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The Undergraduate Research Lab provides a facility for undergraduate students to pursue research projects that cannot be supported in the instructional laboratories, but for which other research laboratory facilities are either not available or not appropriate for some reason. Facilities in the Ugrad Research Lab are Intel PCs. By default either Windows or Linux is installed, but other needs can be accomodated.
Authorization to use the lab typically requires several things:
- The work is for credit, e.g., current enrollment in CSE 498 or 4991.
- Sponsorship by a CSE faculty member.
- A brief description of the nature of the project.
- A brief description of what unusual facilities are required, and an estimate of the duration. (By "unusual facilities" we mean everything that differs from the standard instructional lab setup -- hardware, software, and use policies.)
- Approval of the CS Lab Director.
Access is granted for one quarter at a time, and can be renewed, provided all of the above requirements continue to be met.
Physical access to the lab is restricted to authorized users.
Typically, use of the Undergrad Research Laboratory does not require payment of Computer Science Recharge Center (CSRC) Lab Fees, because this facility does not use any CSRC-supported resources. If, however, an undergraduate does require access to any of the CSE research resources or facilities for their project, then payment of CSRC Lab fees will normally be required, and is the responsibility of the faculty sponsor.
The faculty sponsor should send mail to lundberg@cs, with the full name and username of the student, the nature of the project, and a brief description of why use of the lab is necessary.
The student should fill out an Computer Account Form. The checkbox for Ugrad Research Lab should be checked, and the signatures of both the faculty sponsor and the student are required. The completed form can be turned in at the Support Office (CSE 260) or the CSE Main Office (CSE 101).
Once approved, cardkey access will be provided, and machine login authorization and information will be provided.
Every effort is made to allocate a dedicated machine to each project. So typically, you will have access only to one machine, but it will be your machine (or your group's machine) exclusively, for the duration of your use of the lab.
Standard undergraduate accounts can be used for logging in (CSEPCLAB or Instructional Unix), although access to these particular machines requires an additional authorization step in order to work (after approval). Thus, you will use your regular password to gain access, and will have access to all the usual account resources that are available in the instructional labs (e.g., files and printing).
Unlike machines in the instructional laboratories, the software on the machines in the Ugrad Research Lab is not locked and is "refreshed" on a regular basis. So students can install special software on these machines that will not be removed by any automated or regular process. Regular Windows Updates and Unix security updates (patches) will be applied to these machines. If some software is discovered on these machines that appears to present a security risk or otherwise violate University policies, we will remove that software first, and/or disable network or account access for the machine, and ask questions later!
Like the machines in the instructional labs, users do have admin privileges on the Windows machines, but do not have root access on the Unix machines. If software package requires root access in order to be installed on a Unix machine, the Support Group should be contacted for assistance.
Special hardware may be added to the lab, typically provided by the faculty sponsor.
1CSE 498/499 requirement may be waived if maximum credit limit has been reached.
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Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington Box 352350 Seattle, WA 98195-2350 (206) 543-1695 voice, (206) 543-2969 FAX [comments to Erik Lundberg] |