The University of New South Wales

Notice of Meeting

A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee (CSE Education Committee 21/04)
will be held at 10:00am on Friday, 09 July 2021, via Zoom.

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

John Shepherd
Committee Chair

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Agenda

1. Apologies and Welcome




2. Minutes of Previous Meeting *

   CSE Teaching Committee 21/03 (4 June 2021)




3. Reports from Bodies outside CSE

   Reports on any interesting/relevant devlopments that have occurred in committees, work-groups, etc. at UNSW.

   Engineering Academic Programs committee:

   • ...
   • ...



4. New Course: COMP6xxx Recommender Systems

   A new proposal from Lina Yao for a course to look at the theory and applications of recomender systems.

   Proposal: COMP6xxx Recommender Systems




5. New Course: COMP6991 Rust Programming

   A new proposal from Andrew Taylor and a cast of thousands for a course to introduce the Rust programming language.

   Proposal: COMP6991 Rust Programming




6. New Course: COMP6772 Advanced Software Engineering via C++

   Re-visiting a proposal for a new C++ course, which may involve a revision of COMP6771.

   Proposal: COMP6772 Advanced Software Engineering via C++




7. Course Offerings 2022

   It's time to start planning for next year. One significant planned change is to run COMP1521, COMP1531 and COMP2511 in every term. We should also try to balance the number of courses offered in each term; at present we have too many courses in T3, relative to the other terms.

   A (very) preliminary teaching allocation for 2022 is available.




8. Assessment Practices in CSE

   We received several major complaints from students in 21T1

   • assessments where work was *required* in Flex Week
   • assignment/project marks not available before exam
   • final exam too much work for 2-hours
   • no information given about final exam format
   • no sample exam given (similar to above point)
   
   

   We need to do better. Need more serious review of exams.




9. Accreditation

   The Engineers Australia visit is on July 26-28:

   • July 26, 12-1.30, Head of School
   • July 26, 2-3.30, DHoS(edu), AHoS(edu), Directors of Studies
   • July 27, 11.30-12.30, All Academic staff
   • July 27, 3.30-4.15, Technical and Admin staff
   • July 28, 4.15-5.15, Virtual Tour of Laboratories
   • July 28, 5-6, Industry Advisory Board and Recent Graduates
   
   This hopefully renews the accreditation of the BE(Hons) degrees: Bioinformatics Engineering, Computer Engineering and Software Engineering.

   All material has been collected and made available to EngAust.

   The ACS accreditation visit is on July 29:

   • July 29, 9.30-10, School presentation on ICT job roles
   • July 29, 10-11, DHos(edu), AHoS(edu), Directors of Studies
   • July 29, 11.30-12.30, All Academic/Teaching staff
   • July 29, 1.30-2.30, Tour of Laboratories & Teaching Facilities
   • July 29, 2.30-3.30, current students and recent graduates
   • July 29, 4.30-5, Head of School, DHoS(edu), AHoS(edu)
   
   This hopefully renews the accreditation of all degrees: the three BE(Hons) degrees, plus Comp Sci and MIT.

   ACS requires a different curriculm mapping to EngAust, which will require assistance from academic staff.




10. Any Other Business