| The Information Systems Group currently
maintains and provides support for the College of Engineering World
Wide Web services. These services are divided into two main areas:
Design Services:
- The Information Systems is responsible for all aspects of the
design and maintenance of the College of Engineering web site
(www.engr.psu.edu).
This web site was recently given a complete overhaul and many
interactive and dynamic elements were added. These include: News
& Events section, Weekly Electronic Newsletter, News Archive
search, etc.
- We have designed various web applications that integrate one
or more databases. Some of these applications include: Engineering
Advising Center On-Line Calendar, Course Pre-Requisite Check,
Faculty Self Report of Activity, Senior Exit Survey System, etc.
Hosting Service:
- We are responsible for the hosting and security of the College
of Engineering web site (www.engr.psu.edu).
- We host 12 other web sites for departments and Engineering units
such as: Electrical Engineering (www.ee.psu.edu), Aerospace Engineering
(www.aero.psu.edu),
Nanofabrication Center (www.nanofab.psu.edu),
etc.
- We manage various levels of security for the web sites hosted
on our server. Most of these web sites require distributed authoring
environment where one or more web author may have access to the
site, or portions of a site. Security is implemented through share-level
permissions and web authors MUST have an Engineering domain account.
Benefits of Designing/Hosting with
Information Systems:
There are a number of benefits in hosting your department's or
group's web site with Information Systems:
Expertise: We are highly experienced in many aspects
of website design and hosting. From simple website design to large
scale, database driven, dynamic website—we can handle it all.
We are proficient in:
- Active Server Pages Design (.NET and classic ASP)
- Database Integration (Utilizing SQL 2000 — see Database
services)
- JavaScript
- VBScript
- Visual Basic Development Environment (.NET and classic VB)
- AND MORE...
Peace of Mind: When you host your website with
the Information Systems, you can achieve peace of mind as far as
your website is concerned. Our webservers have built-in redundancy,
as well as nightly backups to retrieve data in case of failure.
Security: We provide various levels of security,
which include but not limited to: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption
for sensitive data, password protected access to sensitive information,
tight share-level access control for website authors, and more.
ALL website authors to any content on our web server must have current
Engineering Domain account, and must connect through share-level—not
through FTP. Any student requesting access to author a particular
website must have the faculy advisor contact us authorizing access.
Top-Notch Hardware/Software: When it comes to
serving your website, we use only top-of-the-line hardware and software.
Our DELL servers are poweful enough to take heavy hits for your
website. Hardware and software on our primary webserver include:
- Quad (4) Intel 2.0GHz Processors
- One (1) GB of RAM
- RAID Level 5 and Dual Power Supply for redundancy
- Five (5) 73 GB SCSI Hard Drives — plenty of space for
your content
- Tape Backup
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Internet Information Services
- SSL certificate for encryption
- Other software components such as ASPUpload
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