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Originally Posted by EyePod
I'm in Chemical Engineering, and we had a small design lab. Then ABET came through (they give accreditation), the biggest complaint was that there wasn't enough computers there, and it was impossible to get work done, especially because teachers were trying to prepare underclassman by letting them use the simulation programs that were needed senior year. So ABET told our department that they needed to have a new design room or they wouldn't accredit. So they built a new one, with 7 plasma screen tv's and 11 great new computers. This is where I spend my time, and I need to limit myself to what I can do other than school work. By bringing my laptop, I would play games instead of doing work. When I'm on a school computer, there isn't as much that I can do other than HW. So maybe as a freshman it would be harder, but I found it to be better when I just used a school computer instead of my own.
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I'm very aware of ABET. I guess each school is different. At Florida they were getting rid of desktop labs. All of the Engineering software was being put on a network with licenses. You could login either on campus or at home on your laptop to utilize the tools.