Location: Chemical Sciences and Engineering Building (#19) Room 717

Regular hours: 24-hour lab access with MTU ID card

Telephone: 487-1758

System Administrator: Shane Crist

Office: 717A ChemSci
E-mail: chhelp at mtu.edu
Telephone: 370-7403

Operating system(s): XP, Sun Solaris

Computer type(s): PC, Sun Ray, Sun Workstation

Software: MS Office, Acrobat Reader, FireFox, GIMP, GAIM, GoogleEarth, CHEAQs, Pointgrp, Sigmaplot, LoggerPro, WinAMP, RealPlayer, QuickTime, KnowItAll, InterneTIFF, Innovue, Hyperchem, ChemSketch, GNMR, ACD Labs, Eudora, IrfanView, MathCad, Beilstein Commander, ChemDraw, DIRDIF, FTNMR, ISIS Draw, KyPlot 2.0, Mercury, MestRe-C, MestRe-C 2D, ORTEP-3, POV-RAY, RASMOL, SciFinder, Sir97, Intro to Spectroscopy, Struplo, WinGX, XHCORR, Shel-X, ChemTutor, Autodoc3, Autogrid3, Babel, Chemical Abstract System, Gaussian, Gv3, Gamess, Molden, Molekel

Hardware: Laser printer, large format plotter, high-resolution scanners

It is strongly advised that you continue to use your MTU e-mail account (username@mtu.edu) throughout your education at Michigan Tech. Important notices regarding billings, class schedules, and your major are communicated to students via these accounts.

Huskymail is available from any Web Browser. Point browser to huskymail.mtu.edu.  Thunderbird email client is available on all PC's - configuration instruction located http://email.mtu.edu/docs/public/settings.

You have a pre-assigned username, e-mail address, MTU ID # and ISO password that gives you access to computing services at MTU. These follow the standard naming conventions explained below. There may be exceptions—if you encounter problems, ask your lab consultant or system administrator for assistance.

Your username is…

• “1st initial + 2nd initial + 1st six letters of last name”
• Example: Edward George Greenleaf
• Username = “eggreenl”
  (Yours is listed on the critical card as your “UserID”)

Your MTU ID # is…

• Generally your "M number"
• MTU ID # = "M12345678"

Your e-mail address is…

• “username”@mtu.edu
• Example: Edward George Greenleaf
• E-mail address = “eggreenl@mtu.edu”
• For more info, go to login.mtu.edu

• Set by default to your MTU ID #
• Example: MTU ID # = "M12345678"
• Password = "M12345678"
• For more info, go to https://login.mtu.edu

For security reasons, it is strongly advised that you change your password the first time you login and periodically in the future as well.

For PC computers
1 - Type your username at the "User name:" prompt
2 - Type your password at the "Password:" prompt
3 - Click "OK"

For Sun computers
1 - Type your username at the prompt
2 - Type your password at the prompt

For PC computers
"CTRL-ALT-DEL", then click the "Change Password" button

For Sun computers
Within an X-term window type "passwd" and press enter; You will be prompted to enter the new password.

Accessing the World Wide Web

For PC computers
Select the "Netscape" or "Internet Explorer" icon from the start menu

Logging-off from your computer

For PC computers
1 - Double click the "logoff" icon

MTU Computer Policy

All students are expected to understand and abide by the University computer policy, which can be found at http://www.cec.mtu.edu/cacsec/info/cup_approved.pdf

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