The Department is located both in Holmes Hall, an engineering building that contains modern laboratories, classrooms and shops, and in the Post Building, a recently completed facility. Facilities available to graduate students include: a bioelectricity/bioengineering laboratory, a computer laboratory, a microcomputer design laboratory, a control laboratory, a microwave laboratory, a solid state device processing laboratory, and the University Computing Center. In addition, solar and radio observatories on Haleakala, Maui, and on Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi, the extensive facilities of the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics, and the oceanographic facilities of the Look Laboratory are available.The main campus of the University of Hawaiʻi is located in the Mānoa Valley of Honolulu, a cosmopolitan and modern city in Hawaiʻi. Honolulu's racial blend, pleasant climate and natural beauty offer students many excellent cultural and recreational opportunities. The University of Hawaiʻi conducts a wide variety of programs in education, research and service for the state, the nation and the world community. It operates teaching and research facilities at more than 50 locations throughout the Hawaiʻian Islands and also participates in international service and research activities among the Pacific Basin and Asian countries. The University includes, in addition to the Mānoa Campus in Honolulu, two other four-year campuses on the islands of Oahu and Hawaiʻi, four Community Colleges in Oahu, and one Community College each on Maui, Hawaiʻi, and Kauai. The University of Hawaiʻi offers course work leading to the bachelor's degree in 123 fields. The Office of Graduate Education offers work leading to the master's degree in 93 fields and to the doctorate in 52 fields. There are around 20,000 students on the Mānoa Campus. The Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West, Inc., a project of the Federal government in association with the University of Hawaiʻi, is located on the Honolulu campus, offering many opportunities for cross-cultural understanding among individuals outside of the classrooms. The Thomas Hale Hamilton Library houses over 3,000,000 volumes arranged in open-stack fashion. The graduate library extension provides space for 955 readers and houses the main book and periodical collections of the University. In addition, the university library also has many electronic subscriptions of key journals and publications, e.g., IEEE Explore digital library, which includes most recent IEEE journals and conference proceedings.