The mission of the Mosaic Computing is:

Deliver and maintain a computing environment to our student, faculty and staff constituents with the following goals:

The Mosaic infrastructure is designed around the AFS Enterprise File System which provides single sign-on authentication, private and public networked disk storage, flexible user initiated file sharing, and robust online and offline backups. The Engineering Computing group maintains and supports the Mosaic infrastructure, providing users with a single environment that is available from any Mosaic system in any location. The primary desktop platform is Windows XP, with a number of Sun Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux based PCs. Each platform has a wide variety of available software applications ranging from simple office productivity tools like word processors and spreadsheets to complex engineering design tools like AutoCAD and ProEngineer. In total, Mosaic supports approximately 200 application packages, on over 1000 computers and serves nearly 2500 users.

The Mosaic Engineering Computing group also maintains student computing labs and classrooms in the Smith, Woodward, Duke and Cameron Hall buildings and provides a variety of other services including web servers, distance learning classrooms and applications, remote access services for home based users, printing, administrative database support, help desk and telephone support, and hardware support services.