Ashby Building
Students of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Software & Electronic System Engineering have access to extensive laboratory facilities distributed throughout the Ashby building and the adjacent Technology Centre. There are dedicated teaching laboratories for undergraduate students in the first two years of the course for Microelectronics, Electronics, Communications, Circuits, Instrumentation, Virtual Reality, Software Engineering, Power and Machines.
Additional computer laboratories support Design and Innovation, Computing and CAD. Multi-million pound specialist laboratories augment these facilities and are used by undergraduates principally for project-based activity. These include a virtual reality theatre, a virtual reality CAVE, extensive cleanroom facilities for microelectronics and nanoelectronics, a robotics laboratory, a renewable energy laboratory and unique equipment for carrying out high voltage work.
In our ECIT building (within the NI Science Park), our undergraduates use state of the art facilities for High Frequency Electronics, Stealth Radar, Remote Sensing, Wearable Computing and Advanced Telecommunications.
Bernard Crossland Building
The Bernard Crossland building has two computer laboratories available to all students enrolled on courses within the School only, and a large study area on the top floor designated for level 3 and MSc students. Each laboratory is equipped with networked workstations (running Windows XP), printers and all software required for undergraduate studies.
Each student has an individual user account to access the PCs. There are several file servers where each student has been allocated storage space (I:). This is intended for assignments, class and project work. Other network resources, such as an IIS server, are available to students for class and project work.
