The University of New South Wales

Notice of Meeting



A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee (CSE Education Committee 21/03)
will be held at 09:30am on Friday, 04 June 2021, via Zoom.

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

John Shepherd
Committee Chair

Agenda


  1. Apologies and Welcome


  2. Minutes of Previous Meeting *

    CSE Teaching Committee 21/2 (12 March 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:

    • undergraduate Certificate in Computer Science
    • Western Sydney University 2+2 program
    • NS Global Diploma as 1+3 for Comp Eng
    • 2-year MComm/MIT
    • course reviews should happen more frequently
    • UNSW wants return to f2f teaching for 21T3
    • AGSE: continuing professional development
    • ACOA: UNSW-wide course outline tool
    • Inspera: UNSW-wide online assessment tool
    • Peer observation of teaching and CDI
    • EFFECT: education focussed career support - project funding

  4. Accreditation

    CSE has completed the documentation for Engineers Australia accreditation of undergraduate engineering degrees. This included a School Report, Course Outlines, examples of assessment, and curriculum mapping. Engineers Australia visit July 26-28, meeting academic staff and students.

    Also, ACS accreditation of all degrees (BE(Hons) plus Comp Sci and MIT). Requires a new set of documentation and new curriculum mapping. This will require more assistance from academic staff.


  5. Revising Software Engineering

    Fethi and Carroll have been working to revamp the Software Engineering degree beyond the core.

    Carroll will present a proposal to re-organise the second year of the software engineering program.

    Fethi plans to conduct a review of the whole Software Engineering degree in the second half of the year.

    Proposal: SENG year 2 revision


  6. New Course: COMP6772

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

    Proposal: COMP6772 Advanced C++ Software Engineering


  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.


  8. Assessment Practices in CSE

    We received several major complaints from students this term

    • final exam too much work for 2-hours
    • no information given about final exam format
    • no sample exam given (similar to above point)
    • assignment/project marks not available before exam

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


  9. Any Other Business