The University of New South Wales

Minutes of Meeting: CSE-EdC 16/4



A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee
was held at 12pm Friday 7 October 2016 in room K17-103 (HoS Meeting Room).

Agenda


    1. Apologies and Welcome

      The meeting commenced at 12:10pm.

      Attending:
      John Shepherd (chair), Wen Hu, Andrew Bennett, Bruno Gaeta, Helen Paik, Eric Martin, Annie Guo, Fethi Rabhi
      Apologies:
      Maurice Pagnucco, Alan Blair

    2. Minutes of Previous Meeting *

      John Shepherd pointed attendees to the minutes of the previous meeting on 8 July 2016.


    3. Reports from Bodies outside CSE

      Most of the proposals have been fully approved. The full list includes:

      • New course: COMP1511 Introduction to Programming
      • New course: COMP1521 Computer Systems Fundamentals
      • New course: COMP1531 Software Engineering Fundamentals
      • New course: COMP2511 Object-oriented Languages and Programming
      • New course: COMP2521 Data Structures and Algorithms
      • New course: COMP3900 Computer Science Project
      • New course: COMP6441 Security Engineering
      • New course: COMP6841 Extended Security Engineering
      • New course: COMP6443 Web Application Security and Testing
      • New course: COMP6843 Extended Web Application Security and Testing
      • New course: COMP6445 Digital Forensics
      • New course: COMP6845 Extended Digital Forensics and Incident Response
      • New course: COMP6447 System and Software Security Assessment
      • New course: COMP6448 Security Engineering Masterclass
      • New course: COMP6449 Security Engineering Professional Practice
      • New course: COMP9337 Securing Wireless Networks
      • New course: COMP9447 Security Engineering Workshop
      • New course: COMP9900 Information Technology Project
      • New stream: COMPJ1 Programming Languages
      • New stream: COMPY1 Security Engineering
      • Revised stream: COMPA1 Computer Science
      • Revised stream: COMPD1 Database Systems
      • Revised stream: COMPE1 Electronic Commerce
      • Revised stream: COMPI1 Artificial Intelligence
      • Revised stream: COMPN1 Computer Networks
      • Revised stream: COMPS1 Embedded Systems
      • Revised stream: COMPAS Artificial Intelligence
      • Revised stream: COMPBS Bioinformatics
      • Revised stream: COMPCS Information Technology
      • Revised stream: COMPDS Database Systems
      • Revised stream: COMPES e-Commerce Systems
      • Revised stream: COMPGS Geospatial
      • Revised stream: COMPIS Internetworking
      • Revised stream: COMPSS Data Science and Engineering
      • New Program: 3778 BSc in Computer Science (actually a revision)
      • Revised program: 8543 Master of Information Technology

      One approval that hasn't yet gone through, but is being discussed at the University Academic Programs Committee this morning is 3778 Computer Science.


    4. Status of Academic Proposals (new streams/courses)

      The above item covers the status of the proposals.

      JAS noted that all courses to be run in 2017 had people assigned to develop their syllabi in more detail, if not necessarily teach them. COMP1511: JAS to develop and teach, COMP1521: Sri Parameswaran to develop, COMP1531: Fethi Rabhi to develop, COMP2521: JAS to develop and teach. Raymond Wong has agreed to develop the COMP9900 Information Technology Project course, which will first run in 17s2. Initially, it will be a relatively small postgraduate course, but needs to be able to scale to larger numbers, including COMP3900 Computer Science project.


    5. Update on Review of Software Engineering Program

      Fethi Rabhi described the process that had been followed in the SE Program review, including consultation with industry and current and potential students. The overall design consulted the ACM curricula in IT and Software Engineering and the IEEE SWEBOK. The process has been extensively documented.


    6. Review of MIT Degree Structure and Core Courses

      Eric Martin will initiate discussion within the School on we how might better structure the MIT degree offering so that students have sufficient, relevant courses to choose from for each semester of their study.


    7. Implementing the new Core Courses

      Item 4 above indicates who will develop the new course material.


    8. Teaching at Scale

      Some discussion on the potential problems (including Echo360 as a basis for WEB streams). This is ongoing work.


    9. For noting: Accreditation Status

      We are close to coming to an agreement with ACS on accreditation.


    10. For noting: New CATEI

      MyExperience surveys have now run. Response rates have improved. Results are not yet available.


    11. Any Other Business

      None.


    12. Any Other Business

      The meeting closed at 1:30pm.