The School Research Lab is a national show-case lab equipped with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure and IT support. Established in 1999, the Research Lab is on the 3rd & 4th floors of the EMS Building. It has been one of the school’s key projects since 2005 under the Chinese national drives called the “211” and “985” projects. During 2005-2009, the average annual investment was about 3million yuan per year. In 2007, the Lab was recognized with the title of ‘Model of Experimental Teaching Centre’ for Hubei Province. In 2008, the Centre was recognized as a Chinese National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centre. The Lab’s IT infrastructure and supports are illustrated as follows:
Items |
Amount |
Total areas of the laboratory centre |
Over 3000 square meters |
Servers, computer equipment and auxiliary equipment |
Over 1200 PCs and more(with a total value more than 16 million yuan) |
Foreign recognized experimental teaching software |
15 kinds |
Domestic experimental teaching software |
35kinds |
Database in Chinese |
More than 20 kinds |
Database in English or other languages |
More than 20 kinds |
In addition to its role as a public student and staff laboratory, our IT facilities also have specialist additional facilities for teaching on PCs and related stimulation software operation for various specific Chinese industries. In essence, there are specialist experimental laboratories that undertake strategic simulations, and personnel evaluations located in various rooms within the EMS Building. We have installed software related to strategic simulations, human resource appraisal, ERP and other teaching evaluation and simulation software. The overall aim is to provide students with online literature search, data processing, essay writing and other conditions and places. The experimental centre is equipped with eight full-time staff, with middle and senior professional titles who are responsible for equipment storage, maintenance and test operations counselling, In addition, the laboratory is also equipped with two part-time teachers who work as instructors.
The Lab is open all day on weekdays, and the software and data are updated frequently. A list of software and database available in the lab :
Database
BvD Global Finance Analysis and States’ Macroeconomic Indexes |
Emerging Markets Information Service |
CSMAR |
The Industry Database of China Macroeconomic |
The Database of Industrial Enterprises |
The Database of Imports and Exports |
IFIND |
GTAP |
The Database of China’s Manufacturing Industry |
The Database of Product Output of Industrial Enterprise |
Econlit with Full Text |
Wind |
China Scope Financial |
CCXE |
softwares
SAS |
Stata/SE11.0 |
SPSS 19.0 |
Limdep/Nlogit3 |
GAMS22 |
Lisrel8.8 |
OxMetrics 4 |
GAUSS 8 |
Eviews 6.0 |
Microsoft Project 2007 |
LINGO V11.0 Hyper |
Decision Tools Suite Industrial Course License |
Winrats 7 Professional |
GAUSSplot V8.0 for GAUSS |
MatalabR2011b |
Cats 2.0 |
Mathematica |
NVIVO V9 |
Accounting Training Teaching Software |
Finance Simulation Teaching System |
Finance Teaching Simulation System |
Human Resource Evaluation Teaching Software |
Hotel Management Teaching Simulation System |
Travel Agency Management Teaching Simulation System |
Property Management Teaching Simulation Software |
Supply Chain Management Teaching Software |
Supply Chain Simulation Software - Beer Game |
Commercial Banks’ Integrated Service Simulation System |
Credit Business and Risk Management Simulation System |
Shen Yi465 (online) - Audit Simulation Teaching Software |
International Settlement Simulation System |
International Trade Simulation Teaching System |
3D Artificial Intelligence Design of Logistics Software |
Warehouse Management Teaching Softwar |
Third-part Logistics Teaching Software |
Commercial Distribution Logistics Teaching Software |
Marketing Skills Sandbox Simulation Software |
Marketing Strategy and Management Sandbox Simulation Software |
UFIDA ERP-U8 |
Tax Inspection Simulation System |
Tax Practice Simulation Teaching System |
Electronic Tax Reporting Simulation System |
Actuarial Simulation System (Life Insurance) |
Actuarial Simulation System (Non-life Insurance) |
Tax Planning Simulation System |
Business Operating Decision Simulation Software |
Business Operation Analysis and Prediction System |
FMD |