BMI Internal Resources Home Page

These pages describe services offered by BMI Systems personnel and contain links to resources that may be useful to faculty, staff, postdocs, and grad students.

The Forms & Templates page contains cut and paste templates for submitting publications, downloadable templates for PowerPoint presentations, downloadable logos, and links to a personnel information form.

The FAQs & Resources page contains links to internal policies and procedures, describes how to use web-based resources, and lists deadlines for papers and conferences, in addition to listing web-based resources and information for department personnel.

Services Offered by Systems Staff

The Systems Committee (systems@lists.bmi.ohio-state.edu) is responsible for assigning BMI web development and systems infrastructure tasks and setting their priority. All requests should be sent to the Systems Committee and will be queued by the Committee according to their urgency and importance to the department.

Web Design and Technical Writing

• review and edit papers prior to publication
• review important presentations
• assist in documenting software projects
• design project web sites
• help establish personal web space on the BMI web server
• help design or optimize 2-D graphics (for the web, presentations, papers)
• post seminar and news announcements and perform other "fixes" to BMI web sites

Hardware, Networking, Infrastructure

• manage machine accounts and create new accounts
• assemble, install, and configure new computers, including clusters
• allocate software and advise the purchase of software and hardware
• manage network resources and install and configure new wiring, switches and other networking equipment
• troubleshoot software and hardware