Orientation Day information for Engineering and Information Science students at the University of Wollongong, South Western Sydney Campus

1. WELCOME
Orientation Day @ Liverpool
Autumn 2018
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES

2. GETTING STARTED
FOR NEW STUDENTS
Who you need to know1
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3
Where to go for advice
What happens next

3. STRUCTURE OF UOW
VICE CHANCELLOR
Professor Paul Wellings

4. Faculty of Engineering & Information Sciences
6 SYNERGISTIC SCHOOLS
• School of Computing and IT
• School of Electrical, Computer and
Telecommunications Engineering
• School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics
• School of Civil, Mining and Environmental
Engineering
• School of Physics
• School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic
and Biomedical Engineering
Electrical
Computer
Telecommunications
Civil
Mining
Environmental
Engineering &
Information Sciences
Computing & IT
Materials
Mechanical
Mechatronic
Biomedical
Mathematics
Statistics
Physics
TOP 1 %
Research quality

5. EXECUTIVEDEAN
Professor Valerie Linton

6. ASSOCIATE DEAN
EDUCATION
Associate Professor
Rodney Vickers

7. Heads of School
Computer & Information Technology
Professor Willy Susilo

8. Sub Deans (Head of Students)
Dr Luke McAven
Undergraduate Degrees excluding
Engineering

9. Student Academic Advisors
Each program/major/disciplines/degree has a
discipline advisor or course coordinator who can help
you with your choice of subjects each year.

10. For all appointments, book through online web platform CareerHub:
http://careerhub.uow.edu.au/
Faculty Careers Consultant (FCCs):
Other Support
NICOLE SMITH
nicoles@uow.edu.au
8536 2004
Room: 128

11. Student Support Advisors (SSA):
Tina Edney
tedney@uow.edu.au
02 8763-6000
Rm: 127 | Monday to Thursday
Information about UOW’s various academic and non-academic supports and services.
• Information about procedures and policies that exist at UOW.
• Referring you to welfare support services or counselling services provided at the university or in the local
community.
• Help international students with issues such as: visas, accommodation, loneliness, study, fees, immigration,
culture shock and adjusting to life in a new country , improving your English language skills.
Advice about who is the best person in your faculty or in the university to help with your problem.
• Assisting you to have your disability, illness or injury to be taken into account whilst you are studying.
• Providing information about where to get academic help for your studies.
• What to do in different circumstances, we can point you in the right direction.
The Disability Liaison Officer (DLO) can provide advice on how particular disabilities affect university study and
information on resources available at the University for assisting students with disability. Students commencing
courses are advised to contact the Disability Liaison Officer prior to the beginning of their first session of study.

12. Student Hub
How To Contact US
sws-enquiries@uow.edu.au
02 8763 6000
Where to find US
Student Hub is located at the front
desk, ground floor reception.
We are open 8.30am to 5.30pm
during session.

13. If there are circumstances beyond your control
that are affecting your academic study, you can
apply for Academic Consideration via SOLS
Speak to your Course Coordinator, Discipline
Advisor, SSA or International Coordinator for
assistance
Having problems?

14. But if you fail in a subject it won’t be removed
from your record even if you eventually pass the
subject.
We want all students to be
successful

15. The UOW Library has partnered with the Liverpool City Library to provide all of
your Library needs. Open 9.30am to 8pm Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm
Saturday, and 12pm – 4pm Sunday.

18. Keep up to date with EIS
We are on Facebook
Log on and go to our page:
UOW Engineering &
Information Sciences

19. Log on and go to:
eis.uow.edu.au/o-day
Missed any Information?

20. What’s next?
1. Associate Professor George Zhou will talk to you
about your degrees
2. O Festival on Roof & Market Stalls

21. Degree
information
Associate Professor George Zhou
School of Computing and Information Technology

22. The Bachelor of Computer Science (BCompSc) focuses on the development of high-level
programming skills that can be applied across a wide range of applications, including analysis
of stock market trends, games design, neural network design, automatic teller machines and
patient monitoring in hospitals. The core subjects teach you to understand the structure of
data and the role it plays in delivering solutions to complex problems.
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The Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) has a common core structure that offers
graduates key skills required for any IT professional such as: organisational areas in IT;
database management; programming; information systems analysis and design;
communications and networks; security; eBusiness; project management; web-based
technology; and professional practice in IT.
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Bachelor of Business Information Systems (BBIS): Business Information analysts are
involved in the analysis, design, implementation, maintenance and enhancement of computer
based information systems critical to the successful operation of modern organisations. They
require a sound understanding of the business requirements for the systems they design and
must deal with users at all levels within an organisation.
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The degrees …

23. A common core:
• Everyone shares some common language and should have a broad base of
skills.
• All courses develop skills in analysing scenarios and building solutions.
• It’s fairly easy to transfer between degrees, although it becomes more costly
in time the further you are through.
BIT and BBIS emphasise interaction with clients, and with organisational
structures within businesses.
BBIS contains Business electives to provide an understanding of the role
information systems play within different business activities.
BCompSc tends to work with more fundamental components, and usually
includes more coding than the other degrees.
What does that mean?

24. Sessions:
• Autumn February – June
• Spring July – November
Degree or Course:
• This is what you are studying overall… e.g. Bachelor of
Computer Science.
Subjects:
• Each session you take some independently assumed modules,
referred to as subjects.
• A typical full-time load is 4 subjects.
Some terminology

25. Subject codes e.g. CSIT111, MATH221:
• The letters indicate the discipline.
• The first digit indicates the subject level.
Credit points (cp):
• The value or volume of a subject.
• Most subjects are 6cp.
• 1cp  Roughly 2 hours of work per week.
Subject types:
• Core: A subject you have to pass for your degree.
• Elective: A subject that gives you points towards your degree,
but is mostly unrestricted.

26. Credit for Prior Learning/Advanced Standing/Credit exemptions:
• If you have studied at a tertiary institute previously you can apply for
credit for prior learning.
• If your previous study matches against core subjects you can get
specified credit and not need to take those core subjects.
• If your previous study matches against identified UOW elective
subjects you can get specified credit and reduce the number of electives
you need.
• If your previous study don’t match against identified UOW elective
subjects you can get unspecified credit and reduce the numbers of
electives you need.
• If you have previous tertiary academic study and haven’t applied for
credit, talk to one of your APDs.

27. Grade Name Mark range Notes
HD High Distinction 85-100
D Distinction 75-84
C Credit 65-74
P Pass 50-64
PS Pass supplementary 50 (sort of)
TF Technical Fail Failing a requirement.
F Fail 0-49
WH Withheld Pending miscellaneous.
WD Withheld Deferred Exam Later exam due to medical
or similar.
WS Withheld Supplementary
Assessment
Borderline fail 
supplementary.

28. Degree Structures
Year One:
7 common core subjects.
1 elective  BBIS: MGNT110.
48
credit
points
Year Three:
1 common core coursework subject.
1 final year common core project subject (12cp).
6 electives. BBIS: 5 electives + 1 Business elective
48
credit
points
Year Two:
2 common core subjects.
BCompSc: 4 core + 2 electives.
BIT: 4 core + 2 electives.
BBIS: 3 core + 3 Business electives
48
credit
points

29. CSIT111: Programming Fundamentals

30. How do I learn to solve problems?
• Do CSIT113 (hopefully this will help)
• Practice
• Practice some more
• Practicing will enable you to:
• Identify similarities between problems
• Master techniques and variations of them
• Gain confidence in your ability to solve problems
• It is less likely you will be put off by something that looks
tricky!
CSIT113: Problem Solving

31. CSIT114: System Analysis
This subject provides an introduction to different techniques and technologies for
understanding and specifying what a computer based information system should
accomplish.
It examines the complementary roles of systems analysts, clients and users in a
system development life cycle.
Students will learn different fact-finding techniques to elicit system requirements
and how to develop business models, data and process models, and object models
representing a system.
Students will also make use of a Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE)
tool to build those models that capture the specifications of a system.

32. CSIT115: Data Management and Security
The goal of the subject is to learn the fundamental concepts in data
management including conceptual modelling, the relational data
model, processing of relational data with Structured Query
Language (SQL), enforcing the concepts of data confidentiality,
integrity, and availability of data management systems.

33. And then …
In Spring you will most likely take 3 core subjects and 1
elective:
• CSIT121: Object Oriented Design and Programming.
• CSIT127: Networks and Communications.
• CSIT128: Introduction to Web Technology.
For BBIS the elective should be
• MGNT110: Introduction to Management
Everybody else has more flexibility, but it’s probably a good
idea to check if the subject you are planning to take is suitable.
There will be 200-level subjects available.

34. 2018 …
This is the second year at Liverpool.
EIS will run the core 100-level subjects again, and will run the core 200-level
subjects, and a few other subjects.
• CSIT214: IT Project Management. Autumn
• CSIT226: Human Computer Interaction. Spring
• CSCI203: Algorithms and Data Structures. Spring
• CSCI235: Database Systems. Spring
• CSCI251: Advanced Programming. Autumn
• MATH221: Mathematics for Computing. Autumn
• ISIT204: eBusiness. Spring
• ISIT219: Knowledge and Information Engineering. Autumn
• ISIT224: Management Information Systems. Spring
• MATH223: Mathematics for Information Technology Autumn
• CSIT110: Fundamental Programming with Python. Autumn
• CSIT212: Introduction to Computer Systems. Spring
• ISIT207: Frontend Web Programming. Spring
• CSCI262: System Security. Spring Possibly

35. 2019 …
SCIT will run probably run pretty the same 100-level and 200-level subjects at
the same times.
• CSIT314: Software Development Methodologies. Autumn
• CSIT321: Project. Annual, Spring/Autumn
• Various 300-level subjects.
• SCIT will likely look at offering some other subjects depending on the interests
of students, and the resources available.

36. Thank you.
Any questions?