Campus and Facilities
Missouri Tech is located in St. Charles, Missouri, just across the Missouri River from West St. Louis County. St. Charles is home to a variety of interesting attractions, including historic buildings, specialty boutique shops, sports and recreational complexes, and lovely parks. Just a 25 minute drive away from the college is St. Louis, gateway to the West. The city is home to the Arch, Laclede’s Landing, and Union Station. Sports fans can enjoy baseball at Busch Stadium, football at the Edwards Jones Dome, or hockey at the Scottrade Center. In addition, visits to the St. Louis Zoo, the Art Museum, and the St. Louis Science Center provide enjoyable cultural learning experiences.
The college is housed in Country Club Plaza just south of Highway 70 on Highway 94. The facilities include large classrooms, a library, a student lounge, and administrative offices. Each classroom is equipped with modern teaching tools, including a digital overhead projector, a quad-core computer, and access to Missouri Tech’s gigabit network. This allows instructors to use audio and video presentations to supplement lectures and to incorporate educational material from the internet. The library is well furnished and serves as a convenient and quiet area suitable for study and computer use. The student lounge has all the amenities necessary for a student to relax in comfort between classes. These include refrigerators, a microwave oven, free coffee, TV, and even a popcorn machine. Financial aid, placement assistance, and registration offices are available on sight and staffed with personnel always ready to assist students.
Learning Resource System
The Missouri Tech Learning Resource System is comprised of four distinct areas that cover a breadth of knowledge from introductory to advanced topics.
The Missouri Tech Library contains a collection of books and reference material appropriate for both technical and general studies. We also receive approximately 40 periodicals on a variety of subjects. Additionally, we offer students the use of the libraries of Washington University and the University of Missouri, St. Louis, two of the preeminent collections in the Midwest, and other libraries through our subscription to the St. Louis Regional Library Network. Within the library are several banks of Intel® Core™2 Duo computers. These computers run the latest software on the Windows 7 operating system connected to the college’s Microsoft Server 2008 Domain. This software includes Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, Visio 2010, and Expressions Suite as well as other applications.
The computer lab provides additional resources for those studying Information Technology. Within the lab are many computers, servers, and other hardware that students may use for experimentation and training. Using this equipment, students can create realistic network simulations using Microsoft Server 2008 with Windows 7 and older operating systems as clients. This is achieved with modern virtualization techniques, allowing students to design network infrastructures that closely mirror those found in production environments. Programmers learn their trade on the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 platform, which is widely used by major software developers. Missouri Tech is a member of the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance which provides students taking computer science classes with free access to operating system, productivity, and development software for educational use. We are also an IT Academy member giving students access to e-learning tools and virtual labs.
The electronics lab contains equipment, components, and instruments that enhance the electronics curriculum. Students have the opportunity to work with circuit trainers, logic analyzers, power meters, frequency counters, transistor checkers, curve tracers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and component testers. All of this equipment is industry standard and in common use. Furthermore, beyond the general lab equipment, we have specialized instruments such as programmable logic controllers and ladder logic simulators, microcontrollers and programming tools, pneumatic and hydraulic trainers and simulators, laser measurement equipment, and materials to make holograms. Students are free to use materials in the electronics lab to pursue extracurricular projects, such as creating a quadrocopter and experimenting with robotics.
Finally, the internet and the digital resources available to students offer a virtually limitless source of information. In addition to the workstations in our library and lab, Missouri Tech provides a campus-wide high-speed internet connection to which students can wirelessly connect via laptops and other devices.
Overall Missouri Tech’s facilities and learning resources provide a high-tech, hands-on, personal learning environment where our students can excel.