New Student User Information

TheCAT (the Computer Action Team) provides computing support to the following departments at PSU:

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Computer Science
Engineering and Technology Management
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science
Systems Engineering

Quick links to things you may need to know.
Most of these are linked in the Students section of the site.

• How to Get an Account
• Getting Help and Contacting Support
• Where to Login - Labs
• Policies and Guidelines for account usage

OS specific information can be found in the Unix/Linux and Windows sections of our site.

Overview of TheCAT website

Main
News, downtime annoucements, new information

Students
Student specific information

Faculty/Staff
Faculty and staff specific information

CS Tutors
Tutoring in CS topics

Windows
MS Windows specific information

Unix/Linux
Unix and Linux specific information

Network
Networking, laptops, wireless, web services

Software
Software specific information

Guidelines
Policies and guidelines for account and computer usage

Other accounts:

OIT : The PSU Office of Information Technologies offers dialup modem access and accounts to all PSU students, faculty and staff. Accounts from OIT are completely separate from your Maseeh College accounts and are not supported by theCAT.

• About OIT accounts:
• OIT Helpdesk