All incoming Engineering students are required to have a laptop computer for use in their academic studies.
Alumni and retirees are not included in the university's licensing terms with Microsoft. For more information on alumni and retirees, see Office 365 Accounts for Those Who Leave U-M. Note: U-M Box, U-M Dropbox, and U-M Google are the recommended services for collaboration at the university. U-M Microsoft Office 365 is available to current University of Michigan faculty, staff, students, sponsored affiliates, and emeritus with regular (not temporary) uniqnames. Alumni and retirees are not included in the university's licensing terms with Microsoft.For more information on alumni and retirees, see Office 365 Accounts for Those Who Leave U-M. For personal Windows-based computers, students can download Skype for Business at no cost as part of the Microsoft Office suite via Office 365 in myCommunity. See installation instructions. For personal Mac computers, Microsoft offers a free download of Microsoft Lync 2011 for Mac. While the College of Design at the University of Kentucky was established in 2002, it has a storied history of almost 100 years of study on campus; its foundation in architecture created in the College of Engineering in the 1920s, and later, the residential design program the start of interior design study in the College of Home Economics (now the School of Human Environmental Sciences). This tutorial will show you how to check if your Outlook for Mac is correctly configured to work with Office 365 email. These steps will work before or after the UK mail migration. Read more about Prepare your Mac Outlook for UK Mail Migration.
Dell and Apple have been the preferred vendors of The University of Kentucky for several years, and through these relationships UK students and employees receive discounts on computers and other items purchased through the UK Dell discount site and UK Apple Employee/Student discount site. Engineering students may also purchase Microsoft Surface Book 2 computers at a discount through Engineering’s private Microsoft Store.
UK Students are not required to purchase computers from Dell or Apple, but any laptop you choose should meet or exceed the Engineering’s minimum specifications.
Calculators
Which calculator a student can use in a class, at least on their tests, is determined by the individual faculty members. In the first few semesters, students will generally be allowed to use calculators that are allowed on the SAT, ACT, or AP tests (basically, calculators that are not capable of performing symbolic manipulations). The Texas Instrument’s TI-84 plus falls into this category, as do similar Hewlett-Packard models. Later in their academic careers students will be able to use more powerful models.
Additional Information
Purchase Microsoft Office For Mac
Though students will have access to Google or Microsoft cloud drives, we recommend that students have an external hard drive to back their computer up to. They should also have a couple inexpensive thumb/jump drives for use as needed.
Microsoft Office For Mac
If you have questions not covered here, please contact Lynn Tilley (lynn.tilley@uky.edu or 859-257-3452) in Engineering’s Computing Services group.