Grant from Student Technology Fee program will provide new computers, server, and 3-D printer for BIOE student labs
August 95, 2010 | UW Bioengineering
Grant from Student Technology Fee program will provide new computers, server, and 3-D printer for BIOE student labs
UW Bioengineering has received nearly $60,000 in grant funding through the university’s Student Technology Fee program—with three grants allowing the department to upgrade the computers, file server, and 3D printer available to students in BIOE. Norbert Berger, computing services manager for the department, wrote proposals for the department to secure the grants.
A grant of $11,600 will fund a new student file server with 10 terabytes of space, allowing students’ allocation of file space on the server to increase from 2 gigabytes per person to about 50 gigabytes. The additional space will help students deal with course-related files that often take up more than a gigabyte of space.
A $46,725 grant will help the department replace the 35 computers in its student computer lab with new machines. The lab is devoted entirely to student computing needs, and the lab is currently using computers that are four years old and out of warranty.
Last, a grant of $1,100 will fund the purchase of a three-dimensional printer for the student computer lab. BIOE students do not have access to a machine shop for creating prototypes of materials or devices. The three-dimensional printer will allow students to use CAD software to design their materials, and then create those materials using the printer.
