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School of Computer Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala Phone: +91-481-2731037

Facilities

The School is housed in an independent three-storied building. The building has a well-equipped conference hall, a seminar hall, two computer labs, library, classrooms, faculty rooms.

The School provides independent rooms for faculty members, technical staff and also a common room for students. The School also has a well-organized administrative office with computer facilities.

The students have access to the common facilities provided by the University like health center, canteens, hostels etc.

COMPUTING FACILITIES 

The School maintains two computing laboratories exclusively for the use of students and faculty members. Both the laboratories offer a wide range of computing facilities. Computers in the lab are connected through a LAN using structured cabling. Each faculty member is provided with a computer. 

Broadband Internet facility is available through the Campus Area Network

The admission procedure, preparation of examination results etc have been automated using software packages developed in the School.

HARDWARE:


 

  • SUN Ultra 10 Workstation 
  • Intel Xeon based Windows server
  • C2D, C2Q, Dualcore based PCs with minimum 512 MB RAM.

Besides these, the lab facilities include, 

  • Multimedia Projector
  • Color Scanner
  • Laser & Inkjet printers 
  • Multifunction device with photocopier, network printer and color scanner
  • Power supply backup with high capacity online UPS systems
SOFTWARE:

Operating Systems

  • Windows 7/Vista/ XP
  • SUN Solaris
  • Linux 

Applications

  • Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2005
  • Adobe Web Bundle
  • Macromedia Studio 
  • 3D Studio Max
  • Open GL
  • Java Workshop, Java Studio, Real PC etc. 

LIBRARY FACILITIES


The School Library has a very good collection of carefully selected text books, reference books and periodicals in a wide range of areas. In addition to the School's Library, students can avail books from the University Library which also has an extensive collection of books and journals in different areas of computer science. Journals include CACM, CAD, and some selected transactions from IEEE. 

This wide collection of books, journals, and reports should suffice to meet the greater part of students requirements in respect of both course reading and the more specialized material associated with individual research interest. In addition to the books and journals, there are special categories of material such as University thesis etc. Collections of research materials in CD-ROM are also available. Huge bibliographic data bases are available in CD-ROM and when circumstances warrant, research and post graduate students have been given access to computerized data bases on a world wide basis.

The C$$A also subscribes some computer magazines. The School's library also has a very good reading room.


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