Instructional Resources

To help students obtain competitive advantages in the real working environments from classrooms and to help students to acquire the knowledge through hands-on modern methodology effectively and efficiently, SVU participates in many university programs provided by the leading companies in their industries, such as Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Cadence. Students who learn the usage of the emerging tools in the real world can definitely grant themselves better job opportunities. SVU’s instructional resources aim to do just that.

Apple iOS Developer University Program Membership

SVU has joined the Apple iOS Developer University Program to provide a wide range of technical resources to assist students in design, development, and testing. The iOS apps include iOS Dev Center, iOS Developer Library, and Development Videos.

Microsoft Azure for Education Membership

SVU has subscribed to Microsoft Azure for Education membership to make the latest Microsoft software available in labs and classrooms. The Microsoft Azure program offers Microsoft developer tools for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, including the up-to-date Visual Studio, Windows Operating Systems, Windows Server, .NET Framework, computer cluster server, Mobile SDK and more than 300 tools.

Oracle Academy Membership

SVU is a member of Oracle Academy. SVU provides Oracle 11g Real Application Cluster (RAC) Enterprise version database to students and faculty. Oracle RAC database services is a shared cache clustered database architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk architectures for unbeatable database performance, scalability and reliability without requiring changes to existing Oracle Database applications. Oracle RAC has been successfully deployed by thousands of Oracle customers, allowing these customers to use clustered database servers for a simplified, efficient and successful delivery of Database Services on the Cloud.

Higher Education User Group and University Alliance Program of SAP Membership

SVU has formed a membership with Higher Education User Group (HEUG) and University Alliance Program offered by SAP (Acronym of Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) North America to use the tools from SAP software for faculty members and students to enhance the academic and professional learning outcomes.

Google G Suite

SVU partnered with Google G suite, a cloud productivity suite containing a collection of enterprise-based products accessible anywhere through the cloud. G Suite core set of applications include Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Google+, Hangouts Meet, Hangouts Chat, Sites, and Groups. Students can collaborate with each other, SVU instructors, and SVU administration, while maintaining a highly secure, reliable, and compliant environment for SVU.

Data Communication/Telecommunication

SVU offers a state-of-the-art network equipment such as Cisco routers, Dell switches, Linksys wireless routers, Apple Computer wireless routers, Cisco VPN remote access servers. Students can access these resources from any onsite networked workstation or remote to configure or control those equipment.

Linux/Unix Private Cluster Node

The Linux/Unix system is provided to students in labs to understand the cloud computing paradigm and framework. The cloud computing infrastructure can be used for sharing, scheduling, reliability, availability, elasticity, privacy, provisioning and geographic replication.

Learning Resource Center & Library

The Learning Resource Center is located in the library. The Learning Resource Center is equipped woith DELL Inspiron All-In-One PCs with internet access, and printers/copiers for the students to use on a first-come-first-serve basis.

As part of its effort to provide instruction using the latest internet technologies, the university has established a web-based Electronic Resource Center. The center is a digital research facility, created to provide students with the opportunity to make the most use of vast information resources available on the internet.

The university has an onsite library which contains publications in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, and General Education. Faculty members and students can access major professional journals and scholarly articles through nationally acclaimed database such as ACM, and IEEE. To use SVU’s e-Library to access the onsite library catalog, the user will have to login with the Use ID/Password that was assigned and approved by the SVU librarian.

The university library / Learning Resource Center serves its students and faculty free of charge. The library has thousands of hard copy materials in its collections. Both students and faculty also have access to SVU’s e-library. Students are expected to follow the university library policy while using these resources.

SVU students have convenient access to a number of excellent libraries including San Jose State University (SJSU) and Cal State University East Bay (CSUEB). Students can also obtain free library cards from the Alameda County and Santa Clara County public library system, and make use of the Link+ unified catalog system as well.