Industrial Steering Group 28/08/08
Industrial Steering Group Meeting
Industrial Steering Group 28/08/08
Agenda
10.00 Welcome and coffee
10.15 Introduction & Overview of Teaching & Research – Andrew Ireland
10.30 MEng Industrial Placement Scheme – Phil Trinder
10.45 A Snap Shot of New Teaching and Outreach Projects – Judy Robertson
11.05 Development & Alumni – Liz Dean
11.15 Plenary Discussions
12.00 Poster Session (EMB 2.44)
12.45 Lunch (EMB 1.01)
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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
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Postgraduate Programme Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics Creative Software Systems Distributed & Multimedia Information Systems Intelligent Systems Intelligent Web Technology Mobile & Handheld Applications Software Engineering Computer Systems Management Information Technology
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Research Groups Biomedical Informatics Systems Engineering Database, Information & KBS Dependable Systems Group (DSG) Intelligent Systems ULTRA Vision, Interactive Systems & Graphical
Environments (VIS&GE)
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Interaction with Industry Small scale student projects, e.g. Access
application for Edinburgh Competition festival Association
Spinouts, e.g. Totallytextures Ltd: capturing, managing, and visualising surface textures
Applied Research, e.g. Praxis High Integrity Systems Ltd, QinetiQ
Guest lectures MEng Industrial Placement Scheme
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Prizes, Scholarships & Labs
Abelon - Best Poster Prize for Most Innovative Project Real Time Engineering - Best MEng Project Graham Technology - Best Student Prize Systems Consultants Prize – Best Student Final Year CS Cooper-Walker Engineering Prize – Outstanding Project Work CS Don Godfrey Prize – Best Student Final Year IS 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)
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If you are interested in providing a mutually beneficial placement, or require further information, please contact: Dr Phil Trinder (0131 451 3435, [email protected], www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~trinder/)
Industrial Placements Needed!MEng in Software Engineering
The Placements: Challenging Software Engineering or ICT-related Work. Full-time and Paid (12-20 weeks from Mid May to Late October
2008). Opportunities to Dovetail with Final Year Dissertation Project. Lightweight University Assessment & Flexible Arrangements.
The Students: An elite international group of our very best software engineers. Previously interviewed and vetted by a panel of industrialists. Already completed an industrially applied group project. Completing the 4th year of a 5 year MEng degree in Summer `08.
“Our MEng placement students were so good we snapped them up when they graduated; and then went back for more!” – Tom Johnston, Programme Manager.
“Heriot-Watt provided us with access to high quality MEng students and we have been really pleased with the outcome and value for money provided …. It is definitely a resource we will use again” – Sue Balatoni, Helixion Ltd.
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A snapshot of new projects in Computer Science
Teaching
Recruitment
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Teaching Innovation Our graduates need to be: problem solvers, team workers,
innovative, creative, self critical, professional, agile and motivated
To match our new degree courses, we’re innovating in our teaching
We’re moving away towards more interactive classes and are experimenting with new teaching technology
We’re also redesigning some of our classrooms to match We want learning spaces where students feel comfortable,
inspired, interested, playful, adventurous, studious…
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Windows onto Learning We want to celebrate and showcase learning by creating
“windows” round the department: Screen savers TVs in student and staff common rooms Mobiles
Windows show constantly changing snapshots of what students are working on
Students will be involved in writing software to drive the displays, and looking after content
These ideas need some investment – but also new ways of thinking about learning
http://judyrobertson.typepad.com/judy_robertson/technology_in_teaching/index.html
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Schools outreach Universities worldwide are finding it hard to recruit
people to computing degrees Demographic trends are against us There is still a perception that “there are no jobs in
computing” Programming is squeezed out of Higher computing
The number of computing graduates has dropped by a third in the last four years, while demand for computing graduates has doubled (source: Computing Scotland).
So we’re doing a lot more schools outreach to get kids interested in computing
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IT4U 2008: runaway success
Organised by Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh and Napier
250 3rd year secondary school pupils attended
Theme of “Computing Careers”
Support from local and global computing companies
This year Heriot-Watt are hosting it!
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Plenary Discussion What kind of interaction model fits with your organization? What are the drivers associated with such interaction for your
organization? What are the hurdles, i.e. time, funding etc? How can we better facilitate student recruitment? Does the MEng Placement scheme appeal to you? Do you see gaps in your R&D which HW might be able to
help with? Would you like to share your expertise via a guest lecture, or
via some other forum?