College of Engineering
Office of College Computing
Student Owned Computing (SOC) Requirement
Since the 1998-1999 academic year (class of 2003), the University of Cincinnati, College of Engineering, has required entering freshmen to own a personal computer (PC) before the end of their freshmen year. The goal of this program has been and continues to be to provide the best possible engineering education for our students competitive with any engineering program. This goal requires that students in the College of Engineering provide the basic computing environment that they will need for their academic program. This basic computing environment includes word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail, network access/browse capabilities as well as limited engineering computing capabilities (language compilers, math packages, etc.).