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Finance Committee
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dear colleagues:
I am pleased to submit the following list of replacement equipment for the Visualab (PS231-B):
- Two (2) Sun Ultra 45 workstations, to replace and retire two aging Sun Ultra 10 workstations which were purchased in 2000. The quote, including shipping and taxes, is $15,396. This quote includes a 20% educational discount.
The Visualab leads development of web-based teaching and research applications in hydraulic and hydrologic engineering.
The lab specializes in dynamic web-content development with PHP scripting. It features sixty-five (65) online scripts (onlinechannel.sdsu.edu, onlinewsprofiles.sdsu.edu, onlinerouting.sdsu.edu, onlinecomp.sdsu.edu, onlinehydro.sdsu.edu, onlinetc.sdsu.edu, onlineregression.sdsu.edu, etc.). These scripts are extensively used in undergraduate instruction of CIV E445 (Applied Hydrology; 35 students per semester) and undergraduate/graduate instruction of CIV E 530 (Open-channel Hydraulics; 35 students per semester).
The lab is also used by graduate students in the following courses: in CIV E 632 (Computational Hydraulics; 10 students), CIV E 633 (Environmental Hydrology; 15 students), CIV E 634 (Surface-water Hydrology; 15 students), and in special studies (CIV E 798) and thesis (CIV E 799A and B).
Sincerely yours,
Victor M. Ponce
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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