The University of New South Wales

Notice of Meeting

A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee (CSE Education Committee 21/02)
will be held at 10:00am on Friday, 12 March 2021, via Zoom.

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

John Shepherd
Committee Chair

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Agenda

1. Apologies and Welcome




2. Minutes of Previous Meeting *

   CSE Teaching Committee 21/1 (5 February 2021)




3. Reports from Bodies outside CSE

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




4. DESN2000, DESN3000

   The Design courses seem to have veered away from full-on "design". While they still have design elements, DESN3000 seems to be evolving towards issues such as ethics. DESN2000 seems to come a little early in the degree for all of the technical background that might be useful for project work to have been covered.

   Bruno, Wayne and Hui might be able to shed more light on the development of the DESN courses and their potential impact on other courses in our programs.




5. COMP4920

   Since CS and SENG students seem to have a good dose of project management in various courses (COMP3900 for CS, and the workshops for SENG). If the other programs also cover project management, the need for a PM component in COMP4920/SENG4920 seems unnecessary. If ethics are covered in DESN3000, do we even need COMP4920?

   Wayne and Bruno to discuss.




6. Reviving COMP2121?

   The project work for Computer Engineering students in DESN2000 requires students to have significant background in embedded systems. Without COMP2121, a large part of the Comp Eng stream is DESN2000 is spent providing this background, rather than working on the project.

   This problem could be resolved if COMP2121 were to return to the Comp Eng program. Given the current structure of the COMPBH stream, this does not seem possible (i.e. no room). Should the structure of COMPBH be reviewed with the aim of fitting both DESN2000 and COMP2121?

   Hui and Oliver to discuss.




7. New Course: COMP9xxx Complex Networks and Applications

   JiaoJiao is proposing a new advanced course on graph-type networks. Course Proposal




8. FYI: Curriculum Mapping for Accreditation

   Accreditation requires the school to map the Learning Outcomes for each course to the Engineers Australia competencies. This would require significant work by itself, since we are required to do this mapping in ECLIPS.

   The problem is compounded by the fact that Learning Outcomes and Assessments in Course Outlines often don't quite match what is recorded in the "official" course record in ECLIPS.

   So, almost all our ECLIPS course records need to be revised to make them consistent with what is in the Course Outline, and then they all need to be mapped to the Eng Aust competencies.

   Each convenor of a course that is core in any of our Engineering programs will need to do this, after some training in using ECLIPS.




9. Any Other Business