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If you have difficulty with your English, with writing essays, understanding lectures, doing presentations or any other aspect of English, then the English Language Self-Access Centre (ELSAC) is the place for you. You can come and improve your English 7 days per week, and it doesn’t cost anything! When you come to the ELSAC one of our language advisors will help you by giving you advice on what to learn and how. They will show you how to improve your English most efficiently and you will get feedback on how you are doing. You can make a one-onone appointment with them to get the best possible help. You can further improve your English by using any of the 1000+ language learning materials we have in the ELSAC. There are listening materials, videos, DVDs and computer programmes that let you record your speech and compare it with a native speaker’s speech. The ELSAC also offers many language learning activities for free. There is a Reading Club where you learn to increase your reading speed and learn to understand academic English, a Writing Club where you can practise various aspects of writing essays and assignments and many others. What do we offer? • Qualified staff to help you 7 days per week, for free! • An Electronic Learning Environment, an innovative computer programme that helps you learn by yourself. • A quiet and friendly place to study English • Hundreds of books, dictionaries, magazines, newspapers, and other print materials • Movies on DVD with subtitling • Computer programmes that help you with your pronunciation, by recording and analysing your speech • Language learning activities For more information, contact us elsac@ auckland.ac.nz or visit us in our new Centre on: Level 1 of the Information Commons Building, opposite UBS. Visit our website for more information: www.elsac.auckland.ac.nz English Language Self Access Centre (ELSAC). The Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics has a state-of-the-art Self- Access Centre for all students from non- English speaking backgrounds to engage in self-directed study to work on their English language proficiency in their own time. The Centre is a quiet and friendly place to study English. Resources include computer programmes for academic English; voice activated recording systems to improve pronunciation and speaking skills; movies on DVD with subtitling, a reading corner with hundreds of books for learners of English, academic articles, magazines, and newspapers; IELTS exam preparation resources; language activities such as book and movie clubs to help develop presentation and interview skills. There are trained staff to help you find your way around. ELSAC is located on the Ground floor, 8 Grafton Road. For further information about fees and opening times, contact Hayo Reinders, ext 84697/85610 e-mail: elsac@auckland.ac.nz, or visit the website at www.auckland.ac.nz/elsac Access Cards and Keys Postgraduate students may be allowed to have keys if their Head of Department approves. Students pay a deposit for cards and keys, refundable on return. Students are given access to different areas of the building according to the Part in which they are enrolled. The various levels of access and method of obtaining access will be displayed on the Faculty Administration noticeboards on Level 3. To obtain an access card, students must fill out an application form (available from the Engineering Student Centre). The cost of the card is $5. This card needs updating every year by filling in the application form. In case of loss, a replacement card will cost $25. Laboratories 1. Laboratory work related to all papers are an integral part of that paper. A candidate’s attendance and satisfactory performance, including the submission of reports, forms a part of the requirement for the completion of the paper. 2. Chemical and Materials Engineering students will be required to wear a protective laboratory coat, (boiler suit/ overall or similar protective clothing are also acceptable), for all their laboratory classes. Laboratory and Dark Room Usage By Postgraduate and Part IV Project Students Because there are safety hazards in the laboratories and because the laboratories contain a great deal of valuable equipment, rules for their use are necessary. Postgraduate and final-year project students may use only those laboratories in which they have been given specific authority to work by their supervisor. No other student may use the laboratories except in the course of carrying out any undergraduate laboratory programme for which he or she is enrolled. There are no restrictions on the times the laboratories may be used for PhD and Masters by thesis students, providing the following conditions are observed: 1. Students must have written permission on the official form from their supervisor to carry out experimental work in the laboratories outside normal hours and may only use laboratories in which they have been given specific authority to work. Supervisors giving such permission are required to examine the proposed work and both staff and students must assure themselves that rules concerning safety are met. Permits for postgraduates must be renewed at intervals of not more than three months. 2. Laboratory work carried out when a person is alone in a room must be restricted to operations with which the individual is familiar and are not hazardous. Hazardous operations include (but are not confined to): - handling or mixing chemicals - wiring up electrical equipment - using machine tools other than battery powered ones - using equipment designated by the technicians in charge of the laboratory as hazardous - using welding or oxy-acetylene equipment 3. On leaving the laboratories in which they have been working students and staff are responsible for ensuring that all equipment and services are in a safe condition. This means, for example, turning off electricity, gas and water which they have used. 4. Students may not work alone in the laboratories after hours unless another student or staff member is present. Under certain conditions a waiver of this requirement may be given, in writing, by the student’s supervisor. Supervisors are instructed to give written permission to use the laboratories for a specified and limited time and then only when it is seen as essential for the research that work is carried out after hours. Students should be aware that in the event of an accident happening outside normal working hours the Human Sciences Building security desk is staffed 24 hours per day and may be contacted (extension 85000) at any time. 48 49
Identification Unisafe and other staff may call for reasonable identification of any person within the building at any time. Unisafe staff are specifically authorised to require any student to produce an identity card on request. A person unable to produce satisfactory identification may be required to leave the building. Lockers Lockers are available for use by students in the building. Please contact the Auckland University Engineering Society (AUES) for information on renting a locker, rm. 2.306 Level 3 Engineering Building. Noticeboards, Communication, Student Services Stall Emails Staff-student and student-student written communication is affected by using email and notice boards. Each student is allocated a University email address. The University and the Faculty use these addresses to contact all postgraduate students with important information about scholarships, submission deadlines and other matters. You should check your University email account regularly to pick up such messages and, if you are using a personal email address, set up your University email Inbox to redirect such messages to the personal address. Notice Boards There are notice boards in Level 3 of the Engineering Building for engineering students. There is also a notice board to announce job vacancies. Other noticeboards in Level 3 are for AUES (Auckland University Engineering Society), WEN (Women in Engineering), SPIES (South Pacific Indigenous Engineering Students), KESA (Hong Kong Engineering Students Association). Each department also has a noticeboard near the Departmental Office and there are others in various places around the Faculty. These are to display such things as results of tests, worked solutions to problems, job opportunities and information about postgraduate study. Computing Facilities Postgraduate students starting their programmes at the beginning of each semester in Engineering will have a computer account created for them as long as their enrolment has been completed correctly. Students should login to their account using their UPI and NetAccount password. If students commence mid semester, or for some reason find their account has not been created automatically, they should approach their departmental computer administrators to create an account. A list of computer administrators can be found on the notice boards in the general Faculty lab (rm 1.301) or online at http://www.engineering.auckland.ac.nz/ Studentinfo/ComputerResources/labstaff.htm Some departments provide dedicated computers to postgraduate students and again your departmental administrators should be able to advise students on available resources at their disposal. Postgraduates are also welcome to use the computers in the general Faculty labs, especially the drop in areas, for casual work, but these computers are not to be tied up running unattended simulations that take hours. Swipe cards for 24 hour access to Faculty labs can be obtained from the Engineering reception The use of computer resources is governed by the Computer System Statute as set out in the University of Auckland Calendar and Information Security Policies at: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/security/ PoliciesandStatutes.htm as well as those displayed in the computer laboratories. Failure to observe these rules may result in withdrawal of access and disciplinary action taken. For more information please refer online at: http://www.engineering.auckland. ac.nz/Studentinfo/Computer Resources/ computerresources.htm Rules Governing the Use of the Faculty’s Computer Laboratories We endeavour to provide a productive environment in all our Faculty laboratories, and ask that all our users help us with achieving this. We ask that everyone work quietly, using only software provided from the network, and that they restrict their work to that relevant to their studies. General group work and non computer based work should not be done in any of the computer labs but rather in the large study areas provided within the Engineering buildings. Laboratory staff are keen to maintain a good friendly atmosphere within the labs and we would ask all users to conduct themselves in a polite and courteous manner. Please remember that the staff are not there merely to respond immediately to your particular problems, however serious they may appear to you, but to facilitate the productivity of all Faculty IT users. All users of the laboratories are subject to the ‘Computer System Statute’ as set out in the University of Auckland Calendar ‘Acceptable Use Policies’ defined by the University, and any conditions of use displayed in the computer labs. Breaches of these or other specific Engineering Computer Laboratory rules, as listed below, may result in disciplinary action. This could include the withdrawal of account access and/or print balances as well as a ban from the laboratories, loss of assignment marks, or referral to the University Discipline Committee with a possible consequent fine, or expulsion from courses or the University. • Food or drink MUST NOT be brought into the labs for any reason. • Users MUST keep the labs quiet and tidy when they are working in the labs. • Users MUST use computer facilities only as instructed by lecturers. • Computers MUST NOT be used for anything other than Engineering coursework. • No-one is allowed to use, or attempt to use, any computer accounts other than their own. • Users MUST NOT interfere with the normal operational controls in the system or try to alter the default system names or settings. Systems must be left running in the state in which they are found. • Users MUST NOT attempt to overcome any system imposed controls or limits. • Unauthorised programs of any sort MUST NOT be installed and run onto any computers in the labs • Software or data on Faculty computers SHOULD NOT be copies, altered or removed. • Copies of other people’s files and materials MUST NOT be made without written authority subject to the Copyright Act 1994. 50 51
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