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Mission Statement

As the University's centre of excellence in the discipline of Information Technology, the department's mission is to:

• Deliver IT academic programmes and courses relevant to the changing needs of graduates in an information society;
• Advance the state-of-knowledge and application of IT through fundamental and applied research;
• Promote technologically based advances in industry and society through outreach support activities.

Background to the Department of IT

The National University of Ireland, Galway has identified Information Technology as one of its key strategic academic disciplines. Within the Irish University sector, it has a unique approach to development of IT research and teaching, recognising separate demands for: IT as an individual discipline focused on industry's needs for Software Engineering skills and research; and IT in combination with other disciplines to address the broader skill needs of the information society. The Department of IT is the University's School of IT and has grown rapidly, since its establishment in 1991, to become the largest academic discipline of the University.

The Department of IT currently has 18 full-time academic staff, two administrative staff members and two full-time technical staff, as well as up to 20 part-time teaching and research assistants.

The Department is now housed in a purpose built state of the art building completed in January 2001. € 11.5m was spent on this dedicated 4100 m² building on the banks of the River Corrib. This provides state-of-the-art facilities for IT teaching and research. About 35% of the physical space of the building is dedicated to advanced research.

Facilities in the Department of IT

The IT Building is situated at the rear of the main University Concourse, overlooking the River Corrib.
Some Links on our location : University Maps - Help on How To Get Here - Galway City Map.

The facilities within the building include :

• Total floor area of 41,000 square metres.
• Teaching accommodation for up to 750 students.
• Dedicated computer suites for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Specialised computer laboratories, computer architecture and common net working technologies and embedded systems. Dedicated final year project laboratories.
• Research accommodation for up to 70 postgraduate and post doctoral researchers.
• Supercomputer facilities provide HPC support to IT researchers and other research groups throughout the campus.
• Wireless LAN infrastructure in teaching and open access areas.
• Coffee dock facilities on site and the IT department is situated in close proximity to the staff restaurant, Moffitts.

The Department of IT maintains its own LAN infrastructure. A Gigabit Fibre backbone connects all labs to the main servers. Computer nodes have a full duplex 100MB connection to the backbone. The Department runs its own windows, unix and linux servers which provide web, email, print and database services. The HEAnet offer high speed internet connection to the college and department. Our MSDN academic license offers students the opportunity to use full Microsoft products for software development, along with any open-source software available.

Getting your IT Account

For help with your IT account please refer to this document - PDF or Microsoft Word

To obtain Your IT account or see if you are entitled to it, please refer to the web page http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/accounts/

If you are having difficulty either getting your account or using it, please log a ticket by emailing supportit.nuigalway.ie , or through our ticket system

    

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