The University of New South Wales

Notice of Meeting



A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Teaching Committee (CSE Teaching Committee 19/06)
will be held at 10:00am on Friday, 06 December 2019, in Room 103 (HoS Meeting Room), Computer Science Building.

Enquiries concerning this agenda should be directed to John Shepherd, extension +61293856494, jas@cse.unsw.edu.au.

John Shepherd
Committee Chair

Agenda


  1. Apologies and Welcome


  2. Minutes of Previous Meeting *

    CSE Teaching Committee 19/05 (04 October 2019)


  3. Reports from Bodies outside CSE

    John Shepherd will report on any interesting/relevant devlopments that have occurred in committees, working-groups, etc. at UNSW.

    Deferred at Engineering Programs Committee:

    • SENG co-op industry placements as courses
    • Online Masters in Cyber Security
    • Data Science in Electrical Engineering

  4. New Program: Online Masters in Cyber Security

    Richard Buckland and Ben Turnbull (UNSW Canberra) are developing a suite of online programs to cater for the burgeoning demand for Cyber Security professionals.

    Proposals in AIMS:


  5. New Course: COMP6080 Web Front-end Programming

    Later year project courses often require students to build systems with Web interfaces. Many students are inadequtely prepared to do this effectively. A group of former students, now working in industry (Canva), have proposed a new course to address this. Andrew Taylor will present the proposal.

    Proposals in AIMS:


  6. UNSW Online Courses

    UNSW Online manages UNSW's ever-growing online offerings. The online programs are made up of courses that run entirely in online mode, with one "online lecturer" looking after a group of 30 students in the course (like a large tute group). Courses are run in Hexamesters (different timetable to trimesters). Each course runs for 8 weeks: O-week, 6-weeks teaching, one week for exams/marking. And then the next Hexamester starts. The only downtime is over the Christmas/NewYear break.

    Online programs currently include:

    • Master of Data Science (run out of Maths)
    • Master of Data Analytics (run out of ASB)
    • Master of Cyber Security (will run out of CSE from 2021)

    CSE currently offers, or will soon offer, in these programs:

    • ZZEN9021 Principles of Programming (offered twice in 2020)
    • ZZEN9311 Database Systems (offered twice in 2020)
    • ZZEN9313 Big Data Management (offered twice? in 2020)
    • ZZEN9444 Neural Networks, Deep Learning
    • ZZEN6714 Information Retrieval and Web Search

    There are also ~8 courses for the Cyber Security masters, with up to 5 running in every hexamester. The teaching in some will be shared with UNSW Canberra and Law.


  7. Update on DESN2000/3000

    The structure of DESN2000 is becoming clearer. There seems to be scope for CSE to run their projects as they like. The "design" component seems to have been scaled back.


  8. Software Project Management Courses

    The courses:

    • COMP1531 Software Engineering Fundamentals
    • COMP2511 Object-oriented Design and Implementation
    • COMP3900 Computer Science Project
    • COMP4920 Ethics and Management
    • COMP9900 Information Technology Project

    all cover aspects of software project management. They were designed independently and consequently have overlaps, disjointedness, etc. We need to redesign these courses so that they form a coherent stream within our programs.


  9. Concept Mapping of CSE Courses

    There is some concern that topics are being duplicated across multiple courses. We need to check:

    • course pre-reqs (assumed knowledge, not just courses)
    • course learning outcomes
    • course schedules (concepts being taught)

    This mapping will be carried out before the first EdC meeting in 2020 for discussion at that meeting.


  10. Any Other Business