General Information

This section contains information of general interest in the department.

Department

• History
• Facts
• Driving Directions to Department
• Office and Lab Space (2015)
• Instructional Labs (2015)
• Dept. Overview 2013 (1.9 MB PPT by Mike Green)
• About the EECS Portal (this site)
• Accreditation (undergraduate):  EE (1968- present), CpE (1994-preset), CSE (2009-present)

Faculty and Staff

• Directory of senate faculty, emeriti, and adjunct
• Awards and Honors
• Staff history

Facilities

• Printers, copiers, scanners, fax (Xerox WorkCentre 7855) in the business office
• Instructional Servers
• Department-licensed software packages on Sparc server
• 3D printers at FabWorks (HSSoE and CalIT2) and 3D Printing Pilot Service (UCI Library) 

Software License

• Software with Site License, including
  • MatLab student version, Octave, LabView, Mathematica
  • SolidWorks for faculty and researchers, for student non-engineers and engineers
  • AutoCad
  • VMWare

Server and Cloud Based Apps

• UCI Google Apps, including
  • UCI Gmail, UCI Google Docs (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation),  
• Gitlab server (on Engineering, available to anyone with UCInetID)
• Online Data Storage
  • WebFiles, UCI Google Drive (unlimited space for faculty).
• Website Authoring: 
  • General: UCI Google Sites, UCI Sites (WordPress) -- both with blogging capability
  • Courses: EEE Canvas, EEE, Google Classroom 
  • Creating an electronic poll or survey on EEE or Google Forms
• Virtual Private Network (VPN) for off-campus access
• Recording lectures and post them online: UCI Replay or professional recording
• Campus Software License Agreements

Computing Tutorials

• Setup for newbie, including WiFi, UCInetID, Unix accounts on instructional servers
• Unix tutorial (assuming instructional server)
  • Logging in to your Unix account
    • Applying for an account
    • Software and commands for remote login
    • Unix shell
  • Unix Guide
    • Getting Started
    • Basic shell commands
    • Files
  • Secure shell (SSH) public and private keys
• Text editors
  • vi and vim
  • emacs
• Typesetting system
  • LaTeX
  • BibTeX
  • Useful packages: UCI Thesis Template, IEEE Transactions, ACM Journal, ACM Conference
• Programming 
  • Python
  • C
  • Java
  • ​MatLab
  • GnuPlot
  • ​Raspberry Pi
  • Arduino
• Version control
  • GIT
  • Subversion (SVN)
  • Concurrent versioning system (CVS)
• 3D modeling
  • SolidWorks
  • Sketchup