Benson Hall is home to two computer lab rooms dedicated to undergraduate and graduate students in the chemical engineering department.
Undergraduate Computer Lab - BNS 125
This room is restricted to Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Students.
The Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Computer Lab in Benson Hall 125 contains workstations designed to support the technical needs of the students throughout their time in the department. Inside the lab are 38 Apple iMac desktop computers, each with Windows 10 and macOS, all accessible by your NetID. A Dawg Prints station, managed by Creative Communications, is also located in this space.
Available software on Windows 10:
- Aspen Engineering Suite (version 12.2)
- COMSOL Multiphysics (version 6.1)
- Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021
- PyCharm Community Edition
Available software on macOS:
- COMSOL Multiphysics (version 5.5)
- Microsoft Office for Mac 2016
- PyCharm Community Edition
Technical Specifications:
- Apple iMac 21.5"
- 3.6GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
- 32GB RAM 2400 MHz
- 512GB SSD
- AMD Radeon Pro 560 with 4GB VRAM
- Retina 4K - 4096-by-2304 native resolution display
Graduate Computer Lab - BNS 356
This room is restricted to Chemical Engineering Graduate Students.
All Graduate Students of the Chemical Engineering department can use the dedicated Computer Lab located in Benson Hall 356. Inside the space are 9 Apple iMac desktop computers, each equipped with a variety of software. Each are also dual-booted with Windows 10 and macOS Mojave. Access to this room requires a departmental building key. Please see the Benson Hall 105 Front Office space to request this key.
Available software:
- aspenONE (version 8.6)(only available on Windows 10)
- COMSOL Multiphysics (version 5.2a)
- Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016
Technical Specifications:
- Apple iMac 21.5"
- 3.2GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7
- 32GB RAM 2666 MHz
- 512GB SSD
- AMD Radeon Pro 560X with 4GB VRAM
- Retina 4K - 4096-by-2304 native resolution display
Lab Policy
No food or drinks are allowed inside the Benson Hall computer labs. Please keep the lab areas clean and check with the Benson Hall 105 front office for Lost & Found. You can contact the front desk at (206) 543-2250, or at cefiscal@uw.edu.
COVID-19 Safety
Per the UW campus guidelines, face coverings are not required but strongly recommended to be worn inside the computer labs, regardless of vaccination status. For more information, please read: UW COVID-19 Face Covering Policy
Class reservations
Please note that the lab space may be reserved at various times throughout the year for course recitation and other instructional purposes. Students with questions or concerns about these reservations should contact the course's instructor. If you're an instructor who needs to reserve time in these computer lab spaces, please email chemesupport@engr.washington.edu.
Contact
Email chemesupport@engr.washington.edu for issues regarding any of the workstations in the computer labs. Please include the computer number - for the Undergraduate Computer Lab workstations, this is labelled in the back and starts with "CHEN-125".
Need access to Aspen & COMSOL?
For ChemE students enrolled in courses requiring the Aspen Engineering Suite and/or COMSOL Multiphysics, and unable to access the computer labs on campus, please use the COE-VDI remote server resource managed by the College of Engineering. For more info, please read: COE-VDI