Facilities & Labs
The department provides a vareity of facilities where students collaborate on projects, polish their skills, and consult with faculty. Each student is provided with a departmental account, providing storage space and access to departmental equipment.
Software Engineering Student Account and Lab Resources Assistance Information
Software Engneering Department Facilities
Student team rooms
Equipped with generous whiteboard space, a meeting table, and comfortable seating for six persons, our 11 team-rooms are an integral part of our philosophy to emphasize the team environment when teaching the engineering of software systems. Each room features a computer-ready ceiling-mounted projector, a workstation, and six Ethernet connections. Students use the team to conduct team meetings, rehearse presentations, review projects, plan activities, or sometimes just to prepare for an exam.
Studio labs
Designed to increase student-instructor interaction, these labs will enable you to understand the most complex concepts through hands-on exercises interleaved with lectures delivered in innovative formats. Each of our two studio labs can seat up to 40 students. One of the studio labs can be split into 2 smaller labs, where each can accomodate up to 20 students. Each studio lab has enough computing power to enable each student to participate in either the individual or team activities.
Real-time and embedded systems
Computing today is not restricted to devices that look like desktop computers. Printers and fax machines, cellular phones, and life-support systems are examples of systems that could not operate without reliable software. Building real-time and embedded systems in this lab will help you learn about one of the fastest-growing fields in computing. A $250,000 NSF grant awarded in the Summer of 2003, will help us outfit this lab with the latest technology. This lab has the capacity for 25 students.
Senior projects lab
Designed as a flexible team-project area, this lab is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by all of our seniors. The lab provides an area where our most advanced students work on challenging projects provided to us by industry and by non-academic entities within RIT.
Mentoring lab
Operated by the Society of Software Engineers (a student-led RIT organization) this lab is designed to allow our newer students to network with other software engineering students who may provide answers to numerous questions related to computing courses, co-op experience, curriculum issues, computing resources, etc. The lab is designed to seat 30 students.
General use lab
This lab is opened daily including weekends and is available to all software engineering majors and those from other programs who may be registered in one of our courses. The lab is outfitted with 40 workstations and generous working space.
Printing facilities
Two high-speed printers located in a central facility can be accessed from any of our workstations.
