Jason Soberaij
Digital Media Group
The Digital Media Group (DMG), in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, strives to remain competitive in the rapidly changing digital world of architecture and urban planning. Our staff, consisting of four professional staff members, one graduate assistant and eight media services staff, endeavors to make the computing environment productive and trouble free.
The DMG is composed of two instructional labs (239 Hayes with thirty-six workstations and 201A Hayes with twenty-four workstations), a general access work lab with eight workstations (55 Crosby), two media support facilities with flatbed and slide scanners, three technology-equipped classrooms and more than twenty-three computer-equipped studios distributed in Crosby and Hayes Halls. A print lab provides access to six large-format plotters supporting a variety of media types, two large-format color laser printers, two specialty color laser printers supporting portfolio generation, and one color laser printer supporting transparency media. A Digital Workshop provides access to a 50 watt laser cutter, an ABS plastic 3D printer, a color polymar 3D printer, a CNC router table, and a small format 3D scanner. Hayes and Crosby have full high-speed, wireless coverage and wired connections in all studios. All computing facilities are accessible 24x7 (except for six hours on Sunday mornings) and media services are available more than seventy per week in both our Hayes and Crosby facilities.
More than 180 academic and 110 faculty, staff, and research workstations provide connectivity to school servers, the university's computing and information technology systems, and the World Wide Web. Each student is allotted between 1000 MB and 2000 MB—depending on program level—of personal storage.
