Computer plays an important role in automation and design. Therefore, the Department intends to provide the best computing facilities for our students and researchers.

The Department has two computing laboratories, the General Computing Laboratory and the Multimedia Computing Laboratory. The General Computing Laboratory has 56 Intel-based desktop computers. The Laboratory also offers a wide range of licensed software packages, from general purposes computing, computer programming, computer graphics, to special engineering applications.

The Multimedia Computing Laboratory was established in September 2004. This new laboratory has 26 high-ended Intel-based computers with addition software applications for multimedia computing, including 3D modeling and rendering, audio and video editing, etc.

Both laboratories are equipped with LCD projector and color laser printer. We have also installed surveillance cameras and electronic access control system for the laboratories so the laboratories can be open 7 x 24 hours safely.

Our computer network consists of more than 300 servers, workstations, desktop computers, network printers and other network devices. All these devices are connected to the Department network backbone, which was upgraded to Gigabit Ethernet in August 2004 to improve the capacity and performance of our computer network.

Our computer network connects to the Internet via the University's Campus backbone network at Gigabit speed. We have installed firwalls and anti-virus systems to protect our network from various security threats.