Multimedia Lab

The College offers students and faculty robust electronic and computing resources in conjunction with IIT’s Office of Technology Services. There is wireless access (802.11b/g) in all College controlled spaces.

The COA continues to provide wired network connections when appropriate for student and faculty use and all faculty offices, studio spaces, the Library and COA computer labs are hard-wired.

In Fall 2006, the College opened the second of two 30-plus computer labs and instruction spaces.  Lab specifications are note below but all of the PCs include a variety of software products that support curricula aims of architecture faculty. The College employs a three-year refreshment program meaning that every three years all Lab hardware is upgraded.  Both labs as noted below contain printers and, in fact, each building that COA inhabits includes output functionality including b/w and color printers and plotters for larger format documents. These machines are maintained and supplied the COA thus ensuring timely repair and regular stocking of paper and ink.

Crown Hall Hardware

Printers: 2 HP LaserJet 9040N, 1 HP Color LaserJet 5550N

Plotters: 1 DesignJet 5500PS, 1 DesignJet 4500PS, 1 DesignJet 500GL

Scanners: Paradigm ImagePro GxT 42HD Large Format Scanner

AVSystems: 1 Sanyo Proxtrax Overhead Projector

Computer Model: Dell Precision 390

Number of Machines: 34

Operating System: Windows XP SP3

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2.4GHz 4MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB

Memory: 4GB DDR2 667MHz

Graphics Card: ATI Fire GL V7200 256MB

DVD/CD Drive: 16X DVD +/-RW, DVD/CD Burner

Floppy: NEC 1.44MB

Sound Card: SigmaTel Audio

NIC: Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Ethernet

Monitor: Dell 19 inch UltraSharp Flat Panel LCD

Keyboard: Dell USB Keyboard

Mouse: Dell USB 2-Button Optical

3410 S. State St. Hardware

Printers: 1 HP Color LaserJet 5550N, 1 HP LaserJet 8150N

Plotters: 2 HP DesignJet 5500PS

AVSystems: 1 Sanyo Proxtrax Overhead Projector

Computer Model: Dell Precision T3400

Number of Machines: 24

Operating System: Windows XP SP3

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9350, 2.66GHz 6MB L2 Cache, 1333mhz FSB

Memory: 4GB DDR2 800MHz

Graphics Card: nVidia Quadro FX 1700 512 MB

DVD/CD Drive: 16x DVD +/-RW, DVD/CD Burner

Media Reader: 5 in 1 Card Reader

Sound Card: Integrated Sigmatel High Definition Audio

NIC: Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Ethernet

Monitor: Dell 19 inch UltraSharp Flat Panel LCD

Keyboard: Dell USB Keyboard

Mouse: Dell USB 2-Button Optical