Faculty are provided with startup funds when they first arrive at the School. Faculty are expected to use some of these funds for their computer and research needs. Later, faculty can use some of their Research and Travel (R&T) funds to purchase new computer equipment after their startup funds expire. For more in-depth specifics on hardware purchases, see our purchasing equipment page.
SE Computing is available to help with computer hardware and software purchases for UCI use. We help ensure that equipment and software will meet the needs and requirements of individual use cases.
Equipment: Support is provided for UC Irvine-purchased equipment only. Support for UCI-owned equipment located off campus can be done remotely. We apologize, but cannot support home wireless networks - please consult your internet service provider for help.
Faculty: Support exclusively for the School of Social Ecology's current and emeritus faculty.
Staff: Support exclusively for the School of Social Ecology's staff.
Graduate Students: Assistance is provided in support of faculty research labs/projects. Assistance also provided with any SE lab accounts for grad students, or TA's teaching in our SBSG 4200 Computer Lab.
*SE Computing may provide additional support for dissertation defense presentations when feasible. Please reach out and ask.
In addition to your SE Computing office, UCI has a separate, large central computing organization called the Office of Information Technology (OIT). Many central services provided by OIT are free (basic networking and wi-fi, Duo multi-factor authentication, Canvas), others are offered as paid services (telephone services, some server hosting, research VM server hosting, etc.). You can visit OIT's site for their contact information and posted hours. If you have any questions about who to turn to, please
Faculty research and data protection is extremely important to UCI, but especially important in Social Ecology where many of our faculty are working with sensitive data that requires additional data security protections.
Our mission is to ensure research is compliant with government and university policies.
Here, you will find links to the resources, methods, and tools we provide to make this happen.
Adobe Pro software licenses for 2024-25 are now licensed at the school level. If Creative Cloud Suite (or Express Premium) is needed please have a KFS account number ready.
MultiFactor Authentication (MFA) is a two-step process that requires both a password and a second verification using a smartphone or a small token device that you carry with you. The University of California is adopting an MFA product called “Duo” and most UC campuses now require it to access institutional resources or soon will.
The campus is expected to transition to DUO MFA by October 15, 2019.
For assitance setting up DUO MFA please visit: https://www.oit.uci.edu/mfa/