Computing Support for Graduate Students
During your time with the CSE department you find that there are a vast array of services provided by the university that you will need to interact with. This will range for filling in forms on simple web applications to working with complex research equipment. The number of different groups you will come in contact with is innumerable. The following pages will provide you the basic information you need for the most common computing related services that you will deal with. You may need to interact with a variety of different groups for support on specialized applications or specialized equipment. If you find yourself looking through these pages and not finding the answer that you seek, please contact CSEHelp (csehelp@cs.ucsd.edu) and let us know what you need. We will try to point you in the right direction and build up the content on the department's web site to help people looking for similar information in the future.
Below is a list of some of the common things that you will need assistance setting up or working with during your time with CSE. Please click on one of the areas below to get more detailed information on each subject:
All graduate students:
- Accounts/resetting your password
- Mailing lists
- Calendaring
- Conference rooms
- Wireless network
- Campus VPN
- Printing
- Department servers
- Personal web space
- Software
- Support for graduate student classes
- Resources for instructors and TAs
- Building issues
Masters students:
PhD students:
- Your office
- Keys/ID cards
- Wired network connections
- Ordering hardware or software for research projects
- Research servers
In addition to the above information, the CSE Graduate Student Association web site has quite a bit of useful information about life in the CSE department.

