1. Undergraduate Computing education in China XU, Yang Feb-12-2016

2. Content  about SCUT  about SEE  undergraduate program  Teaching @ learning

3. About SCUT  South China University of Technology  Affiliated to Chinese Ministry of Education.  Situating in Guangzhou, South China  First established in 1952  Its history can traces back to the earlier 20th century

4. About SCUT  27schools,2 campuses  multi-disciplinary  Science, Engineering, Management, Economics, Law, Medical and Social science, Arts, and so on

5. About SCUT North Campus

6. About SCUT South Campus

7. About SSE  School of Software Engineering  Founded in November 2001  Only one major: software engineering  about 1200 undergraduate students,200 full-time master students,15 doctoral students and 200 part-time master students  50 facuties

8. Undergraduate Programs  Aim at training the students with the ability of developing software systems, cooperating with different various people and being more innovative.  Bachelor of Engineering  178 credits required  After graduation  students can enter the technical job market or to continue studies at the graduate level.  Typical Career Destinations  Internet Companies(Alibaba,Tencent,NetEase,Baidu,…)  Financial(ICBC, HSBC,…)  communication companies(HUAWEI,ZTE,China Mobile,…)  Game companies  …

9. Undergraduate Programs

10. Teaching&learning  situation:  1:90 -- teacher vs. students  too many students for teaching  too few learning resources per student for learning  Classrooms are shared among all colleges.  Challenge:  less time on deep discussion in classes  more workloads for teachers(checking homeworks, guiding experiments and projects ), less time for one on one interaction.

11. Teaching  One course is arranged into two sections: theoretical section in classes and experimental sections in lab.  Students need to complete one project in every core course. Usually every 4 Students form a group.  One or two assistants will be recruited from graduate students.  Students are also encouraged to extra-curricular software project.

12. outreach  colloquiums  technology clubs  SCF (annual Software Culture Festival)  Student Research Program  100-steps Innovative Program  Contests  grade Competition, creative software design competition, match series in SCF  State/national software contests  Contests sponsored by enterprises, such as Microsoft, IBM, Sumsung, China Mobile, etc.  ACM-ICPC, MCM/ICM

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