Technology Laboratory Assistants

TLA Job Description

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Technology Lab

Welcome to the Cornerstone Technology Laboratory! The Tech Lab, located on the ground floor of Gregg Hall, offers free access to PCs and Macs at convenient hours in a comfortable study setting. Students may study alone or in groups, taking advantage of a reading room, classrooms and a seminar room, the computer area, or the pillow area. Students who would like to use their own laptops can use them in this fully wireless facility.

All Tech Lab computers are equipped with a wide range of academically-oriented programs designed to help students succeed at Washington University. Trained Tech Lab Assistants are available to help students with questions about applications like Matlab – a program used in calculus courses; statistical analysis programs like SPSS and SAS; Inspiration – a brainstorming program for writing papers and essays; webpage design software and test preparation materials for the GREs, MCATS, LSATs and GMATs.

Adobe Photoshop 7.0
A professional image-editing standard, with an integrated Web tool application, Adobe ImageReady
Graduate Admissions Practice Exams
 New! 2008 GMAT, GRE, MCAT, and LSAT
Inspiration 8
Brainstorming program designed to help students draft outlines for papers and assignments
JAWS 8.0
(Available on Computers 1-5)
A screen reader that provides speech technology that works with the PC to access popular software applications and the Internet
Kurzweil 3000
(Available on Computer 6 only)
 The premier reading, writing and learning software for struggling students uses a multi-sensory approach - presenting printed or electronic text on the computer screen with added visual and audible accessibility
MATLAB 7.4 (r2007a)
Used in calculus courses –A high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis & numeric computation
Microsoft Office Suite 2003
Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word
Microsoft Visio 2003
 A powerful, diagramming software
SAS 9.1.3
 Data management and analysis program
SPSS 15.0.1
Used for conducting statistical analyses, manipulating data, and generating tables and graphs that summarize data

For questions or information call Dr. Michael Getty, Technology Services Specialist, at 935-5914.

Click here to go to Dr. Getty's weblog on technology at Cornerstone.