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PSUAE Computer Recommendation
| Find out what it takes to stay ahead of the game in your AE classes

User Profile Information
| Learn how to maintain your profile, and create a new one if yours becomes corrupt

Lab Computer Availability
| View computer usage in real time in chart form and through live video feeds

Remote Desktop, and Lab Software
| Get a listing of software and hardware available in all AE computer labs, plus find Remote Desktop information

Autodesk Software
| Free Autodesk software titles available to AE Students (PSU registration required)

Microsoft Software
| Free Microsoft software titles available to AE Students (AE registration required)

Penn State Hosted Software
| Free software titles available to All PSU Students

Adobe Connect at Penn State
| Penn State's Electronic Collaboration System - Open to all Students, Faculty, Staff, and Friends of Penn State Accounts.

Lab Schedules
| Look at the schedules for the AE Computer Labs to see when they are available

Lab Assistants
| View a list of personnel available to help you in the AE Computer Labs

Printer Balance and Statement
| View your printer balance, also create an exhaustive one month printing summary

Mapping Network Drives and Printers
| Print to lab printers and access common network locations, such as P: and Y:, using your personal laptop wirelessly or desktop from home

Software Help
| Get technical help for the software and hardware available to all AE students

Wireless and WPA Help
| Get technical help for the wireless networks set up in Sackett, the HUB, Hammond and the Units

VPN Help
| Get technical help for the VPN software required for wireless, the U-Drive and licence servers

O:\ Drive Help
| Get technical help for running programs off the O-Drive such as AutoCAD 2005

FAQ
| View a list of frequently asked questions

Welcome to Penn State's Architectural Engineering Computer and Account Information Website

Having a problem with viruses, spyware or adware? Get your computer cleaned up and (or) make sure it stays clean! Click here (https://downloads.its.psu.edu) to visit the university's licensed software and freeware/shareware download site. You'll need to enter your userid and password but the software is free. Also included are connectivity programs (including the VPN), e-mail clients, file transfer programs, web browsers and more.

Want free software? MSDN Academic Alliance Software Center is offering a variety of free software to students. Programs like Visual Studio, Windows Vista Business, and MS Project 2007 are available along with many more. Click here to log in.

User Account Passwords:

PSUAE is now using your Penn State username and Password. Log into the lab computers using your Penn State credentials, and log onto "dce.psu.edu" in the drop-down "log onto" box.

If logging onto a Windows Vista computer, use "[email-masked]" (abc123 being your PSU username) with your PSU password to log on.

PSU ID card access:

Grads - 307, 308, 2nd Floor Unit A, NW exterior Sackett entrance
5th yrs - 307, 308, 330, 331, 332, 333, NW exterior Sackett entrance
4th yrs - 307, 308, 3rd Floor Unit A, NW exterior Sackett entrance
3rd yrs - 307, 308, NW exterior Sackett entrance
2nd yrs - 307, 308, 3rd Floor Unit A, NW exterior Sackett entrance
Others - 307, 308
Access to 310 must be approved by faculty

Lost ID cards are replaced with a new id card that has a different 16 digit number on the front and thus will not allow you to access our doors, please email the new number to Corey Wilkinson for updating. SSNs are no longer used for card access.

Storage:

P:\ drive - personal storage. Notification may be given at 90% capacity. Lockout will occur at 100% which means files can be deleted but not saved.

Grads - 1 GB (Need More? Click here)
5th yrs - 1 GB
4th yrs - 1 GB
3rd yrs - 1 GB
2nd yrs - 1 GB
Others - 1 GB

Unless notice is given prior, P drives carry from year to year.

Y:\ drive - public storage. Notification may be given at 90% capacity. Lockout will occur at 100% which means files may be deleted but not saved.

All users are allotted 1 GB. All files will be deleted from the Y:\ drive one week after every semester.

All files on the Y drive are available to all users! If there are concerns about other users seeing your files, you can a)Store them on your P drive, or b)Read about how to secure files on the Y drive and make them accessible to only the people you want to have access here.

O:\ drive - software. CDs and software can be installed to wireless personal laptops and grad PCs, as well as student home PCs.

Profiles:

Profile storage includes roaming desktop shortcuts, favorites, wallpaper...etc. To see how much space you have left, double click the "Profile Size" icon in the Start Menu to display profile total size and file sizes.

To decrease your profile size:
Go to My Computer - C:\Documents and Settings\Username (e.g. pab125)
Then go to Tools-Folder Options-View-Show hidden and system files and folders
All folders in your profile should be visible. Delete files from cookies, my documents, history, temp internet folders...etc. Files should not be saved in the default 'My documents' location or on the desktop, this increases your profile space and network logon time. Use your P:\ drive instead of My Documents. To limit the amount of disk space, go to Internet Explorer-Tools-Internet Options-General-Temporary Internet Files-Settings.

Printing:

Printing credits for each user for each semester are as follows. Grads and 5th yrs have $40. 4th through 1st yrs have $20. The initial printing credit is issued after the first print job of each semester. If you haven't printed anything, you won't have a printing balance.

Printing credit can be purchased in 101 Engineering Unit A, Engineering Copy Center from 8:30 AM- 4:30 PM Monday through Friday. You can click here to see an online printing balance status page.

Printing balance will not be refunded, and does not carry into the following academic year! Do not purchase more credit than you plan on using by the academic year's end. For example, credit purchased in October 2008 will carry into April 2009. However, no credit will be refunded at the end of the Spring semester, regardless of when it was purchased, or how much was lost. Purchase accordingly!

To view printers, types, locations:
Go to Start-Printers and Faxes, then go to View-Details.
Print308 is the printer located in 308 Sackett
Color308 is the color printer located in 308 Sackett
Plot308 is the plotter located in 308 Sackett
(similar for remaining printers)

Software & Hardware:

Software available in the PSUAE computer labs is listed here.
Webcams and microphone headsets are furnished upon request
Scanners are in 307 and 333 Sackett, 105 and 227 Engineering Unit A
DVD burners are in 307 and 308 Sackett, and 227 Engineering Unit A
Digital cameras, digital video cameras and laptops can be signed out from 104 Engineering Unit A

Wireless:

Students that have personal laptops are now able to connect to PSUAE and run most of the software. For a list of minimum system requirements for various software titles, click here.

To see a map of wireless coverage in the area, click here. To see a detailed list of wireless coverage, click here.

Recently, the College of Engineering's Electronic and Computer Services (ECS) unit completed the installation of secure wireless networking systems in all COE buildings on the University Park campus, including: Hammond, EE East, EE West, Engineering Units A, B and, C, Sackett, Reber, Fenske, Hallowell, Leonhard, Earth and Engineering Sciences, Research East, Research West and Cato Park.

Logging off & Security:

Users should log off to prevent P:\ drive and printing balance access by others. Click Start-Log Off.

Security cameras record activities 24 hours a day. Card access logs are recorded 24 hours a day. Printing logs are recorded 24 hours a day. Faculty has access to all P:\ and Y:\ drives. PSU security monitors mass emails and bandwidth usage.

AE Computer Lab Ghosting:

Don't be caught with lost work due to lab ghosting. Check the ghosting schedule and try to avoid using the scheduled computers during their scheduled ghosting time. Ghosting is performed once each month to each computer to keep it running clean and fast.

Additional questions:

If you have any questions that were not addressed or answered sufficiently, please go to our lab assistants page and contact one of the assistants.

This page was designed by Aaron Sanders
It is written and maintained by Paul Bowers and John Pillar
© 2001 Architectural Engineering Department
Last updated on Wednesday, March 9, 2005