{"id":1597,"date":"2020-06-05T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/?page_id=1597"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:29:53","slug":"student-computing-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/student-computing-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Computing Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Student Computing Requirements\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">minimum<\/span> computing requirements and configuration recommended <strong>for engineering students<\/strong> are:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #201f1e;\">Intel i5 or AMD A10 processor;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt;\">8GB of RAM; and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #201f1e;\">256 GB SSD hard drive.&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #201f1e;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Please note<\/span>: students registered in programs offered by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Biomedical and Mechanical, and Sustainable and Renewable Energy \u2013 Stream B) will require a dedicated graphics card with at least 2 GB of dedicated memory, such as the NVIDIA GTX 1050 or MX450 or higher, to support graphics-intensive design software used in upper-year courses.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aerospace and Mechanical students will use some software that will only run on Windows, e.g., Ansys, Catia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is recommended to upgrade to 16GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD or NVMe drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For any further inquiries please contact Christopher Kirupairajah (<a href=\"mailto:ChrisKirupairajah@cunet.carleton.ca\">ChrisKirupairajah@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minimum computing requirements and configuration recommended for engineering students are: Intel i5 or AMD A10 processor;&nbsp;8GB of RAM; and&nbsp;256 GB SSD hard drive.&nbsp; Please note: students registered in programs offered by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Biomedical and Mechanical, and Sustainable and Renewable Energy \u2013 Stream B) will require a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-1597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8224,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1597\/revisions\/8224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}