The University of New South Wales

Notice of Meeting



A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee (CSE Education Committee 21/11/12)
will be held at 10:30am on Friday, 12 November 2021, via Zoom.

Enquiries concerning this agenda should be directed to Andrew Taylor, andrewt@cse.unsw.edu.au.

Andrew Taylor
Committee Chair

Agenda


  1. Apologies and Welcome


  2. Reports from Bodies outside CSE

    Reports on any interesting/relevant developments that have occurred in committees, work-groups, etc. at UNSW.


  3. Accreditation

    ACS Accreditation visit has been and gone. Our degrees are provisionally accredited, subject to us addressing some "issues". The current full accreditation remains in force until March 31 2022, by which time need to have addressed or have plans to address these issues.

    One new requirement is that we are required to expose students to issues of data/computer security. Adding a new core course to each degree looks problematic. Is security already being discussed in some courses? Do we need to "sprinkle" security issues through the degree?


  4. New Programs

    The AI Group, led by Claude Sammut, has been discussing development of a new AI degree. After consideration of AI programs worldwide, the consensus is that a new Advanced Science degree (with an embedded thesis, like the Engineering degrees) would be the most appropriate platform. Should we have a new 4-year BAdvSci(Computing?) degree with majors in AI and CS?

    Supporting Information

    Are there other upcoming areas of computing that could justify a new degree? Or at least a new major stream in the CS degree? Should some of the current CS majors be retired?

    We have a useful offer from the faculty to conduct market research on any areas we might consider offering a new program.


  5. Program Reviews

    One commendation from the ACS Accreditation Panel was for Software Engineering program review. Fethi Rabhi will summarise the outcomes of the SE review. Before the next Accreditation, it would be useful if all degrees were reviewed like this.


  6. Teaching Allocations 2022

    Staff movement and availability has left gaps in the 2022 teaching allocation. We will check if the workload formula allows any continuing staff to teach additional courses but we expect to be using a substantial number of casual lecturers in 202. This should reduce in 2023 with new continuing staff joining us.


  7. Any Other Business