This page provides an overview of the computing resources available at Temple University.

Computer Labs                                 Software
 

Computer Labs

Architecture IT Center and Labs, Department of Architecture
Tyler School of Art
The Architecture Department IT Center and Computer labs currently provide service to over three hundred students and approximately twenty staff. All PCs are running Windows XP and support AutoCAD 2002, FormZ 4.2, Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign) and MS Office 2003 Suite. Mac G4's are running OS X10.3 and support FormZ 4.2, Adober CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign) and MS Office 2003 Suite.

AutoCAD Graphics Lab, College of Engineering
Room 305, College of Engineering building
The AutoCAD Graphics lab features 20 Dell PC-compatible computers, 1 BSD workstation. Software includes AutoCad, Matlab, PSPICE, VLSI Design GIMP, Koffice, Netscape, Konqueror, Timidity, xcdplayer, xmp, Axyftp, gcc, and many other programs.

Civil Engineering Lab, College of Engineering
Room 307, College of Engineering building
The Civil Engineering lab features 20 Dell PC-compatible computers, 1 BSD workstation. Software includes AutoCad, Matlab, PSPICE, VLSI Design GIMP, Koffice, Netscape, Konqueror, Timidity, xcdplayer, xmp, Axyftp, gcc, and many other programs.

College of Engineering General Labs, College of Engineering
Room 304 and Room 314, College of Engineering building
The College of Engineering has its own computing laboratories with numerous state-of-the-art workstations. The lab in Room 304 features 20 Dell PC-compatible computers, 1 BSD workstation and Room 314 features 30 Dell PC-compatible computers, 3 BSD workstations, and 3 high-resolution and color scanners. Software includes AutoCad, Matlab, PSPICE, VLSI Design, LAN Workgroups (Telnet with ssh encrypted login, X Windows, and Netscape Navigator), Microsoft Office, Openoffice, and Scilab.  Laser printing is also available.

College of Engineering Hewlett-Packard/Workstation Lab, College of Engineering
Room 316, College of Engineering building
The Hewlett-Packard lab features 12 Unix-based workstations that can run IDEAS (3-D solids modeling), VLSI Design
ANSYS (Finite Element Modeling), C compiler, and FORTRAN compiler.

College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Labs, College of Liberal Arts
Anderson Hall
The College of Liberal Arts offers several labs in Anderson Hall that feature over 100 Dell Optiplex GX-70 PC-compatible computers.  All PCs have full product suites from Adobe, ESRI, Macromedia, and Microsoft.

Computer and Information Science (CIS) Labs, Department of Computer and Information Science
1st and 2nd floor, Wachman Hall
The CIS department offers students the use of several computer labs within Wachman Hall. Three operating systems are used in the computer labs. Room 104 features 30 systems running Redhat Linux 9.0. Rooms 108 and 209 each feature 30 systems running Windows XP. Rooms 200 and 215 feature 30 systems each, set up to dual-boot either to Redhat or Windows. Room 207 features 30 brand new Sun systems operating on the Solaris platform.

Geographic Information Systems Lab, Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Gladfelter Hall 336
This lab features 19, dual 3.02 GHz, multi-threading, Pentium Xeon workstations which are supported by a wide-range of associated peripheral devices for data input and extraction. Each workstation supports a full compliment of ESRI  and IDRISI GIS software applications together with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Macromedia MX Studio products for web-authoring and development. In addition to hardware and software, students, instructors and researchers have access to many datasets shared with the Social Science Data Library and the Temple-based Philadelphia Indicators Project. More data resides on the facility's dual 3.02 GHz Dell server.

Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Lab, Ambler Campus
Dixon Hall 108
This lab features 24 Dell Dimension 8200 Pentium 4 PCs, 1 HP DesignJet 800 42" Plotter, 1 HP Color LaserJet 5500N Printer, 1 HP ScanJet 6200 Flatbed Scanner, 1 Vidar TitanII 40" Large Format Scanner, and 1 Epson 11x17 Flatbed Scanner. Software includes Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Discreet 3D Studio VIZ 3.0, and Quark XPress 4.0.

Wachman Hall Student Computing Center (SCC), Temple University
Ground floor, Wachman Hall
The SCC is the main computer lab in Wachman Hall and is open to all Temple students, faculty and staff.  It features 99 Gateway PC-Compatible computers and 18 Apple Macintosh G4 computers.  All PCs have full Adobe, Macromedia, and Microsoft product suites and additional software such as MiniTab 13, SPSS for Windows, SimBiotic Software EcoBeaker 2.0, and Wolf Mathematica.

For a list of all computer labs at Temple University, please visit the Computer Services website.

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Software

The following software is available for GIS, spatial data analysis, and cartographic production.

• Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Adobe GoLive CS
• Adobe Illustrator CS
• Adobe InDesign CS
• Adobe Photoshop CS
• ESRI - ArcGIS (ArcInfo plus extensions)
• ESRI - ArcView 3.3
• Geoda
• GWR 3.0
• IDRISI Kiliminjaro
• Macromedia Contribute
• Macromedia Director
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Macromedia Flash
• SAS
• SpaceStat
• SPSS
   

In addition, Temple University has a site license agreement with the following software publishers:

• Adobe Systems, Inc.
• Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
• Macromedia, Inc.
• SAS Institute, Inc.
• SPSS, Inc.

For information about a particular license, please visit Computer Services Software Site Licensing Program webpage.

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