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 three professional staff members, two graduate assistant and ten Print Lab staff, endeavors to make the computing environment productive and trouble free.
The DMG is composed of the following instructional facilities:
- Crosby 40 instructional lab with 36 workstation-class systems and instructor podium;
- Hayes C room 5 instructional lab with with 24 workstation-class systems and instructor podium;
- Crosby 41 instructional lab with 14 workstation-class systems;
- Crosby 55 work lab with 24 workstation-class systems;
- Hayes B room 07 educational technology classroom seating 60;
- Diefendorf 105 educational technology classroom seating 49;
- Diefendorf 106 educational technology classroom seating 24;
- Diefendorf 119 educational technology seminar space seating 10 with 50" plasma display and Skype video conferencing support;
- Hayes B room 1K educational technology seminar space seating 12 with 50" plasma display and Skype video conferencing support.
A Print Lab, located in Crosby 50, provides basic plotting capabilities with six plotters, mid-range plotting support with a multi-roll fee plotter, and high-end plotter support with another multi-roll feed plotter. Six high-speed duplexing black/white printers and three high-speed color copiers provide color laser capabilities and easy scanning options. A Digital Workshop provides access to two 50 watt laser cutters, an ABS plastic 3D printer, a color polymar 3D printer, a CNC router table, and a small format 3D scanner. All facilities have full high-speed, wireless coverage. All computing facilities are accessible 24x7 and print services are available more than seventy per week.
More than 80 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.
