2006–2007 - Florida Institute of Technology

kayaks, camping and backpacking equipment for rent. The 5,000
sq. ft. weight and fitness area is equipped with cardiovascular
machines including treadmills, elliptical machines, exercise
bikes and stair-climbers, free weights and selectorized weight
equipment. Recreation and athletics department offices are also
located in the facility. The Clemente Center hires student staff to
work in the facility throughout the year.
The 500-seat W. Lansing Gleason Performing Arts Center
is designed for stage plays, musical productions, scientific displays,
lectures, seminars, camps and conferences. It is equipped
with a complete control booth for professional stage facilities,
lighting and sound. The facility is equipped with both C- and
KU-band, and digital satellite downlink services that can be
incorporated into productions and viewed on a large screen.
Situated in the central portion of the campus, the center is a
cultural asset to the university and surrounding community.
The Jerome P. Keuper Administration Building houses the
offices of the associate provost and vice president for student
affairs, financial aid, international student and scholar services,
career services and cooperative education. Also located in this
building are the offices of graduate and undergraduate admission.
The 65,000-sq.-ft. John H. Evans Library is located in the
Learning Pavilion, which also houses the Applied Computing
Center, Academic Support Center and a teaching auditorium.
The library’s Web-based Library Information Network (LINK)
is accessible around the clock on campus and remotely. The
LINK (www.lib.fit.edu) provides an online catalog, electronic
journals, citation and full-text databases and electronic gateways
to information resources worldwide. Electronic resources
include ProQuest, FirstSearch, Ingenta, Engineering Village 2,
PsycINFO, WilsonWeb, IEEE/IEE Electronic Library, Aquatic
Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Aerospace and High Technology
Database, SciFinder Scholar, Biological Abstracts,
Literature Resource Center, EBSCOhost EJS, ACM Portal,
ENGnetBASE, MathSciNet, Mergent, CCH Internet Research
NetWork and CCH Internet Tax NetWork. These resources
complement the print, government documents and audiovisual
collections. A classroom is equipped for multimedia presentations.
Library faculty and staff offer specialized instruction and
ongoing assistance with information access.
Current holdings comprise in excess of 117,000 books, more than
228,000 government documents, and an extensive collection of
scholarly journals including close to 16,000 current print and
electronic subscriptions. The library participates in the Federal
Depository Library Program, which provides federally produced
information to the library. Library memberships include the
American Library Association, the Florida Library Association,
the Central Florida Library Cooperative, the Library Association
of Brevard, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and
the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET). Of particular
interest to undergraduate students is Research Sources and
Systems (COM 2012), offered by faculty librarians. This onecredit
course familiarizes the student with a variety of research
strategies, sources and services, and emphasizes traditional and
electronic research tools available in the students’ major fields.
The skills and knowledge gained prepare a student to effectively
perform scholarly library research. Graduate students are invited
to attend a three-hour graduate research workshop, offered each
semester.
The seven-story Crawford Building provides space for modern
laboratories, classrooms and faculty offices for the mathematical
sciences and the humanities and communication departments.
Also in the Crawford Building are the offices of the vice provost
for research, the associate provost for information technology, the
associate provost for graduate and international programs, the
dean of University College and the School of Extended Studies.
In addition to these, the building houses the office of the director
of the Institute for Energy Systems and the National Center for
Hydrogen Research.
The Edwin Link Building accommodates environmental sciences,
oceanography and ocean engineering.
The F.W. Olin Engineering Complex houses all departments
of the College of Engineering with the exception of the department
of marine and environmental systems, which is housed in
the Link Building. This three-story facility includes 26 specialized
research and teaching laboratories and the 145-seat Lynn
Edward Weaver Auditorium.
The F.W. Olin Life Sciences Building is the home of the
biological sciences programs. This two-story facility contains
eight teaching laboratories and 12 research laboratories that were
designed with “flex space” for customizing the areas to meet the
needs of specific activities.
The F.W. Olin Physical Sciences Center houses the office
of the dean of the College of Science; chemistry, physics and
space sciences offices and laboratories; a high-bay research area;
an observatory dome; and a rooftop deck area that will accommodate
up to 15 additional telescopes. Construction on a 32-inch
telescope, expected to be the largest in the state of Florida and
installed in the observatory dome, should be complete within
18 months.
The Shephard Building is the home of the science and mathematics
education department.
George M. Skurla Hall is the home of the College of Aeronautics.
It is a modern two-story building that includes faculty
offices, classrooms, laboratories in air traffic control, advanced
systems and computers, and a 125-seat auditorium. The flight
training department is located nearby at the Melbourne International
Airport.
Separate academic buildings on campus are dedicated for use
by the College of Business and College of Psychology and
Liberal Arts.
Services
The Information Technology department provides services
to the campus community in the areas of e-mail accounts, Web
services, computing facilities, technology support and network
services. In addition, the department is responsible for telephone
and copy services on campus. Resources include a variety of
multimedia classrooms, the Applied Computing Center, the
TEC Center and the F.W. Olin Production Center. Information
on both services and facilities is available on the Information
Technology Web site, www.it.fit.edu, or by e-mail request at
info@it.fit.edu.
All residence halls and on-campus apartments are wired for network
and Internet access. Wireless access to the campus network
is limited to select areas of the Florida Tech campus. Students
are assigned e-mail accounts upon enrollment in classes.
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