Director of Instructional Laboratories: Dennis
Sweeney
Phone: 231-4871
The ECE staff supports departmental teaching labs, research labs, computer systems, building(s) access, building renovation, building maintenance, machine work and Engineering consulting.
The ECE Technical Support Team has a Helpdesk website at http://helpdesk.ece.vt.edu
Log in using your Virginia Tech PID and password to create a trouble ticket or Tech Support request.
The primary functions of ECE Lab Support are:
- Maintain, supervise and teach undergraduate labs
- Maintain laboratory parts inventory, and a variety of teaching lab parts inventory
- Distribute and repair student projects kits (approximately 600 kits go in/out each semester)
- Supervise and train laboratory teaching assistants
- Coordinate network access: Department
Network Information Page
- Issue network addresses
- Acts as liaison between CNS network and Department
- Assists with high speed modem pools
- Arrange for network port installation in offices and labs
Additional ECE Department support functions include:
- Support Department networked file services
- Provide web pages and web server
- Assist research with special needs:
- Repair and calibrate lab instruments
- Fabricate and machine custom parts
- Provide a Departmental machine shop for faculty and staff