Credit points: 12.5 Coordinator Dr L Kitchen.
Prerequisites: 433-202 and (433-201 or Electrical Engineering 431-101)
(From 1995: Prerequisites: Computer Science 433-241,433-242, 433-243 and 433-244)
Contact 26 lectures and approximately 17 hours of practice classes. (Secondsemester)
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject, students should: be familiar with the important characteristics of devices for inputting and displaying images and graphics; understand and be able to use some computational techniques for realistic graphic rendering of 3D scenes, such as perspective, shading and colour, hidden-surface eumination, ray tracing; understand and be able to use 2D and 3D analytic geometry for graphics,' such as scaling, rotation, and perspective projection; havesomeappreciationof the characteristics and limitations of human visual perception, and their impact on the design of effective computer graphics; under- stand and be able to use some of the simpler operations of image processing, and appreciate their usefulness in computer graphics
and image analysis; have hands-on graphics progiumming experi- ence with a modern window environment for display workstations.
Content Graphics hardware, specification of structures, picture generation, raster algorithms, image processing.
Assessment Up to three hours of written examinations at the end of the subjecL Project work, which is expected to take about 36 hours, must be completed satisfactorily to pass the subjecL Weight- ing of assessment components will be made known at the com- mencement of the subjecL
433-398 DIRECTED STUDY 3A Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Dr L Naish.
Condition: Computer Science 433-398 may be taken only with the permission of the Head of the Department of Computer Science.
Contact 26 lectures (First or second semester)
Objecdves: On successful completion of this subject, smdents should have broadened and deepened their knowledge of modern concepts and techniques in computer science.
Content: Directed smdy in Computer Science covering material which is not otherwise available to the studenL The details of the topics covered will depend on the course of directed smdy selected and may involve substantial system development
Assessment: An end-of-semester written examination of up to three hours. Assigned project work must be completed satisfacto- rilyto pass the subject. Weighting of assessmentcomponents will be made known at the start of the subjecL
433-399 DIRECTED STUDY 3B Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Dr L Naish.
Condition: Computer Science433-399 may be taken only with the permission of the Head ofthe Department of Computer Science.
Contact: 26 lecmres. (First or second semester)
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject smdents should have broadened and deepened diei r knowledge of modern concepts and techniques in computer science. The details of the topics covered will depend on the course of directed smdy selected and may involve substantial system development.
Content: Directed smdy in Computer Science covering material which is not otherwise available to the smdent The details of the topics covered will depend on the course of directed smdy selected and may involve substantial system development
Assessment An end-of-semester written examination of up to three hours. Assigned project work must be completed satisfacto- rily to pass the subject Weighting of assessmentcomponents will be made known at the start ofthe subject
433-440 ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECT
Credit Points: 25.0 Coordinator. DrP Dart
Contact No contact hours specified. (Allyear) Prerequisites: 433-340,433-342.
Corequisites: 433-441,433-442
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject smdents should: have gained further experience in team-oriented software engineering; have applied their prior experience of team-oriented software engineering to improving all phases of a software project have planned and managed the software process for a team project be able to manage some of the problems that can arise during execution of the software development process; be able to apply a range of software engineering tools.
Content Smdents will work in teams on a large software project
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Assessment Satisfactory contribution to the group project, in- cluding system and user documentation, progress and final reports, as specified at the start of die subjecL
433-441 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 4A Credit Points: 8.0
Coordinator DrP Dart
Contact 12 lecmres (Firstsemester) Prerequisite: 433-342
Corequisite: 433-442
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject, smdents should: understand the objectives of the specification process; be familiar widi the form, content and users of specification docu- ments; be aware of factors that influence human-computer interac- tion; be familiar with a range of standards, techniques, languages and tools developed to support the specification process; be able to contribute to the production of high quality software requirements specifications.
ContentSpecifiauion: objectives of the specification process;
form, content, and users of specifications documents; notations and tools; standards. End-user considerations: human computer interaction.
Assessment: One two-hour written examination or one three- hour written examination. l*roject work must be completed satis- factorily to pass the subject Weighting of assessment components will be notified at the start of the subject.
433-442 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 4B Credit Points: 8.0
Coordinator: DrP Dart Prerequisites: 433-342,
Contact 12 lecmres (Firstsemester) Corequisite: 433-441
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject, smdents should: understand the factors that affect software reliability; be aware of management techniques that can enhance reliability; be familiar with design techniques that can enhance reliability, includ- ing formal methods; be able to apply further modeLs to measure the reliability of software; be famdiar with the activities that comprise software verification and validation.
Content Reliability: reliability concepts and design techniques, management techniques, reliability modeLs, issues of software security. Validation, verification, testing: formal and informal ap- proaches. Maintenance: design for maintenance, problem-track- ing systems, release control.
Assessment: One two-hour written examination or one three- hour written examination. Project work must be completed satis- factorily to pass the subjecL Weighting of assessment componenLs will be notified al the start of the subjecL
433-443 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 4C Credit Points: 8.0
Coordinator DrP Dart
Contact 12 lecmres (Secondsemester) Prerequisites: 433-441,433-442
Objecdves: On successful completion of this subject, smdents should: understand the issues involv ed in software project manage- ment and the factors dial affect software quality, be familiar with a range of standards, techniques, and tools developed to support software project management and the production of high quafity software; be able to develop software project plans and supporting software quality plans.
Content Project management issues: project planning and sched- uling: mile-stones; project management and team organisation.
Software quality: factors affecting software quality; planning for
quality; software quafity assurance plans. Standards: Australian and international.
Assessment: One two-hour written examination or one three- hour written examination. Project work must be completed satis- factorily to pass the subjecL Weighting of assessment components will be notified at the start of the subjecL
433-463 THESIS Credit Points: 7.0 Coordinator Dr P. Dart
Contact No contact hours specified. (Allyear)
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject, smdents should: have demonstrated skills in the preparation, writing and presentation of a literamre review on a technical topic in software engineering.
Content: Smdents will be required to select a topic from a range offered by the department each year. The thesis is to be based on a Lbrary search and hteramre review and may extend to reporting on associated experimental work. The thesis will be prepared under the supervision of a member of the academic staff of the department with relevant expertise. Smdents with particular interests are encouraged to submit their own thesis topics for consideration.
AssessmentSubmission for examination of a thesis not exceeding 5000 words.
433-464 PROJECT WORK Credit Points: 20.0
Contact: One day per week for 24 weeks. (Allyear)
Corequisite: Enrolment in al least 50% of the standard final year Computer Engineering or Software Engineering course.
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject, smdents should: have acquired practical design and research skills related to professional practice in software engineering or computer engineering; have demonstrated the abihty to work in a small team under broad project guidelines, and to successfully achieve the agreed project goals.
Content 192 hours through Semesters 1 and 2. of work on a project selected from a hst offered by the department each year, will be undertaken under the supervision of a member of the academic staff of the departmentwith relevant expertise. Projects will require activities related to design, implementation and testing of comput- ing systems with associated hteramre reviews. Project management and reporting will comprise a significant part of all projects.
Smdents with specific interests are encouraged to submit their own project proposals for consideration by the department.
Assessment: Submission for examination of project reports not exceeding5000words. Source code which forms part of associated implementation work must also be available for examination.
433-496 DIRECTED STUDY 4A Credit Points: 10.0
Contact 15 lecmres (semester I or 2)
Condition: This subject may only be taken with the permission of the Head of Computer Science.
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject, smdents should have broadened and deepened their knowledge of modern concepts and techniques in computer science.
Content Directed smdy in Computer Science covering material which is not otherwise available to the studenL The details of the topics cov ered will depend on the course of di rected smdy selected and may involve substantial system developmenL
Assessment A written examination at the end ofthe subject not exceeding three hours, and written reports not exceeding 10,000 words. Weighting of assessment components to be advised at the start of the subjecL
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433-497 DIRECTED STUDY 4B Credit Points: 10.0
Contact 15lectures (semesterlor2)
Condition: This subject may only be taken with the permission of the Head of Computer Science.
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject, students should have broadened and deepened their knowledge of modern concepts and techniques in computer science.
Content Directed study in Computer Science covering material which is not otherwise available to tlie student The details of the topics covered will depend on the course of directed study selected and may invobe substantial system development
Assessment A written examination at the end of the subject not exceeding three hours, and written reports not exceeding 10,000 words. Weighting of assessment components to be advised at the start of the subject
433-498 DIRECTED STUDY 4C Credit Point 10.0
Contact 15 lectures (semester lor2)
Condition:This subject may only be taken with the permission of the Head of Computer Science.
Objectives: On successful completion of this subject, smdents should have broadened and deepened their knowledge of modern concepts and techniques in computer science
Content: Directed smdy in Computer Science covering material which is not otherwise available to the smdent The details of the topics covered will depend on die course of directed smdy selected and may invobe substantial svstem development
Assessment A written examination at the end of the subject not exceeding three hours, and written reports not exceeding 10,000 words. Weighting of assessment components to be advised at the start of the subject
619-005 PROBABILITY AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Credit Points: 6.0
Coordinator To be advised.
Prerequisite: 619-006 or equivalent
Contact: 20 lecmres and 19 mtorials (First semester).
Objectives: To introduce smdents to multivariate distributions and simple stochastic processes and thence basic time series analysis using both time domain and spectral methods. This is intended as an introduction to the smdy of stochastic processes required by Electrical Engineers in the study of communications and control systems.
Smdents completing this course should comprehend
• the relationship between covariances (or correlations) and the strucmre of multivariate (particularly bivariate) normal distributions;
• the namre and use of stochastic transition matrices;
• the basic principles of Time Series Analysis;
• the relationship behveen the time and frequency domain analysis of Time Series data.
Content Multivariate distributions with particular reference to bivariate systems and joint densities. The Multivariate and Bivariate Normal distributions. The meaning and testing of covariances and correlation coefficients. The means, variances and covariances of weighted sums of correlated random variables. Weak Law of large numbers. The Central limit theorem and something of its rationale.
The simpler Stochastic Processes and Markov Chains. Concepts of stationarity non-stationarity as applied to these. Basic discrete time series concepts and tools. Autocovariances, auto-correlatiori coef- ficients and both time domain and power spectral representations of T.S.: Wiener-Khmcliine Theorerh : Power Spectra. Impulse
response functions (transforms) and the convolution of these to obtain network transfer functions. A basic underetanding of both transfer function analysis and spectral analysis of some of the simpler linear networks.
Assessment Assignments (up to a maximum of 50 pages) (20%), Examination (3hours-80%).
619-006 STATISTICS FOR ELECTRIC ENGINEERS Credit Points: 4.0
Coordinator: To be advised.
Contact: 13 lecmres and 13 mtorials (Secondsemester).
Objectives: The course is designed to introduce electrical engi- neering smdents to some basic statistical methods and data analysis techniques, and show them some of the engineering contexts in winch Statistical considerations and tools are useful. Smdents completing this course should comprehend
• the concepts of statistical estimation and hypothesis testing and the relation behveen confidence regions and hypothesis tests;
By the end of this course the smdent should have developed the skills needed to:
• estimate statistical quantities;
• contruct confidence intervals for these;
• carry out the common parametric hypothesis tests.
Through this course the smdents shoidd come to appreciate how statistical meihods are used both generally and in response to engineering needs.
Content: Simple and conditional probabilities up to Bayes' Theorem;Random variables (discrete); Common counting distri- butions - Bernoulli, geometric, hypergeometric and Poisson; Ran- dom variables (continuous); Cumulative distributions; Probability densities; Some common continuous distributions; Statistical error: Population and sample. Statistical Estimation: Minimum variance and imbixssedness of estimators. Methods of Moments and Maximum Likelihood. Some aspects of statistical data process- ing. Confidence intervals. Meaning and construction of these.
Hypothesis testing principles and methods. Applications of confi- dence interval and hypothesis testing ideas to the Binomial, Poisson and Nonnal data distributions and the usage of the Normal, Chi- square, Smdent - T and Snedecore - F distributions in the above contexts.
Assessment: Assignments (up to a maximum of 50 pages) (20%), Examination (2 hours-80%)
640-026 PHYSICS 2 (ENGINEERING COURSE) Credit points: Electrical Engineering 11.0
Contact: 39 lecmres; 20 1-hourmtorials. QUI year).
Objectives: By the completion of the first semester part of the course, the smdent should comprehend the basis for the modem undersianding of light and its properties, with particular emphasis beingplacedon thenatureand validityofthe ray approximation and use of wave optics; the smdent should also comprehend how optical theory is used in the development of modem optical instrumenta- tion and be able to apply it to understanding and developing new optical techniques. By the completion of the second semester, the smdent should understand the basic principles of the quantum theory of atoms, molecules and solids and be able to apply these principles to a wide range of materials which are of key importance in modem electronics.
Content Optics: Wave Optics: diffraction, interference. Fourier Optics: spatial & temporal coherence, laser light, holography.
Quantum Pfj)>sics: Theory of thermal radiation. Photons, rjiffrac- tion of X-rays, electrons and neutrons and its relation to the crystalline stnicture of matter. Quanmm mechanical basis of the' stnicture of matter. The Schroedinger equation and its solution in
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simple cases of importance to atomic, molecular and solid-state systems. Implications regarding spectra and their applications.
Physics of Materials: Electrical and thermal conductivity of metals and alloys - classical and modem theory. Quantum mechanical theory of metals. Electron emissions processes and their applica- tions. Contact potential. Quantum mechanical theory of insulators.
Optical and electrical properties; photo-conductivity. Lumines- cence. Quantum mechanical theory of semiconductors. Applica- tions to electronic devices.
Assessment: One 1.5 hour examination at the end of Semester 1 on the work covered in that semester, and one 3-hour examination at the end of semester 2 on the work covered in that Semester. The first examination counts for 1 /3 and the second examination for 2/
3 of the final mark.
640-222/242 OPTICS AND RELATIVITY See Science.
640-223/243 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
See Science.
640-226/246 THERMAL PHYSICS See Science.
640-228/248 STRUCTURE OF MATTER See Science.