2002-2003 General Information: Facilities and Services

Teaching and research facilities at HSSEAS are in Boelter Hall, Engineering I, and Engineering IV, located in the south of campus. Boelter Hall houses classrooms and laboratories for undergraduate and graduate instruction, the Office of Academic and Student Affairs (http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/), the HSSEASnet computer facility (http://www.seas.ucla.edu/seasnet/), and offices of faculty and administration. The SEL/Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Library is also in Boelter Hall. Additional faculty offices and laboratories, the Water Resources Center Archives, the Shop Services Center, and the Student and Faculty Shop are in the Engineering I building.

Library Facilities

University Library System

The UCLA Library, a campuswide network of libraries serving programs of study and research in many fields, is among the top 10 ranked research libraries in the U.S. Total collections number more than 7.5 million volumes, and more than 93,000 serial titles are received regularly.

Science and Engineering Library

Collections and services of the Science and Engineering Library (SEL) support research and programs in all HSSEAS departments and in Atmospheric Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Earth and Space Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Statistics, and related institutes. The main SEL site houses the engineering, mathematics, astronomy, and atmospheric sciences collections, most public service staff and librarians, and divisions for administration, cataloguing, collection development, public services, and interlibrary loan. Chemistry, geology-geophysics, and physics collections are in separate buildings.

The SEL collection contains over 559,000 volumes, subscriptions to almost 7,000 current serials, and over 4,000,000 technical reports. Online and in-person reference assistance is provided weekdays.

Faculty, staff, and students can e-mail questions to the library at sel-ref@library.ucla.edu.

The library provides access to both virtual and real resources, including e-journals, e-books, and article and journal databases, in addition to appropriate print equivalents. Materials can be renewed by using “My Account” on ORION2 (online catalog). Copy machines and microform readers/printers are available. Reserve and interlibrary loan of material, as well as other services, are available via the SEL Website. See http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/sel/.

Services

Instructional Computer Facility

HSSEAS maintains a UNIX network of eight IBM AIX RISC System/6000 computers, 25 Sun Solaris computers, four Sun Enterprise 220/280 servers, and two Network Appliance RAID NFS servers connected to a high-speed backbone network. The machines function as cycle, file, and application servers to approximately 600 Unix and Microsoft Windows workstations. Five open computer laboratories and one classroom for computerized instruction house 180 of the PC workstations.

In addition, UCLA Academic Technology Services (ATS) operates a Beowulf cluster that is used for performing lengthy, numerically intensive computations and for programs that can utilize parallel computing resources. ATS also provides assistance to groups and individuals wishing to parallelize their codes or establish their own local Beowulf cluster.

The school’s manufacturing engineering program operates a group of workstations dedicated to CAD/CAM instruction, and the Computer Science Department operates a network of SUN, PC, and Macintosh computers. The school is connected via high-speed networks to the Internet, and computing resources at the national supercomputer centers are available.

Shop Services Center

The Shop Services Center is available to faculty, staff, and students for projects.

Continuing Education

UCLA Extension

Department of Engineering, Information Systems, and Technical Management

Frank E. Burris, Ph.D., Director

William R. Goodin, Ph.D. Associate Director

The UCLA Extension (UNEX) Department of Engineering, Information Systems, and Technical Management (540 UNEX, 10995 Le Conte Avenue) provides one of the nation’s largest selections of continuing engineering education programs. A short course program of 128 annual offerings draws participants from around the world for two- to five-day intensive programs. The acclaimed Technical Management Program holds its sixty-fourth offering in September 2002 and sixty-fifth in March 2003. The Information Systems program -- offering 600 classes annually, including six certificated programs and four sequential programs in evening, day, and weekend formats -- covers a broad range of information technologies.

The department is a member of the Microsoft IT Academy Program and the Oracle Workforce Development Program, and an Authorized Sun Education Center and offers a Cisco certified curriculum. Each year, the department offers 40 classes in an online format, plus 200 classes in engineering disciplines that include manufacturing, electrical engineering, astronautical engineering, construction, technical management, and PE review classes. Most engineering classes are in a quarter-length, evening format. Call (310) 825-3344 for short course programs, (310) 825-3858 for the Technical Management Program, (310) 825-4100 for information systems programs, and (310) 825-0328 or (310) 206-1548 for engineering or technical management classes, or fax (310) 206-2815. See http://www.uclaextension.org.

Career Services

Engineering and Science Career Services

Engineering and Science Career Services (5289 Boelter Hall), a branch of the UCLA Career Center, assists HSSEAS undergraduate and graduate students and alumni explore career possibilities, prepare for graduate and professional school, obtain employment and internship leads, and develop skills for conducting a successful job search.

Services include career consulting and counseling, skills assessments, workshops, employer information sessions, and a multimedia collection of career planning and job search resources. Bruinview™ provides seniors and graduate students with opportunities to meet one-on-one with employers seeking entry-level job candidates. Bruintraks™, available on the Career Center website, offers 24-hour access to hundreds of current full-time, part-time, seasonal, and internship positions. An annual career fair for HSSEAS students is held Fall Quarter.

Engineering and Science Career Services also provides consultation services to HSSEAS student organizations.

Engineering and Science Career Services is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with extended evening hours until 7 p.m. on Tuesdays. For more information, call (310) 825-4606 or see http://www.career.ucla.edu/students/escpo.htm.

Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center

The Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, 221 Westwood Plaza (310-825-4073; http://www.studenthealth.ucla.edu), is an outpatient clinic for UCLAstudents. Most services are prepaid by registration fees, and a current BruinCard is required for service. Core (prepaid) services include visits, most procedures, X rays, and some laboratory procedures. Noncore (fee) services, such as pharmaceuticals, injections, orthopedic devices, and some laboratory procedures, are less costly than elsewhere. If students withdraw during a school term, all Ashe Center services continue to be available on a fee basis for the remainder of that term, effective from the date of withdrawal.

All UCLA undergraduate students are automatically assessed for and enrolled in the Undergraduate Student Health Insurance Plan (USHIP) as a condition of registration at UCLA. Continued enrollment in adequate medical/health insurance must be maintained during all registered terms.

All UCLA graduate students are automatically assessed for and enrolled in the Graduate Student Health Insurance Plan (GSHIP) as a condition of registration at UCLA. Continued enrollment in adequate medical/health insurance must be maintained during all registered terms.

The USHIP and GSHIP fees are billed each term along with other UCLA fees. USHIP/GSHIP fulfills all of the requirements mandated for adequate medical/health insurance as defined by the University. The Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center is the primary health care provider for USHIP/GSHIP and is where all nonemergency medical care must be initiated for USHIP/GSHIP claim payment consideration. See http://www.studenthealth.ucla.edu.

Services for Students with Disabilities

The Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD), A255 Murphy Hall (voice 310-825-1501, TDD 310-206-6083, fax 310-825-9656, http://www.saonet.ucla.edu/osd/), provides academic support services to regularly enrolled students with documented permanent or temporary disabilities in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and University policies. Academic support services are determined for each student based on specific disability-based requirements. Services include readers, note takers, sign language interpreters, Learning Disabilities Program, special parking, registration assistance, fee deferments authorized by the California Department of Rehabilitation, on-campus transportation, campus orientation and accessibility, proctor and test-taking arrangements, tutorial referral, housing assistance, support groups, workshops, special materials, adaptive equipment, and referral to the Disabilities and Computing Program. There is no fee for any of these services, and all contacts and assistance are handled confidentially.