Zentrum für Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (ZIK) - Centre for Information and Communication Technology
Study programmes in engineering, in the area of design or economics are closely linked with acquiring knowledge and skills in information technology (IT) applications in the respective field of work.
For this purpose, two focal points have emerged in providing guidance for the students and their needs at the University of Applied Sciences:
The centre for information and communication technology (ZIK), a facility of the University of Applied Sciences, is responsible for the planning, functioning and operation of a suitable infrastructure for technological information.
This involves on the one hand providing and maintaining suitable classrooms with networked workplace systems (IT pools), the required peripheral devices (printer, scanner, plotter and suchlike) as well as the corresponding operating system and application software. On the other hand, this comprises networking the computers operated at the University of Applied Sciences with local networks (LAN) and the LAN connection to the locations of the University of Applied Sciences via Landesbildungsnetz (national education network) to external public networks such as scientific networks and the internet. The ZIK plans, implements, operates, updates and maintains the local communication networks and network-based services, e.g. electronic mail, WWW, FTP, forums and chat rooms, the provision of highly available memory space, central data backups etc., as well as responsibility for the security of systems and networks (for instance by setting up firewalls and access lists, providing up-to-date virus and spam filter systems). In order for this general infrastructure to meet the professional requirements of the University of Applied Sciences to the best possible degree, the teachers of the individual faculties, the students and the ZIK staff meet for coordination purposes several times a year in a joint steering committee, the senate committee for information and communication technology (IK Committee).
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