Instructional Computer Labs | Fort Lauderdale Campus

The Instructional Computer Lab is available to all faculty and staff wishing to teach courses or hold seminars in computer-equipped facilities.

This lab is permanently equipped with different types of multimedia equipment. For example, they all have ceiling-mounted projectors and computers, and document cameras, among other features and/or capabilities.

For more information about the Fort Lauderdale Campus Instructional Computer Lab, please contact Joe Sher (Academic Computer Labs Manager) at 954-762-5194.

Hardware Available

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Overall, there are five instructional computer labs in the Fort Lauderdale campus, featuring a total of 45 PCs and 57 Macs. Below is a description of the facility:

Room	Qty.	PC Type	OS	Memory	Hard Drive	Processor
HEC-608	25	Dell Precision T3610	Windows 10	16 GB	2 TB SATA	3.7 GHz Intel Xeon
HEC-911	20	Dell Precision T3600	Windows 10	16 GB	446 GB SSD	3.6 GHz Intel Xeon
HEC-914	20	Apple iMacs	MacOS 10.15	8 GB	1 TB SATA	3.2 GHz Quad I5
HEC-918	20	Apple iMacs	MacOS 10.15	16 GB	1 TB SATA	R9 M380 AMD 2 GB
HEC-1009	17	Apple iMacs	MacOS 10.15	16 GB	1 TB SATA	3.4 GHz Quad I5

Software Available

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Faculty members who need to request additional software in a classroom or in a computer lab should submit a request via the FAU Help Desk at least 30 days in advance. If the software is not licensed through OIT, the department or college may be required to provide software licenses. The following is a list of software packages available in the instructional computer labs.

Software Package	HEC-608	HEC-911	HEC-914	HEC-918	HEC-1009
Adobe Acrobat Pro	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Adobe Creative Cloud Suite CC	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Browsers: Safari, FireFox, & Chrome	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Autodesk Maya	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
MS-Office Professional Plus 2019	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Autodesk Revit	✔	✔
Rhinoceros	✔	✔
Sketchup	✔	✔