Teaching Facilities

The department is located in the modern and state of the art Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex at the heart of downtown Montreal. Computing facilities for teaching are provided by the centralized IT services of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, namely Academic and Information Technology Services (AITS). Over 1600 PCs are integrated in a gigabit Network, in addition to a 16 terabyte NAS file server, numerous "Services" and "Application" servers, and a modern HPC Cluster with 464 compute cores and 128 visualization cores.

For undergraduate teaching, the facilities are located in the Hall Building where our department uses over 21 different computer labs with a total capacity of 484 seats/PCs and over 10 project rooms with 17 seats/PCs to experiment with security, software installation and evaluation, and implementation of device-drivers.

For graduate teaching, there are about 300 desktops available in 26 computer labs and 4 project rooms in the EV building. All systems are dual boot Linux/Windows(XP), with general Microsoft tools provided by the current Campus agreement and other special engineering applications (AutoCAD, Matlab, Rational Rose, etc) necessary to satisfy the teaching mission. The software is updated every term and the systems are monitored closely.