The University of New South Wales
Notice of Meeting
A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee
CSE Education Committee 24/09)
will be held at noon on Friday, 11 October 2024,
in K17-113 (Seminar Room).
There will also be a Teams link for
those unable to attend in person.
Enquiries concerning this agenda should be directed to John Shepherd, jas@cse.unsw.edu.au.
John Shepherd
Committee Chair
Process Reviews of Results promptly
Review Assessment weightings for 25T1 courses in ECLIPS soon
video tutorial: https://youtu.be/dq525aRC9kQ (ignore if it says 24T3)Submit Term Planning information promptly when TSAs ask
Assessment (exam) Planning will be done "centrally" from now on
| Time | Item | Speaker |
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| 2 mins | 1. Opening of Meeting, recording of those present, and apologies
Apologies: xxx |
John Shepherd |
| 2 mins | 2. Confirmation of Minutes of Previous Meeting held on 13 September 2024 | John Shepherd |
| 4 mins | 3. Review of Action Sheet | John Shepherd |
| THINGS TO REMEMBER | ||
| 5 mins | 4.1 Things to Note | John Shepherd |
| ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION | ||
| 20 mins | 5.1 Combined Program with HUST Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) has proposed a number of combined programs with UNSW, including Computer Science. For the CS degree, the idea is for students to undertake their first two years of study at HUST, using standard HUST courses. They then study two more years of UNSW courses at HUST and receive degrees from both HUST and UNSW. Jake Renzella, Annie Guo and Alan Blairhave spent some time considering relationships between HUST and UNSW courses and have developed a mapping which seems to lead to a reasonable study outcome. How the UNSW courses will be delivered is still an open question.
We need to discuss whether this arrangement has benefits to CSE,
and whether we can deliver what HUST wants.
There is, so far, no formal proposal in ECLIPS for the program.
This meetings is an opportunity to influence the shape of such
a proposal.
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| 20 mins | 5.2 Workload and Course Offerings 2025 Wayne Wobcke has spent some refining the workload formula, after discussions with a range of academics. He has also drawn up a list of course offering for 2025 and largely completed the teaching allocations for those offerings. |
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| 10 mins | 5.3 New Course: No-code AI AI is hot, and everybody wants to know about it. This has led to a plethora of so-called "AI/ML" courses in various disciplines, which typically teach a small aspect of AI/ML and then give a range of applications to their discipline. Their teaching of AI is questionable, and occupies some weeks of the course which could be better dedicated to exploring more discipline-specific applications. This course aims to give a general introduction to AI and how it can be applied. It would be suitable as a General Education unit and could be an entree into the discipline-specific courses. And it will hopefully attract many enrolments (which, of course, CSE is desperately short of). |
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| 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 |
| 5 mins | 6.3. Report on UNSW Online | |
| 5 mins | 6.4. Report on Workload Committee/Formula (covered in 5.2) | |
| ANY OTHER BUSINESS | ||
| 7. Closure |