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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):
Six (6) Sun 24-in flat-screen color monitors, with keyboard and mouse, to replace and retire six (6) obsolete CRT color monitors that were purchased between 2000 and 2002 (7-9 years old). The quote, including shipping and taxes, is $4,828.
One (1) Sun Sparc Enterprise M3000 server, with 292 GB of storage, to replace and retire our SunBlade 1000 data server, which was purchased in March 2002 (7 years old) The quote, including shipping and taxes, is $15,978.
One (1) Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System, with 4.2 TB of storage, to replace and retire our temporary streaming server, a Hewlett-Packard xw6000. This workstation was purchased in August 2003 (6 years old). The quote, including shipping and taxes, is $17,247.
Total amount of this request: $38,053. In the event of limited funds, these three requests can be prioritized separately.
The Visualab leads the 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 one-hundred and five (105) online scripts (onlinechannel.sdsu.edu, onlinewsprofiles.sdsu.edu, onlinerouting.sdsu.edu, onlinehydro.sdsu.edu, onlinedo.sdsu.edu, onlinetc.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 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). Two CIVE graduate students (Leila Geramipour and Jing Sun) are developing their theses using the lab facilities.
The Visualab also leads the development of webvideos for specialized hydraulic and hydrologic engineering applications.
Sincerely yours,
Victor M. Ponce
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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