Teaching laboratories

AC Department has a number of resources that meet the needs of laboratories of the subjects that are taught in FIB. In particular it is 3 laboratories, two of them (D6-003 and D6-003bis) work as a classroom teaching (laboratory classes are held) and the other works as a laboratory for End of Degree Projects (C6-001).

Classrooms teaching (D6-003 and D6-003bis)

The area of the two classrooms is 51 m2 each one.
Both classrooms have 25 terminals. The classroom D6-003 is equipped with PC with AMD Sempron 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, TFT color monitor 17" one of them is 21", used for people with visual impairments, and classroom D6-003bis with 25 PC with AMD Sempron 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, TFT color monitor 17". The PC also has 80GB internal hard drive. Each room is connected to a Tivoli server that allows to boot with images of Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux.
Both classrooms have a fixed projector, a command and screen wall.

Additional Equipment:

• 50 program licenses LogicWorks 4.0 and Logic Works 5.0 (it has been used in the practices of IC and AC subjects).
• routers CISCO 2611, CISCO 1721 5 routers, Cisco 2620XM Router 1, 2 CISCO 1841 routers, Cisco Catalyst 2950 7, 1 Cisco Catalyst 1900 and Cisco Catalyst switches C2950C 2. This equipment is mounted on two racks with wheels to carry easily in the laboratory when used. They have been used in the practice of networking subjects: XC XCA and PIAM.

Laboratory for End of Degree Projects

It is in the room C6-001 and is equipped in the following way:

• 4 PC Intel Core 2 Duo (HP) to 1.8 Ghz. with 2GB of RAM, DVD-RW. Monitor 17" color SVGA.
• 4 PC Pentium-4 of 64 bits (APD) at 3 GHz and 512 MB of RAM, DVD drive and drawer for removable disks. Monitor 17" color SVGA.
• 6 PC Core 2 Duo type (USP) at 2.4 GHz and 1 GB of RAM, DVD-RW. Monitor 17" color SVGA.
• 10 USB External Disks. (4 of 250 GB and 6 40GB).
• HP Laserjet 1, monochrome.

All the PCs in this room are connected to local network. The external network connection is via a server that makes captive Portal.

The maintenance of these teaching laboratories is carried out by ICT Services http://www.ac.upc.edu/serveis-tic/ DAC. The Teaching Laboratories responsible for the DAC is Professor Julita Corbalan.

The Department of Automatic Control  has three teaching laboratories:

• Electronic Design and Industrial Computing Laboratory, which has equipment for the design of hardware and software for prototypes and electronic systems. This laboratory is located in building C5 classroom C5-S202 of the North Campus.
• Systems and Automation Laboratory, which has prototypes of plants, industrial controllers, and computer-aided design and simulation tools. This laboratory is located in building C5 classroom C5-S202 of the North Campus.
• Computer Technology Teaching Laboratory. This laboratory is located in building C5 classroom C5-S203 of the North Campus.

 

Classrooms C5-S202 and C5-S203 has 15 and 12 equipments respectively with this characteristics:
PC Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16 GHz, 4 GB RAM, HP LA1951g LCD Monitor 19 ", DVD-ROM.

Tables have different models of oscilloscopes, power supplies and function generators for performing different practices.

The teaching laboratory of the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering is located in basement 1 of building A1 on the North Campus. It is shared with the ETSECCPB and the ETSETB, with a space of 86 m2 allocated to the FIB. In the FIB area there are two tables, each equipped for ten pairs of students, together with an additional extension for three more pairs.

Matías Ibarra is the technician in charge of the maintenance of the shared laboratories and he is assigned exclusively to the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering. The Department also has spaces for the revision of practical computer work on the second floor of buildings B4 and B5. For carrying out practical work, the following material is available (grouped according to the subjects it is used for):

Physics (F)

• Oscilloscopes: 5 HM-400 and 12 HM303-6 (Hameg)
• Function generators: 17 GF-232 (Promax).
• Power supplies: 34 model EP-613A (Blausonic).
• Leybold STE Systems for mounting electrotechnical and electronic circuits
• 12 Multímeters del model MX556 (Metrix) i 22del model MD-200 (Promax)
• 17 PCs
• HP laserjet 1010 Printer
• Mitsubishi XD280U

In addition there is auxiliary material (cables, connections, etc.), much of which has been specifically prepared for the practical work that is carried out (bobbins, Hall probes, diodes, etc.).

Physical Fundamentals of New Computer Technologies
There are two setups to enable teaching staff to perform demonstration experiments:

• Microwave (Leybold):1 Gunn oscillator, antenna, electrical field probe, accessories
• Laser (Leybold):He-Ne laser, optical bench, lenses and filters, accessories Further

Physics (AF)
There is a robotic arm that enables the practical work for this subject to be carried out. It is a manipulator with five degrees of freedom that is part of the “Lynxmotion” series. It is controlled through the serial port of a compatible PC system.

Finally, for the revision of the practical computer work for the various subjects, there are two Pentium II personal computers.