Facilities

Science Center
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science makes its home in Manchester’s new Science Center, which opened for classes in the fall of 2005.

The north wing of the Science Center is filled with classrooms, laboratories, study areas, student-faculty research rooms, and faculty offices. The south end is home to the Physicians Atrium, Flory Auditorium, a greenhouse and classroom/seminar rooms.

Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics share the first floor. Biology occupies the second floor and Chemistry  encompasses the third floor. All of the faculty offices face the mall, on the east side of the building. Glassed study areas on the second and third floor also face the mall.

Technology
The College maintains nine main computer labs with over 140 computers. Public labs (with 15 computers or more) are located in Clark Computer Center, Funderburg Library and the Science Center. Each of the five residence halls also contains a computer lab.  Public labs contain computers that are Pentium 4,3.0Ghz machines or better, with at least 512Mb RAM, a DVD/CD-RW combo drive, a 17” flat-panel monitor and a sound card (headphones may be used with any lab machine). Public machines run the Vista operating system. Software applications installed on the campus network include Microsoft Office 2007 (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and FrontPage), Maple 11 (a computer algebra system), Matlab R14 (for scientific computing), and SPSS 15 (for statistical analysis).

The Computer Classroom (Science 142) is used for classroom instruction in various mathematics and computing courses and is available for general lab use at other times. The Computer Science lab located in the Science Center, contains 6 Linux machines and is used primarily in upper-level C.S courses.

Manchester College is committed to staying current with technology.  In 2005, the College replaced one-fourth of the 625 PCs on campus and increased its high-speed bandwidth from 7.5 Mbps to 45 Mbps.  Wireless connectivity is available in the library and the Science Center.