The Physics Department Electronics Shop serves departmental administrative, instruction and research needs.  It is staffed by a full time Computer / Electronics Specialist, a Graduate Assistant, and an Undergraduate student worker. 

Contact Information:

The shop’s functions are: 

• Troubleshoot, design, and maintain departmental electronics and computers and assist researchers as needed.
• Maintains a stock of electronics components, batteries, spare computer parts, cables, etc.
• Maintain electronic testing equipment for standard electronics as well as test software and hardware test systems for computers.

• Monitoring, maintenance, and backups of departmental servers. 
• Monitor / implement departmental anti-virus program and firewalls.
• Serve as a recycling / surplus collection point for departmental electronics and computers.
• Technical liaison to College of Science, Information Technology, and AIS support services.
• Act as a distribution point for campus site licensed software such as:

All Microsoft client software products and updates

Linux Distributions

All Autodesk products

Mcafee antivirus

Maple

Mathematica

Grade Quick

Lab View

Additional Services / Projects:

Teaching Demonstrations.  For a partial listing of available demonstrations, films, and other teaching resources, click here http://www.physics.siu.edu/intradepartment/demos/index.html (intradepartmental use only).  See Physics Department Intradepartmental site for mor information on computational / technical, and instructional resources. 

Computational Resources

Linux cluster builds / maintenance. 

Some electronics shop projects