Lab Policy

Engineering Computing provides its students, faculty and staff with state-of-art computing facilities in its open access labs and computer classrooms. Any USF student with a NET Id can use the computer services. Computers are provided for students to bona-fide course work only. Its important for students to read our lab policies and related information before using computers in the open access labs and classrooms.

Security Patches and Updates

The security web site @ USF was created to help increase the security awareness amongst USF students, faculty, and staff. In it you will find information on the latest virus, vulnerabilities affecting different operating systems, as well as tools and hints that will help making your computer and your server a bit safer.

Account Usage

Engineering Computing builds and maintains several high-performance servers for compute-intense applications of students and faculty. Graduate and Undergraduate students are provided with limited space on these servers. Students should use this space for bona-fide course work only. If you need an increase in the space provided to you send an email to Jamie Fargen, with your user id, and the reason for the required increase in quota.

ENG Security Information

We will be implementing some security changes for the Fall semester. Because of the rise of attempts and exploits we are going to be blocking the following ports: 135-139, 445, and 1433. We will be blocking both TCP and UDP ports. What this means to you is that you will no longer be able to map or connect to the ENG network in the traditional manner. Please see your department tech for details.