in a clean condition by throwing away trash and pushing in chairs. We provide trash cans and recycling bins in both labs, please use them freely.


  5. No inappropriate use of the Internet.


  6. Do not install any software or modify any computer settings.


  7. Respect the other users of the lab. This is not a social arena.


  8. Allow others to use priority machines such as those with Transcad, Endnote, Nvivo and the Scanner.


  9. The door code will give you 24-hour access if you can get in the building. There will be lab monitors from 8-5pm Monday thru Friday.


  10. SS258 is only available if there are no classes in session.
    Please see schedule for available hours.


  11. Print Manager system automatically tracks quotas
    Black & White laser - $0.05, Color laser $0.20
    Default quota - $2.00 (40 pages B & W).
    Print account indicator balance: http://ssrl-srv1/pmp
    (WARNING: This link indicates the user's print balance only, it does not accurately update the balance when a print job is initiated.)
    Plan ahead of time when adding money to the account balance. Increments of $5.00 is the minimum charge when adding to the account. To add money to your account or to find out your exact print balance, please talk to Chuck in SS317, or Sarah in the R.A. corner of SS262.


  12. Files should always be saved on a memory device. Files can also be saved to any machine on C:/Workspace, however it will be cleared every two weeks by lab monitors. We strongly encourage students to purchase USB drives and use them for saving data and projects.


  13. Please log off when computers are not in use. If a user account is found logged on for a certain period, the computer will lock itself out, preventing other users to access it. The user account will be recorded and the computer will be reset by lab monitors, causing open files to be lost on that user account. If a user is recorded from locking out computers three times throuhout the semester, he/she will be asked to go talk to the Network Administrator