Electronics Shop
The Physics Department Electronics Shop serves departmental administrative, instruction and research needs. It is staffed by a full time Computer / Electronics Specialist. The shop is open for all physics students, faculty, and staff for use during normal business hours.
Contact Information:
Bob Baer
418 Neckers
618-453-2729
rbaer@siu.edu
The shop’s functions are:
- Troubleshoot, design, and maintain departmental electronics and computers and assist researchers as needed.
- Maintains a stock of electronics components, batteries, spare computer parts, cables, wire, etc.
- Maintain electronic testing equipment for standard electronics as well as test software and hardware test systems for computers.
- Maintain Sherline 5400 CNC milling machine system.
- Monitoring, maintenance, and backups of departmental servers.
- Monitor / implement departmental anti-virus program and firewalls.
- Serve as a recycling / surplus collection point for departmental electronics and computers.
- Technical liaison to College of Science, Information Technology, and AIS support services.
- Act as a distribution point for campus and departmental site licensed software such as:
- Autodesk products
- Adobe
- Lab View
- Linux Distributions
- Maple
- Mathematica
- Microsoft software products and updates
- Origin
Additional Services/Projects:
Teaching Demonstrations. For a partial listing of available demonstrations, films, and other teaching resources, click here: https://www2.physics.siu.edu/intradepartment/demos/index.html (intradepartmental use only). See Physics Department Intradepartmental site for mor information on computational / technical, and instructional resources.