The College of Engineering access control system is composed of computer-controlled electronic locks that are operated by an access card.

If you have a Hawk ID and an affiliation (student, staff, faculty) with the College of Engineering, your Iowa One Card is your Seamans Center (SC) access card.

If you are not affiliated with the College of Engineering and need to use SC resources, an Engineering faculty or staff member must authorize your access. After that sponsor has notified ECS, come to the ECS office, 1256 SC, with your Iowa One card, if you have one, or government ID, such as a driver’s license. If you have a UI Health Care Badge, bring it so that SC access can be added to the card.

If you need access to doors that are not included by default, go to department that manages the space to get authorization.

If you have problems with your access card, come to the ECS office, 1256 SC.

For engineering students, the default doors are the perimeter doors that have access control (entrances 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, and 13*), the student labs (Elder, Hering, 2301 SC), and the student study space in 4517 SC. Seniors have access to the group collaboration room 2222 SC. Non-engineering students have no door access, even if taking an engineering course.

Faculty and staff have access to the perimeter doors listed above and conference rooms in SC; they may have access to shared departmental spaces.

*Entrance 1 on east side near NE corner; 3 on north side near NW corner; 5 in alley across from CC and leading to ramp by EMS; 8 on west side near loading dock and elevator; 10 on west side at end of alley between SC and CC; and 13 on south side off John Deere Plaza.

The College of Engineering maintains four classrooms in the Seamans Center- 1220S (Hering Lab South), 1245, 2040 and 3231. Each classroom is equipped with Windows computers for the students and instructor. For specifications and capabilities, see the details for the each classroom below. 

1220S SC (Hering Lab South)

1245 SC

2040 SC

3231 SC

There are twelve general assignment classrooms in the College of Engineering:

The Windows computers in these general assignment classrooms belong to the Iowa domain, meaning users login using Hawk ID and Hawk ID password. Once connected, drives can be mapped to Engineering account home directory to get access to files stored there.

The software available is the software available to computers on the Iowa domain, which is managed by ITS, as well as some of the engineering software available on the computer lab machines. Iowa domain software includes Maple, Mathematica, and Wolfram Mathematica. The software that is not available includes engineering software such as ANSYS, Arena, and PTC Creo. To use engineering software, users must go to Start - All Programs - Remote Desktop, or click the Remote Desktop icon on the Desktop, which allows users to log into office Windows computer.