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Technical & Laboratory Services


Reporting to the Director of Information Services, the Information Technology Service group provides support for:
over 850 Undergraduate students
over 260 Graduate students
44 Full-time Academic staff
7 Part-time Academic staff
15 Full-time Professional staff
for ECE teaching programs and research activities.


IT Services and Support:

A pplication & Tools (CAD) Teaching support
B ackbone connectivity for research & academic activities
C oordination (with other McGill units)
D esktop installation, maintenance & lab setup for teaching
I ntegration with/of Campus Active Directory, including email
N etwork and computer security
S pecial projects
S ystem planning
U nix servers setup, administration and maintenance
U ser data backup and restore
U ser support for Undergraduate Program
V irus protection
W eb serving
W indows servers setup, administration and maintenance
W ireless connectivity add on services

For more information please consult IT Services

Hardware supported:

Departmental Windows servers: 4
Departmental UNIX servers: 6
Research UNIX servers: 10
Undergraduate lab machines: 210
Research UNIX / Linux machines: 18
Graduate student and research lab windows machines: approx. 200
Staff desktop machines and laptops: 15