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COLLEGE PARK, MD (October 2009) - Students studying within the College of Education's Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation will no longer have to search the campus high and low for computers to run their sophisticated statistical modeling systems. Last month the Department unveiled its new Psychometric Computation and Simulation (PCS) Lab housing eight Dell Vostro desktop computers, a laser printer and a wealth of statistical and measurement software. Located in the Cole Student Activities Building, the Lab will provide EDMS' 120 currently enrolled students with the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge computer simulation and computational research.
"We conceived the idea for this lab a year ago," said Assistant Professor Jeffrey Harring, director of the PCS Lab. "Before the lab, if our students wanted to conduct projects that required statistical and measurement software they would have to find a campus computer with the appropriate software or download the software on their own computer."
Harring adds that students conducting complex research projects that require commandeering multiple computers can do so within this lab in half the time previously required, because they now have the ability to string together multiple computers.
Funded by a grant from the Campus Student Technology Advisory, the PCS Lab was also developed to train students (including ones not enrolled in the Department) on the statistical and measurement software it houses.
To learn more, or to visit the PCS Lab, please email Assistant Professor Harring at harring@umd.edu.
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