The University of New South Wales

Notice of Meeting



A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Teaching Committee (CSE Teaching Committee 19/05)
will be held at 1:00pm on Friday, 04 October 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 19/04 (02 August 2019)


  3. Reports from Bodies outside CSE

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


  4. Changes to Software Eng Co-op

    Students have been dropping out from the Software Eng Co-op program, ostensibly because of the 5-year duration. The extended duration occurs because industry placements are carried out outside term time. Co-op and the Software Eng Director of Studies are proposing to fit Software Eng Co-op into 4 years by using some of the "slots" that would otherwise be used for discipline electives. Sabine King from Co-op will present the proposal.


  5. Assessment of 4th-year Theses

    It is generally considered that the extra term for 4th-year Theses has led to too much work on assessing them. Suggestions for reducing the assessment load include:

    • no report in Thesis B, just a demo
    • no presentation in Thesis A
    • no report in Thesis A
    • assessment of presentations/demos done on-the-spot

    The Faculty has set some constraints on Thesis assessment:

    We need a proposal that we can implement for 2020.


  6. New Faculty Courses: DESN2000/3000

    Engineering Design and Professional Practice

    The Faculty has introduced Faculty-wide design courses, somewhat in the vein of ENGG1000. They were originally called ENGG2000 and ENGG3000, but the code was changed to DESN2000/3000. They have pushed these to be core courses in all specialisations. The specific content of the courses is till under development, although the plan is to have generic design content and a discipline-specific project.

    In order to fit the first course (DESN2000) into already-packed program schedules, we were required to replace an existing core course by DESN2000. In CSE's case, the following choices were made:

    • Bioinformatics Eng ... BINF6111 replaced by DESN2000
    • Computer Eng ... COMP2121 replaced by DESN2000
    • Software Eng ... COMP2111 replaced by DESN2000

    None of these choices are ideal, and have resulted in substantial flow-on effects in all programs.


  7. New Faculty Courses: ENGG2600/3600/4600

    Vertically Integrated Projects (part of ChallENG)

    The Faculty has introduced Faculty-wide project courses that allow students to gain credit for participation in large multi-year projects supervised by Schools, e.g. Sunswift. The intention is that students work the full year on the project and receive 6UC at the end of each year of involvement. As students work longer on the project, they assume more managerial roles.

    Does CSE have any large projects that we could use for these courses?


  8. Course Offerings/Quotas/Teaching in 2020

    The near final set of course offerings for 2020 is available at 2020 Course Offerings

    Courses were allocated quotas, in line with 2019 quotas PLUS extra space to allow for the substantial increase in enrolments. Many of the PG courses filled within minutes of enrolment opening last Monday.

    In light of uncertainties on the availability of lecturers (even casuals), some courses were cancelled. This has created some consternation among re-enrolling students.


  9. Concept Mapping of CSE Courses

    There is some concern that certain 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 should take place by December.


  10. Any Other Business