Computing Facilities
Undergraduate CEMR computer laboratories are located on the second floors of both CEMR and the ESB. Both PCs and terminals which are connected to the WVNET mainframes, with internet access, are readily available.
The MAE Department is implementing a plan to provide wireless network access in the Ground Floor and 3rd Floor, where most MAE student activities take place. Students having their own laptops will be able to access the local area network (LAN) and the web. Wired Ethernet access points are already available through the engineering building but the wireless network will provide widespread access, even inside classrooms. Software applications such as MATLAB, Auto-Cad, Ansys, I-Deas, Fluent and so on can be installed on student's laptops, with the software license negotiated from the LAN while the students are in the engineering building.
The MAE Department has a state-of-the-art Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Laboratory in Rm. 114-ERB with Unix, Linux, and Intel based parallel clusters among other innovative computing facilities. This facility is used to promote research at West Virginia University in the field of fluid mechanics with emphasis on turbulent flows with combustion and multiphase turbulent flows, through the use of high performance computers.
The MAE Department is building a Computer Classroom in Rm. G78-ESB with a state-of-the-art parallel cluster and thin-node LAN. This facility will be used to deliver lectures in Computer Aided Design, Aircraft Simulations and Control, other advanced graduate courses and so on. In addition, students registered in these courses will have access to perform projects related to the courses being taught there.
     
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