Aerospace Computer Lab
The computer laboratory maintained by AE and is located in Room 318 of the Montgomery Knight Building and occupies approximately 700 square feet of space.
Hours and Access
The laboratory is currently operational every day except from 5-7 AM when maintenance is carried out. Access to the room is controlled by Buzz Card and it is accessible to undergraduates from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m. Monday-Friday. Supervising graduate teaching assistants for the senior capstone design courses also have access to the lab and may use it on weekends and evenings for supervised lab sessions. The lab is configured as a part of the campus Active Directory network, use your GT account to login and store your files.
Hardware
There are currently 46 systems in the lab running Windows XP, and these were all updated in Spring 2008 with high performance quad core processors and widescreen displays. The lab also includes a high capacity printer.
Software
The lab supports a suite of software that is appropriate to the educational and research objectives of the school. The core includes word processors, spreadsheets, equation solvers, math systems, graphics systems, network access software, and all software in the suite of software that students are required to purchase. In addition, a smaller number of special purpose software systems are maintained. Site-licensed software available on all these computers includes AutoCAD, ABAQUS, ANSYS, FLUENT,JMP, MAPLE, MATHEMATICA, MATLAB/ Simulink/ Stateflow, Microsoft Office and Solid Edge. The lab is firewalled from the rest of the AE network and is not accessible from outside the lab. The campus wireless network, LAWN, is accessible from within the lab, and students may connect their laptops to the LAWN network.
Or you may try the AE virtual Computer lab: at vlab.matrix.gatech.edu, select the latest AE semester version that is available.
