Albion   College   Mathematics and Computer Science

Facilities

Palenske Hall houses the Mathematics Department. It is one of the three buildings in Albion College's Science Center, completed in 1969, and named for Fred C. Palenske.

The Mathematics Department is equipped with a variety of computational facilities available to students without charge. The E. R. Sleight Computing Laboratory contains a network of six workstations and several additional terminals to this network. These 450MHz Pentium III microcomputers run individually or in parallel under the Linux operating system. They are connected with 100Mbs Ethernet for fast data transmission. This facility is used by upper-level computer science students. A variety of high-level programming languages is available, including Ada, Basic, C, C++, Fortran, Java, Pascal, Prolog, Scheme, and Smalltalk.

The Math/Stat Computing Laboratory is designed especially for students enrolled in mathematics, statistics, and computer science. The computer laboratory features twenty 200 MHz Pentium microcomputers running Windows 98. Each has 64 MB of RAM. A 1200 dpi high speed laser printer is available for high-resolution graphics and typesetting. Statistics students routinely analyze data with the Minitab statistical analysis program; the use of graphing calculators and the computer algebra systems Mathematica and Maple are integrated into precalculus, calculus, and higher-level mathematics courses.

These laboratories are part of Albion Campus-wide computer network connecting faculty offices, dormitory rooms, classrooms, laboratories, public computer areas, printers, and the library automation system. From computers on the network, students can access their files, run software on the campus network, interact with other computers, send electronic mail, and browse the World Wide Web.

Modified July 31, 1998, by David Reimann
Modified August 14, 1999, by Robert Messer