Computer accounts/e-mail

Engineering e-mail and listservs

LISTSERVS

The SEAS Office of Undergraduate Education in 410 Bonner Hall establishes a listserv system each year as a method for engineering faculty, staff, and students to communicate important events, course announcements, and news pertaining to your studies. As a student accepted into the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences you are automatically included on the list corresponding to your major through your IT e-mail account. Messages that pertain to all engineering students are sent to every student while those that are particular to a given major are sent accordingly. Students who are accepted into engineering as undecided majors (EAS) are included as appropriate.

In order to be sure that you are receiving these important and timely messages, we recommend that you link your IT account to your engineering account so you only have to check one account per day. Please follow the directions below in order to link your accounts.

The listservs are set up so that only approved faculty and staff can submit messages to the lists. This is why you will often see a lot of messages from the list administrator "Peggy Lane" on behalf of other individuals. Please be sure to read at least the subject heading and the first couple lines of every message. If it does not pertain to you, you can use your own authority do delete any unwanted messages from your account. It is important that you review briefly every message because this is our main method for communicating important course registration information that you will want to know about, changes in policies that probably affect you, and information on other deadlines and news that you NEED to know about. This is part of your responsibility as a student since you are now accountable for your own academic record (not us, not your school counselor, and not your parents).

If you have important information that you would like to share with others on the list or need to change the list that you are on, please send an e-mail message to Peggy Lane (palane@eng.buffalo.edu). Please note that simply changing the listserv that you receive mail on does not change your official major. To do this you should come in person to 410 Bonner Hall to speak with an advisor.

Linking your engineering and IT accounts

As a UB student you have already been given an IT computer account (http://www.cit.buffalo.edu/mail/). This general university account gives you access to MyUB, e-mail, the Internet, and other programs through the University's CIT services. In addition, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will also provide you with an Engineering account that you can learn more about online (http://www.sens.buffalo.edu/assistance/email.html); some of you will learn more about this account in EAS 140. This additional computer account will allow you to access other helpful engineering programs like MAPLE, Microstation, and ProEngineer. These accounts are very important since many (if not all) classes and departments post information through e-mail. Since you will receive mail at both accounts it will save you a lot of time and hassle if you link the two together. As an engineering student, we highly recommend that you forward your IT mail to your engineering account. To do so, browse to http://ldap.buffalo.edu/forward.html and follow the easy step-by-step directions.

Computer labs

For information on public computing sites and computer labs for engineering students in particular see:

http://www.cit.buffalo.edu/sites/public.html

http://wings.buffalo.edu/computing/it-environ/Labs.pdf

http://www.sens.buffalo.edu/infrastructure/labs/

Computer science e-mail and listservs

LISTSERVS

The Computer Science and Engineering Department in 251 Bell Hall maintains a listserv for computer science majors as a means for disseminating important information pertaining to required classes, internships, announcements, etc. For more information please consult directly with the department office in 251 Bell Hall.

CSE Computer Accounts

The CSE Department maintains its own e-mail system separate from the main servers provided by CIT. Some things work the same on the CSE systems as they do on the CIT system, other things work differently. Start by reading the "Servers" section at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/local/Consulting/email/ so you understand where e-mail sent to you at your CSE address (username@cse.buffalo.edu) will go. The "Clients" section will help you get started sending and reading the e-mail. The other sections provide information on more advanced use of the e-mail system.

Facilities

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/local/Facilities.html