All students enrolled in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) courses are required to have a laptop they can use in classes and for their studies. HCDE recommends the following minimum laptop specifications:

• Intel® or AMD processor with 64-bit support; 2 GHz or faster processor
• 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended)
• 250GB hard drive or larger
• 1280 x 800  and 512 MB of VRAM, 2 GB is recommended
• A newer graphics card is strongly recommended for some photoshop features such as an nVidia GeForce GTX 1050 or equivalent
• Windows 7 with SP1, Windows 10 1809 or greater, or Mac OS X version 10.13.6 (High Sierra) or greater

For information on academic software, please visit the HCDE technical course work and software page.