Welcome to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

This guideline provides a basic road-map to assist a new member to become aware of the technical resources offered to our faculty members. You will find that not all your questions can be answered here but this document may lead you to where you can find the answers.

Why do you need an account within EECS?
Our department supports compute services for teaching and new members are given a “EECS account” for ease of use within the department to access the softwares provided internally. This account name (appears same as PPY) is different from your “Passport York”, the central, York University account because it accesses a different set of resources. EECS accounts are used for logging into EECS computing systems, printing, accessing the research servers, home directories that are backed up, Course distribution Lists, Internal Grad Web sites, Room Bookings within Lassonde, EECS Mail services, Key Card Access to Lassonde Building -specialized Lab Spaces, Administrative Areas and a series of other services you will discover as needed. Your “EECS” account comes with 1GB of data storage that is backed up nightly. As of March 2020 , some of these services are disabled until further notice..eg printing , access to the Building,etc

This process is currently under review and the eecs email service may not be supported for much longer

Associated with your eecs account is an email (username@eecs.yorku.ca). To access your mail, open any browser and enter the following URL http://mail.eecs.yorku.ca You will be asked to enter your username and then your password eg: username: john ; Password: xxxxxxxxx You now have access to your “EECS” mail
You can forward your email to your preferred mail account. This makes it easier for faculty to receive correspondences from mailing lists within the department
When the EECS email service is discontinued, this process will get updated

If for any reason , you would like to forward your email to another email of choice, you can do so via the web mail interface https://mail.eecs.yorku.ca

Select Mail --> Filters--->
       Select Forward
       Enter the desired email address: (whether it is gmail, hotmail,yorku.....)
       Then Click on "Save and Enable"
       (It is important to click on the "Save and Enable button"  to get the forwards activated immediately

If you are using our eecs Linux desktop, in the labs, your own desktop, indigo.eecs.yorku.ca, red.eecs.yorku.ca, using the terminal at the “$” prompt, Type $ passwd This will prompt you for the existing password. Another line will prompt you to Enter the “New Password” and you will have to Re-enter the new password. You will see a message on the screen telling you that your password will be updated within half an hour. In the interim, the old password will work. If you are using a Windows Desktop, you will need a “ssh” client to remote login to the linux host (indigo.eecs.yorku.ca or red.eecs.yorku.ca) and follow the linux desktop procedures. A good example for an ssh client is “mobaxterm”. This change will update your password to all our eecs resources (mail, printing, etc).

The department supports an email alias “tech@eecs.yorku.ca” . Any questions sent to this email will be handled by a group of dedicated professionals efficiently. This is always faster than sending email to the individual team member's email address. It's a good idea to always send an email to any requests even if you drop by a tech member;s office for a required service. This will give us the opportunity to make sure all requests are completed in a timely manner. We are located on the second floor of the Lassonde Building.(Lassonde Rooms 2033 to 2044)

Associated with your account, is research space. All research faculty get up to 100 GB each. Extra space above 100 GB, up to 500 GB; you pay $1/GB.

THIS PROCESS IS TEMPORARILY DISABLED Your “EECS account name ” is important here. Once you are authenticated within our systems, you will be able to print to the EECS departmental supported printers. Printing documentation can be found : . https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/dept/tdb/printers:start The same follows for mapping your home directory and having your important desktop files backed up on your home directory.

Access to the building will be given on an as need basis. Once you are here, your needs will be assessed and access will be given as required. For Lassonde Bldg, access is handled within EECS. Shermon and Farquarson Bldg, access is set by Security. Bergeron, Ulya has a desktop client that will handle that building. In her absence, send message to jpedias@yorku.ca(Joseph Pedias) and cc tech@eecs.yorku.ca to get the request handled.

Past and Current course web links will be found here EECS Course Web Pages Alternatively , you can host your courses on York's Moodle site(eclass). Eclass Course pages Note also as of September 2020, all courses hosted on this site are from Fall2020. All previous courses are still on the pre-eclass link.
Hosting your course on York's University eclass(Moodle), see the following link https://lthelp.yorku.ca/getting-started-with-moodle
You have access to personal web space. User web space

Departmental Services
Software installed and supported on our systems are also found within the above link.

Once you become a Teaching Faculty with us, the department will consult with you on your computing needs and provide the best solution for you. The Director of Computing will assist in assessing your needs and make recommendations. You will be provided with a temporary workstation until your desktop is purchased.

If you have a portable computer and wants to add to our internal network in place of wifi, please provide us with a “MAC” or Ethernet address of the device . Please note in order to use some of the internal services like printing , mapping your home directory, it's best to have us add your personal device(laptop,macbook) to our local network.

We host your Research Lab Web site . In order to get this set up, you will need to send a request to tech@eecs.yorku.ca

You would need a YU-Card . You will be told this upon hire but sometimes the faculty member gets here and does not have all the information. Link to YU Card Servicehttp://yucard.info.yorku.ca/

Your business cards are handled by the Dean's office located in the Bergeron Center for Engineering Excellence Building. ( Director, Design, Admissions & Recruitment) .Your business card information should outline “FullName, Designation,Department,email,phone number,mailing address,Web address (If needed, otherwise default to lassonde.yorku.ca), Quote for back of card. Our Administrative Assistant would be very happy to assist in this area.

If your office has any problems with the building per se,( eg too hot, too cold , water damage)you can call ext 22404 or email facilities@yorku.ca . Alternatively we have a building supervisor whom we can reports these issues. The email is jpedias@yorku.ca .Any furniture changes, bookshelves , cabinet moved, Joseph Pedias will be happy to assist.

Air York Plus for wireless services - AirYorkPlus
Computing needs from the University - http://computing.yorku.ca/
New Faculty Orientation at York - http://teachingcommons.yorku.ca/for-cds/workshops-and-courses-for-cds/events-2/nfo/
Setting up your Passport York Account - https://passportyork.yorku.ca/ppylogin/ppylogin
Passport York Login - https://passportyork.yorku.ca/ppylogin/ppylogin
Eduroam Services - http://student.computing.yorku.ca/eduroam/
Sponsor Guest Wireless Services - https://askit.yorku.ca/CherwellPortal/ITMain#2

    Select I am an Employee
    You will be prompted to enter your Passport York Username and Password
    Select "Service Request Forms"
     And fill in the appropriate Information