How to Establish Engineering Accounts

Most accounts needed for Engineering classes are opened at the beginning of the semester when the students are registered.

Sometimes accounts are created individually. An account form should be filled out. The form can be downloaded in two formats:

• Account form in PDF
• Account form in MS Word

The form should be faxed to the number on the form, or hand delivered to SIC, Room 306.

Accounts will take 24-48 hours to create.

Usernames and Passwords

Engineering accounts are completely separate from ITS (SMU) accounts. When a new Engineering account is opened, Engineering Computer Operations attempts to match the Engineering username to the ITS username assigned to that individual.

In this way some confusion is avoided about what username should be used for logons. Sometimes the name ITS assigns has already been used in Engineering. In these cases, the Engineering username will differ from the ITS username.

In the beginning, a single password is assigned to each account. When a new user logs onto a PC, the password must be changed. This does not change the password for UNIX. Without coordination, it is possible to have two or more passwords in Engineering.

The passwords in engineering have no relationship to passwords assigned by the University for Access, WebCT, or ITS.

Engineering Accounts

Engineering Email

All Engineering accounts have an email facility. There are several options available. Unless otherwise requested, new engineering student accounts are forwarded to the student's @smu.edu address. This forward can be modified to forward engineering email elsewhere or removed to utilize the engineering email facilities.

Engineering email can be accessed using any IMAP capable mail client such as:

• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Mozilla
• Netscape Communicator
• Outlook (generic Outlook setup instructions)
• Outlook Express (generic Outlook Express setup instructions)
• Eudora

Engineering email IMAP setup values

• Mail Server Type: IMAP
• Incoming (IMAP) server: imap.engr.smu.edu

  Note: This server requires an encrypted (ssl) connection (port 993)

• Outgoing (SMTP) server: smtp.engr.smu.edu

  Note1: This server requires an encrypted (ssl) connection (port 465)
  Note2: This server requires authentication (SMTP AUTH)

Engineering email can be accessed in a terminal window

• pine
• elm

Engineering email can be accessed with a web browser:

• https://engr.smu.edu/email

Information Technology Services

Access, SMU email service, and PPP connection all share common username and password:

• Username: SMU identification number
• Password: SMU email password

Please follow the link for futher instructions: Information Technology Services