Civil Engineering | Computer Games and Multimedia Technology | Computing | Electrical Engineering | Surveying |
Civil engineering, hydraulics and related subjects are served by laboratories in Knowledge Dock, Dockland Campus.
The main teaching laboratory has a large flume for open channel work, with pumped supply and fundamental flow measurement by weighing tank. Other equipment includes a perspex model surge tower with computer data logging, an irrigation channel with laser doppler anemometer, a smaller flume and a number of water benches for standard experiments carried out by students to gain a good practical understanding of these subjects.
The adjoining laboratory houses the hydrology apparatus for simulation of rainfall and highway runoff, an Ahlborn tank for open channel and scour investigations, a spillway model, settling column and sedimentation tank. A number of individual laboratory based projects are carried out each year, enabling students to plan and carry out their own research work.
The equipment and work in these laboratories is supervised by experienced staff who are continuing a strong tradition in this subject area at the University of East London, which has resulted in a number of research publications and books in recent years.
The Computer Games and Multimedia Technology laboratory provides a dedicated resource to computing students specialising in the engineering and production of multimedia or computer games products.
The laboratory has full complement of dual processor computers which run dedicated multimedia and computer games software. Typical software available in this laboratory would be MAYA and Virtools for computer games animation and graphics design; Macromedia Director and Adobe Premier for digital video construction; macromedia flash, dreamweaver, and coldfusion for web product construction; macromedia fireworks and adobe photoshop for digital graphics manipulation; macromedia authorware for developing teaching and learning material and on line books; and serif software for the quick and easy construction of user prototypes for all aspects of digital project construction.
In addition to the software a number of state of the art digital still and video cameras, scanners, and music development suites are available to students and staff. Computer games platforms, consoles and associated games are provided within a secure area. The resources are soon to be further strengthened by the dedication of six computers to research and development in video construction; computer games construction; and sound construction.
The School of Computing, Information Technology and Engineering (CITE) maintains and operates a number of computing facilities for use by current students and staff.
The School has a fully compliant Professional Qualifiactions Lab (located in the Knowledge Dock building) to compliment the teaching of the CISCO Professional Qualification. The devices and lab are set up to the latest industry standards and allow students to undertake practical tasks as per the approved curriculum. The lab is also used by students on other networking related programmes throughout the school.
There is also another specialist Network Teaching Lab which is also located in the Knowledge Dock building. This lab has been designed and configured with the novice student in mind. Despite this, the equipment therein is state of the art. There are dual boot PCs (Windows and Linux), LAN devices (hubs, switches, and servers), WAN devices (routers) and wireless devices. Several LANs can be created therein and these can be configured into a fully fledged WAN. Software and hardware configurations for this computer lab are extensive. This lab is utilised by students on our computer related programmes and complements the hands-on teaching of network security, computer networks, systems(devices and applications) configurations, operating systems, end-user support and distributed systems.
IT Technicians are generally on duty when the labs are open.
The computing clusters on the Trading Floor are general purpose and teaching facilities with open access to any current student. These clusters contain primarily the Windows Operating system. The suite of applications supported include:
Department specific applications
Drawing
Microsofy Office XP
Programming
Research Applications
Statistics
Webtools
The specialist Surveying laboratories of the School of Computing, Information Technology and Engineering provide specialist facilities for students in the areas of Photogrammetry (mapping using photographs), Measurement and Information Technology. The laboratories are available for student use (except for areas required at times of formal classes) from 8.00 until 19.00 Monday to Thursday and 8.00 to 16.30 on Fridays during the semesters and from 08.00 to 16.30 at other times.
The photogrammetric section holds 2 analogue stereo plotters, a mono-comparator and an analytical stereo-plotter together with the modern digital image processing systems. The Subject area has a small format metric camera which is used for archaeological and architectural work. The measurement area supports the testing and calibration of a range of measurement equipment, including laser and electronic levels, digital theodolites, alignment lasers, a laser interferometer as well as frequency meters, oscilloscopes etc. These facilities are supported by a 300 metre multi-pillar baseline which is used in the calibration of distance measuring equipment.
The computing provision consists of specialist hardware to support surveying, mapping and GIS software. These include UNIX based workstations, with PCs with digitisers and scanners for mapping, and high resolution graphics to support the processing of digital photography and satellite imagery. Graphic output can be produced via a large format inkjet colour plotter. All computers are connected to the University's network allowing full internet access from each workstation.
The surveying equipment store has a wide range of surveying equipment for students' use. Students have use of some 30 Electronic Total stations from Leica, Sokkia, Topcon, Trimble and Nikon, including reflectorless and robotic instruments, with the necessary ancillary tripods, tribrachs, targets and prisms. Some older optical theodolites from Wild, Kern, CTS, Zeiss are also available. There a number of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) available, offering a range of modes, including Geodetic and Differential (DGPS) receivers from Leica, Trimble and Garmin. Several sets of Levelling equipment (optical and digital), distance measurement and other ancillary equipment are also held in the store. Timetabled classes take precedence for the use of equipment, but at all other times equipment is available for students self-directed learning, practical work and experimentation. All Health and Safety Guidelines for field work must be followed.
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