There are over 250 available computers that are available for use and installed with all of the software you may need to complete your coursework. There are 140 machines running Windows available to all engineering students in Eaton with the remaining 100 or so machines being split up for departmental use. See our Computer Labs page for locations, installed software, and rules governing the labs.

These print services include color and large format printing, but are restricted to course related printing. However, if you need a poster printed for your research, we offer that service at a minimal charge of $6.50.

In addition to academic printing services, we offer local printer support for staff, faculty, student groups, and research groups via help request for over fifty networked printers and countless directly attached printers.

We previously offered hosting services for student groups, faculty, and research groups, but we no longer do so as these services are better offered by other groups within the University of Kansas.

If you wish to have a personal site, KU offers personal hosting with an address of the form: people.ku.edu/~[your online id]. To enable this, you simply need to turn on the service by logging into myidentity.ku.edu and adding the Personal Web Space service to your account. Additionally, that page will offer information on how to connect to, and setup your Website.

If you are student group seeking hosting, the Student Involvement and Leadership Center offers 200MiB of space on groups.ku.edu. You simply have to have a registered student group and send an e-mail to orgs.ku.edu.

If you are a researh group/lab or any other organization (including a class) seeking Web hosting, you can request hosting by completing the Information Technology Account Request Form with your group's specific needs.

For specific information, feature requests, or bug reports please see the graduate student area of the Website or contact the graduate programs group directly.

This service is offered via Windows shares (Mapped drive letters) through our storage area network. Data placed in these shares are regularly backed up.

If you require access to an existing share, or wish to create a new shared storage area for your group, please do so by submitting a help request. This shared storage is available off campus as well via KU Anywhere. Please see our knowledge base for instructions on accessing it.

In addition to our shared storage, the Univerity offers Hawk Drive. Hawk Drive is a combination of both personal and shared storage, and gives everyone access to 1 GiB of shared storage that can be shared with both on and off campus users. We have provided instructions on how to share files at our knowledge base.

This storage space is offered as the U drive, and on managed computers the Desktop and My Documents are also kept on the U. This data is backed up regularly, but students and employees who do not remain actively enrolled/employed will have this data removed at semester breaks. Your data is also available remotely via SFTP (see Remote File Access section).

This storage space is not limited in size, but abuses are actively monitored.

In addition to our personal storage, the Univerity offers Hawk Drive. Hawk Drive is a combination of both personal and shared storage, and gives everyone access to 1 GiB of shared storage that can be shared with both on and off campus users.

This includes license servers such as FlexLM or USB dongle type software licensing schemes that can allow one or more different users to be accessing the software at a time. If you need this service for an application you are using for research, let us know, and we will be happy to help you get it setup.

Sharepoint offers shared calendars, documents, todo lists, and Wikis. You can access this service by going to our Sharepoint site (accessible anywhere), and if you do not currently have a sharepoint site setup, please request a group to be setup on the system. You can also request access to an existing group the same way.

If you are an employee, you can access all of your personal and shared storage by using KU Anywhere and following the instructions listed in our knowledge base for getting everything setup.

If you are not an employee, or you are unable to use KU Anywhere, we provide access to our storage via SFTP at sftp.engr.ku.edu. You can use a client such as WinSCP (Windows), FileZilla (Mac), or GFTP (Linux/UNIX) to access your data. Just use your KU Online ID and password with the aforementioned sftp.engr.ku.edu as the server. See our instructions for more information.

We make all of our source code available via our Trac site to anyone with a KU Online ID. We generally write software in Python, Powershell, and VBScript, but are capable with several other languages.

Although we generally do not provide contract type software development, we can—and do—write software to meet School and Departmental needs. If you think you are in need of a custom Web application, please feel free to make a request and we can help you determine whether we can provide this service via an existing solution, or if there is a need to write a custom application.