The Department attaches importance to the practical work of students. Academic programmes and research activities are well supported with a wide range of computing facilities available in the departmental Computing Laboratories (located at 6/F of PQ Wing, 4/F of QT Wing and 5/F of QT Wing) and the University's Information Technology Services Office (ITS) via the departmental Local Area Network (LAN). The departmental LAN consists mainly of 1Gbps UTP Ethernet segments interconnected together using the state-of-art gigabit network switches, which are provided and maintained by the University. The departmental LAN is also connected to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus Gigabit Network and then to the Internet. The Internet connection is used for web access, electronic mail, internet news, remote logins, file transfers, and other forms of interaction with the world-wide computing community.

A wide variety of computing hardware and software is available to support both the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. While some of the computing facilities mentioned in the list are located in the offices of academic staff and research staff, most of them are located in the departmental Computing Laboratories.