The University of New South Wales

Minutes of Meeting



Minutes of the meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee (CSE Education Committee 18/04)
held at 12:00pm on Friday, 5th October 2018, in Room 103 (HoS Meeting Room), Computer Science Building.

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

John Shepherd
Committee Chair


Present: John Shepherd (JAS) (chair), Maurice Pagnucco (MP) (HoS), Andrew Taylor (AT), Annie Guo (HG), Fethi Rabhi (FR), Bruno Gaeta (BG), Eric Martin (EM), Michael Thielscher (MIT), Hui Wu (HW), Wen Hu (WH)
Apologies: Alan Blair
Absent: -
In Attendance: Jashank Jeremy (JJ), Andrew Bennett (AB), Evan Kohilas (EK)
  Present / Quorum:   8 / 5   (quorum 5 reached)

  1. Apologies and Welcome

    Meeting commenced at 1:10pm


  2. Minutes of Previous Meeting *

    CSE Education Committee 18/03 (7 July 2018)

    Minutes are incomplete.


  3. Reports from Bodies outside CSE

    Not much to report. UNSW3+ is the "big ticket" item for the near future.


  4. 4th Year Theses

    HW described the Faculty proposal. CSE's current model fits in with the Faculty proposal. Much discussion about completing Thesis B/C together.


  5. Student Misconduct Procedures

    MIT outlined the volume of cases that he had to deal with and proposed that cases be handled as much as possible by the central student misconduct unit.


  6. Enrolment Numbers

    We have no control over numbers of incoming students, especially PG coursework. UNSW enrols them on our behalf. ATAR assists (slightly) in limiting domestic UG students. How international UG students are enrolled is a mystery.

    Discussion on how to deal with very large courses. Solution: a large lecture theatre and a WEB stream.


  7. WEB streams

    A message was placed in the enrolment pages for each WEB stream that the course was not a Distance Education offering.


  8. UNSW3+ Readiness

    All course readiness forms were submitted, except those for the Cyber Security courses.


  9. Any Other Business