Industrial Steering Group 25/8/2011 Industrial Steering Group Meeting: Undergraduate Programme Andrew Ireland Brian Palmer Director of UG Programme Director of BSc IS

Industrial Steering Group 25/8/2011 Undergraduate Programme  BSc Computer Science  broad foundation, with strong emphasis on theory and practice  BSc Information Systems  unique blend of computer science, management and socio-technical systems  MEng Software Engineering  advanced software engineer, with additional management skills

Industrial Steering Group 25/8/2011 Common Threads  First Year  Software Development, Interactive Systems, Praxis, Computer Systems, Web Design & Databases  Second Year  Interaction Design, Software Design, Internet & Communications, Database Management Systems  Third Year  Group Project & Professional Development  Fourth Year  Dissertation  Options, e.g. 3D Modelling & Animation, Advanced Interaction Design, Rigorous Methods for Software Engineering,...

Industrial Steering Group 25/8/2011 Information Systems  First Year  Management & Enterprise + Elective  Second Year  Management, Marketing, Operations Management, Creative Design Project  Third Year  Organisational Behaviour, Knowledge Management, Critical & Computational Thinking, Socio-technical & Soft Systems, Human Resource Management, International Strategic Management

Industrial Steering Group 25/8/2011 Computer Science  First Year (2011/2012)  Software Development 1, 2 & 3, Logic and Proof  Second Year (2012/2013)  Data Structures & Algorithms, Programming Languages, Discrete Maths, Formal Specification  Third Year (2013/2014)  Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Operating Systems & Concurrency, Foundations of Computing, Language Processors

Industrial Steering Group 25/8/2011 Software Engineering  First to Third Years  Same as CS  Fourth Year  New Product & Process Development + options  Fifth Year  Industrial Placement (3 to 6 months)  Design & Code Group Project  Software Engineering Master Class

Industrial Steering Group 25/8/2011 Interaction with Industry  Current industrial collaborators include:  SciSys, Ikea communications, Graham and Brown Ltd, Natasha Marshall Designs, Grantwestfield, BAE Systems, Praxis High Integrity Systems Ltd, Motorola, EcoLogic, Maplesoft, Mupad, C2 Software, 4sight Financial Software, Agilent Technologies UK Ltd, Chevron, Automation Consultants, Scott Logic, SeeByte Ltd, Wolfson Microelectronics plc, Epistemy, AbsInt, Selex, Waterfall Solutions, SAP, Ontotext, Space Application Services  Guest lectures  MEng Industrial Placement Scheme

Industrial Steering Group 25/8/2011 Prizes, Scholarships & Labs  Abelon - Best Poster Prize for Most Innovative Project  Systems Consultants Prize – Best Student Final Year CS  Cooper-Walker Engineering Prize – Outstanding Project Work CS  BCS Prize – Best Student Final Year MEng  ICL Prize – Best Student First Year CS  Atos Origin Prize – Third Year Group Project CS & IS  Scott Logic Prize – Top Five Students Third Year CS  MEng Software Engineering Undergraduate Leadership Scholarship  Agilent Computing Lab (EMB 2.50)

Industrial Steering Group 25/8/2011 And finally …  Questions, observations?  Next up – Graduate skills wish list …