The SESRC is committed to staying abreast of emerging technologies and their application to social and economic research. Accordingly, we provide our staff with the latest computer hardware and software to facilitate their work. Currently, all center personnel use Pentium-based computers running Windows 2000/XP Professional, in addition to the latest versions of Microsoft Office, Corel Suite, and other various utilities such as Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Winzip, and Eudora Pro.

Our facilities are currently located on the first floor of Wilson Hall at Washington State University and in Suite F at the University Research Park. Each location is equipped with two high-end network servers designed to support over 300 simultaneous users. Through physically separated, our two offices are able to communicate effectively and efficiently by taking full advantage of our integrated center Intranet.
The Research Park office is the location for the SESRC's data collection unit. A total of seven full-time personnel (3 data collection managers, 3 survey supervisors, and 1 network administrator), manage an average of 100-200 student interviewers. We currently have 51 fully functional interviewing stations, 12 of which are used primarily for interviewer training. All interviewing stations are equipped with Pentium-based computers, Windows 95, modems, and telephone headsets. The CATI system currently in use is Voxco. Our network infrastructure for all interviewer workstations supports switched ethernet, while both NT servers connect via T100 lines. Additionally, we have several commercial level printers that are designed to support large-scale print jobs and the SESRC's state-of-the-art mail surveys.

The Wilson Hall location is the primary headquarters for our administrative, project management, and data management units. In addition to the staff resources described above, the center has a training facility for both staff and interviewer training needs. The Wilson Training center contains 14 workstations running Windows NT and used to offer in-house trainings on various software programs. Beginning in late summer of 2000, the SESRC Wilson Training center will offer short courses on data management, acquisition, and analysis using a variety of popular software packages such as SPSS, SAS, and STATA. Future training plans include a "virtual training classroom" where participants can take short courses on-line.

For specific descriptions and summaries of the hardware, software, and network infrastructure present in our facilities, click the location of interest below.

Wilson Hall
Research Park

WILSON HALL FACILITY SUMMARY:

 

Network Infrastructure:

Two T100 server connections

Workstations use switched and shared 10base-T

 

Hardware:

 

Primary Server:

Dual 1.7ghz Pentium IV Xeon

200GB Disk Storage

1 GB RAM

 

Secondary Server:

Dual 1ghz Pentium III

120GB Disk Storage

1 GB RAM

Software:

Windows2000 Server

IIS 5

SQL Server 2000

MS Office2000
Corel Suite
Frontpage2000

Miscellaneous Utilities

 

 

RESEARCH PARK FACILITY SUMMARY:

Network Infrastructure:

Two T100 server connections

Workstations use switched and shared 10base-T

 

Hardware:

        Primary Server:

            - 400mhz Pentium II

            - 36gb SCSI storage

            - 256 MB RAM

 

        Backup Server:

            - 200mhz Pentium

            - 10GB storage

            - 128MB RAM

 

Software:

Windows NT Server

Office2000
Corel Suite
Frontpage2000

Miscellaneous Utilities