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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE

In the present world, which is dynamic and knowledge based, universities have a much wider role to play in creating, preserving, organizing, transmitting and applying knowledge. Modern educational technologies developed from information technology will certainly change in terms of access, interaction, curriculum and instruction etc. The physical locations and facilities will be less important in defining a college or a university due to the easy on-line access of the educational resources of a higher educational institution to the urban as well as rural public. This will provide opportunities to our high school graduated youths from rural areas as well as urban youths to access higher education without a need to forgo their working and earning opportunities to physically attend a college or a university. So universities need to adopt modern education technologies to provide increase access to knowledge resources.

Online technologies are going to make traditional class room teaching less important in many subjects except where it is absolutely necessary. Therefore interaction between teachers and students will have to play a vital role in imparting higher quality education. This means that more frequent and effective internal mechanism of interaction between university faculty and students need to be developed. This, in turn, causes an external relationship between universities and non-university communities. Such external relationship will necessitate universities to respond quickly to the changes in the outside world. Therefore a mechanism to increase both the internal and external interaction efficiencies has to be developed.

The curriculum and instruction are going to be changed greatly. Because the new technologies make the learning and teaching easier, the contents of some courses will be expanded, a considerable number of new courses will be generated, interdisciplinary courses and studies will be more possible. Students and faculties will contribute together to the development of curriculum.

Modern higher education technologies will also change present instructional methods to a more effective one. The faculties will have to adopt an instructional method best suited to the class of students whom they target or to develop new methods best suited for them based on their feedback. Video conferencing techniques, simulators and on-line access to many practical training kits will revolutionize instructional methods.

During last eight years, Mohanlal Sukhadia University has created basic Information Technology infrastructure in the campus in order to provide quality higher education to students and to provide proper academic and research environment to support University’s endeavor for excellence. The basic information Technology infrastructure created in the university is comparable to one of the best facilities available in any other universities in the country. An overview of these facilities available in the university campuses are as follows

UNIVERSITY COMPUTER CENTRE
University Computer Centre established in year 1987 with the help of University Grants commission and State Government of Rajasthan. This center which was earlier located in the old campus of the university was shifted to Vigyan Bhawan, a new building in the main campus in the year 2003. University computer center is equipped with modern computing facilities consisting of following:
Main Computing Systems

RISC based Digital Alpha Systems
Pentium-4 based Intel Server
Compaq Pentium-III Workstations
Compaq Pentium III File Servers
Computer Laboratories
General Computer Lab with 80 Pentium Computers
Computer Hardware and Network Lab
UNIX/Linux Lab with 20 Thin Clients
Computer Softwares

Digital and Sun Solaris true 64 Unix OS, Microsft Windows NT Server/Workstation, Windows 2000, Linux, Novel Netware Operating Systems
Database systems Oracle 8 Enterprise, MS SQL, MS Access, Visual Foxpro
Development Tools: Oracle Web Developer Suite, Sun Java Workshop, MS Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop
PC Softwares: Compilers C,C++,Pascal,Fortran90. MS Office, SPSS, MATLAB, CHEM

UNIVERSITY INTERNET CENTRE
 University Internet Centre established in the year 1997 with the help of State Government of Rajasthan with the following objectives:

To provide access of Internet to teachers and students for educational and research purpose
To provide training on Internet and Intranet to the students
To promote use of Internet as a non-conventional educational media
To establish Sukhadia University Network (SUNET) of computers
The Internet Centre which was located in the Department of Physics at Old campus was shifted to the Vigyan Bhawan in the main campus in 2003. Following facilities are located in the both campuses

Internet Centre , Vigyan Bhawan, Main Campus

University Intranet facilities
· Compaq Proliant ML350 Server configured as Windows ADS Server
· Compaq Proliant ML310 Server configured as Mail Server
· SUN Netra Web Server
· Pentium-III based PC’s configured as Network monitoring and backup servers
· DLINK Firewall & Layer 3 switches
· 10KVA UPS

Internet Links
512Kbps SCPC DAMA VSAT system under UGC Infonet programme
64 Kbps VSAT system at Internet Center, College of Science
64 Kbps Leased line BSNL connectivity at Internet Centre, Old Campus
32 kbps cablenet Internet Connectivity as backup at Old Campus
128 Kbps ISDN BSNL Internet Connectivity as main backup
64 kbps Cablenet Internet connectivity at Internet Centre, University central library, University examination computer centers as backup

Main Campus Network

100Mbps Ethernet LAN with 1500mtrs OFC backbone connecting following departments and units

· Computer Centre

· Faculty of Management Studies

· College of Social Sciences and Humanities (All departments under faculties of social sciences and Humanities)

· University Administrative offices

· University Central library

· University Examination block

Old campus Network

100Mbps Ethernet LAN with 1200mtrs OFC backbone connecting following departments and units

· College of Science (All departments under Science faculty)

· College of Commerce and Management Studies(All departments under commerce faculty)

COMPUTER CENTRES OF COLLEGES & UNITS
All University Departments and Units of the university are equipped with Personal computers with Internet Access. All research laboratories have their own Computer Systems with Internet access. Through the campus network all major computers systems are also accessible. In addition to the main Computer and Internet centres of the university, inorder to develop infrastructure facilities and to provide laboratory facilities computer centers were also established in all major departments and units. Following are the main computer centers established with the help of UGC, DST and university Development Funds

Computer Centre, College of Science campus: This center provides Computer Lab facilities for B. Sc course, Computer Hardware and Network Lab facilities for B.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc (Physics) and M.Sc(Electronics) courses.
Centre for Computational Sciences, Department of Physics: Advanced Computational facilities to meet complex computing, modeling and visualization requirements of Physicists are established with the help of UGC and DST under UGC DRS & UGC COSIST Programs. This facilities are also used for training and Project work of M.Sc (Physics), M.Sc (Electronics), M.C.A, M.Sc (IT) students. High end computational needs in the area of Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Image analysis, Bioinformatics are met by cluster of following computers
SGI OCTANE Computer System
SGI Windows Workstation for Visualization
Digital Alpha Workstation
Compaq Proliant Workstation
SUN Netra Java Workstation
10 Pentium Computers
Centre for Computer Applications, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
A Computer Centre established with the help of University Grants Commission and under University development fund provides facilities for Computer training to MA and B.A students and researchers. Windows NT/2000 server and 20 Pentium computer system along with Digital Alpha workstation available under DST research project are used for training in Computer Applications and GIS

Computer Centre, Botany Department
Department of Botany has established a computer center in the department under DST FIST programme to meet computational and Internet access work in Botany and biotechnology research. Compaq proliant server and a network of 10 Pentium 4 computers are available in the center and research labs.

Computer Centre, College of Commerce and Management Studies
A Computer Center under MIB programme along with computers at various departments and libraries in the college are used to provide computer training, computational work and Internet access to teachers, research scholars and students of BBM, MIB and MHRM courses.

Computer Centre, Geology Department
A Computer Center established at the Department of Geology with centralized and distributed facilities in the department to meet Geological computational needs. The computer center facilities are also used for entrepreneurship training programme. Department has developed and maintaining a website to provide information about geological resources

Computer Centre, Geology Department
 A computer Centre established in the Faculty of Management studies with 15 computer system to provide training and Internet access to teachers, research scholars and students of management faculty.


COMPUTER & INFLIBNET Centre, University Central library
A computer center with following facilities are established in the University Central library for computerization and Internet access

Windows 2000 Database Server
Windows 2000 Proxy server
10 Pentium computers
Computers are installed in all sections of the library to enable users to access catalogue, Internet access, access to INFLIBNET center etc.

In addition to the above following computer centers also established to meet computerization of university administration

Computer Centre , Accounts and Planning
Computer Centre, Examination Section
Computer Centre, General Administration
UNIVERSITY INTRANET FOR COMPUTERISATION OF ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS

University has already computerized most of administrative functions including University library, University Accounts, Establishment, Examinations etc. In the year 2003, University has decided to automize all academic and administrative functions with following objectives

To establish Intranet based University Expert System for the automization
To implement the Paperless Office, Smartcard and biometric based information securities
Remote access facilities of information system to all affiliated colleges
University has conducted a system study for the implementation of the above during next five years in a phased manner. Following facilities are available on the University Intranet and under testing.

Employee Salary Information
Employee Information System
Departmental Information System
Examination Grievance registration
Student Information System
University Library Information System
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL & E-CONTENT ACCESS

Under UGC Infonet Programme, full text of research papers published in various research journals are accessible to teachers and research scholars of the University. At present access to about 1500 journals published by following publishers are available through university Intranet

All Journals published Kluwer
All journals published by Springer Verlag
Chemical Abstract
Encyclopedia Britanica


COURSES & TRAINING
University offers following courses and training programmes in the area of Information technology

Three year MCA programme at University Computer Centre
Two Year M.Sc(IT) programme under Department of Physics
Two Year M.Sc (Electronics) programme under Department of Physics
One Year PG Diploma in Computer Applications in affiliated colleges
Three Year B.Sc Degree course with Computer Science as one of the main subjects
Four Year B.E programme in Computer Engineering
In addition to above courses, specilization papers/ Computer Application papers are included in the following courses

M.Sc(Physics) Specialization papers in Informatics, Advanced Electronics, Non-Linear Physics etc
M.Sc (Chemistry)
M.Sc (Statistics)
M.Sc (Biotechnology)
M.A (Economics)
M.A (Geography)
M.H.R.M
M.I.B
M.B.A
B.B.M
B.E