The University of New South Wales

Notice of Meeting



A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee (CSE Education Committee 24/02)
will be held at 12:00pm on Friday, 15 March 2024, on Teams.

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

John Shepherd
Committee Chair

Agenda

    TimeItemSpeaker
    2 mins 1. Opening of Meeting, recording of those present, and apologies

    Apologies: Jake Renzella, Andrew Taylor, Paul Hunter, Claude Sammut    		 John Shepherd
    2 mins 2. Confirmation of Minutes of Previous Meeting held on 09 February 2029 John Shepherd
    6 mins 3. Review of Action Sheet John Shepherd
      ITEMS FOR DECISION  
    5 mins 4.1 Education Committee Updated Terms of Reference

    Little change from last year, except for the addition of new education-related roles (Director of Advanced CS and Director of Teaching), addition of Head of CSG, and removal of Chair of CMAC (a Committee which has not met for many years)
    2024 Terms of Reference
    		 John Shepherd
    10 mins 4.2 WiseTech "Earn-and-Learn" Proposal"

    WiseTech have a proposal to employ students while they study. Currently in use with UTS. The catch: they want to teach COMP1511 themselves and get us the RPL it, let students into higher level courses sooner, and follow a non-standard study plan (but respecting pre-reqs).     		Jake Renzella
    20 mins 4.3 New Security Program Proposals

    • Bachelor of Cyber Security (Program Outline)
    • COMP1337 Foundations of Cyber Security (ECLIPS)
    • COMP2449 Cyber Security Workshop 1 - Penetration Testing (ECLIPS)
    • COMP3449 Cyber Security Workshop 2 - Defence (ECLIPS)
    • COMP6446 Cloud Security (ECLIPS)
    • COMP6959 Cyber Security Workshop 3 - Capstone (ECLIPS)
    • COMP9442 Cyber Security Fundamentals (ECLIPS)
    • COMP9443 Security Engineering Principles (ECLIPS)
    • COMPXXXX Privacy Engineering (ECLIPS)
    • COMP2218 Human Centric Security (ECLIPS)
    • COMP6XXX Hardware Security (ECLIPS)
    		Salil Kanhere
    Richard Buckland
    5 mins 4.4 SENG Co-op First-year Study Plan

    The study plan drawn up by the Co-op office has SENG Co-op students studying COMP1511 and COMP1521 together in their second term of study. This does not make sense. It happened because we reserved COMP1511 T1 for COMPA1 only. Should we allow SENG Co-op into COMP1511 T1?     		Imran Razzak
    Andrew Taylor
      ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION  
    10 mins 5.1 Use of Bloom.AI in CSE

    Bloom is an "intelligent" tutoring system, based on an LLM, developed in the Business School and spun-off into a start-up. The system ingests course content and is therefore able to provide more specific answers to student queries than asking questions to a more generic LLM platform. They have been lobbying CSE academics to trial it in their courses. Should we?

    5 mins 5.2 Faculty Proposal for Assessment Finalisation

    The Faculty has a proposal for how assessment finalisation should take place at the end of each term. Fortunately, it largely corresponds with what we already do. Do we want to change anything in light of this
    Faculty Results Procedure     		John Shepherd
    5 mins 5.3 Running Lab Exams

    Currently lab exams are handled primarily by a casual. While this is done very competently, we need a more long-term sustainable process.

    This was discussed at the previous EdC meeting; should it simply move to an Action Item?

    		John Shepherd
    10 mins 5.4 Running Non-lab Exams

    UNSW seems to have difficulties with running invigilated CSE-scale exams. We can do lab-based exams ourselves. Can we do non-lab-based exams? Should we have to?     		Raveen De Silva
    10 mins 5.5 Return of Semesters?

    It is possible that UNSW might return to a two-semester timetable in 2027. Is this necessarily a good thing?     		Everyone
      ITEMS FOR NOTING AND INFORMATION  
    5 mins 6.1. Report(s) from Committees outside CSE Anybody
    5 mins 6.2. Report on Cyber Security Programs Working Group Salil Kanhere
    10 mins 6.3. Report on UNSW Online Rahat Masood
    Raymond Wong
    10 mins 6.4. Report on Workload Committee/Formula Wayne Wobcke
    ? mins 6.5. Any Other Business  
      7. Schedule of Meetings for 2024
    • Friday 15 March, 12-2, Teams
    • Wednesday 24 April, 12-2, Venue?
    • Friday 14 June, 12-2, Venue?
    • Friday 19 July, 12-2, Venue?
    • Wednesday 7 August, 12-2, Venue?
    • Friday 13 September, 12-2, Venue?
    • Friday 11 October, 12-2, Venue?
    • Wednesday 20 November, 12-2, Venue?
    		 
      8. Closure