Tutorials are scheduled for nearly all ECE departmental courses. These provide an opportunity for the student to discuss assignments, course material, etc. with the teaching assistant or instructor. Make good use of these opportunities. This page includes the following information:

• Disk Quotas
• Laboratory Resourses
• Computing Resourses

Each term several courses will have associated laboratories. These may involve hardware experiments, computer exercises, projects, or combinations of these activities. Details will be provided by the instructor at the start of the term. The laboratory component must be completed to obtain a grade in the course; they are not optional. The labs will be scheduled after the course begins. You can schedule your labs around your elective.

Each laboratory is staffed by a lab instructor and usually one or more graduate or undergraduate teaching assistants (TA's). The undergraduate TA's are third or fourth year co-op students with a good understanding of the course material.

To complete the lab exercises, budget your time carefully. Students often leave too many of the labs until late in the term, making it very difficult to complete them all. Sometimes too much time is spent on the lab in one course, either because it is enjoyable or too difficult, to the detriment of other courses. If you have trouble budgeting your time, talk to Engineering Counselling who would be happy to offer you suggestions.

The department has an Electronics Store (third floor of E2) from which students may obtain materials for laboratories and projects.

Information about computer and other related resources may be found on the Engineering Computing page.

Disk Quotas

The Quota Administrator (Bernie Roehl) deals with all issues associated with disk quotas. The current quotas for Undergraduate Students are:

Year	Memory	Comments
1st	50 MiB
2nd	100 MiB
3rd	150 MiB
4th	200 MiB	valid for four months after graduation
Graduates	0 MiB	starts four months after graduation

Requests for a higher disk quota will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Non-academic media (videos, music, etc.) will not be accommodated.

Laboratory Resources

The following laboratories are available for student use:

E2-2366

WARG Robotics Group

E2-3352

Second & Third Year Student Lounge

E2-3353

Fourth Year Student Lounge

E2-3353A

ASIC Student Group

E2-3353B

IEEE Student Group

E2-4402

Ham Club

Computing Resources

The computers available in the various rooms are:

E2-2356

28 stations for SE 141 and ECE 223

E2-2363

26 stations for ECE 222, ECE 354, ECE 355, and ECE 427

E2-2364

28 stations for ECE 222, ECE 324, ECE 325, ECE 427

E2-3341

16 stations

CPH 1333

Power laboratory

The ECE Computing Resource page is located at http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~mach_www/.

Information about the client usage is located at http://ieee.uwaterloo.ca/clients/.

Information about the printer status is located at http://ieee.uwaterloo.ca/printers/.

Information about the Nexus load and status is located at http://ieee.uwaterloo.ca/Nexus/.