Title: Project of the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology. The Czech Republic
1Project of the Faculty of Information
Technologyat Brno University of Technology.The
Czech Republic
2- Prof. Ing.
- Jan M HONZIK, PhD.
- Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science - Brno University of Technology
- Czech Republi
3Historical background of the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science -
FEECS
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering was founded
in the late fifties. The first attempt at
establishing a new faculty focused on informatics
(in 1993) lead to the first transformation of the
existing faculty into the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. The explosive
development in information and communication
technologies has brought on better conditions for
establishing a completely new faculty.
4Educational tradition
Professionally oriented secondary schools
educated about the half of post-primary
population in the second half of the previous
century. School-leavers became production
work-masters, foremen and middle-level managers
in production plants and factories. Less than 50
of graduates continued their studies at
universities as the second most important input
stream besides those coming from general
secondary schools of the "gymnasium" type. The
balanced mixture of these two streams was well
prepared for the traditional full university five
year study program, corresponded to MSc degree.
While school-leavers from professional secondary
schools were well prepared from practical skills
in laboratories, the gymnasium leavers have good
competency in theories (physics, mathematics) and
in languages.
5At the average, the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (FEECS) accepted
annually about 500 to 700 students from about
1500 applicants to the first year of the study
program, the total amount of students varied from
2200 to 2700 students in master study program
(about 200 in doctoral students) and 350 to 500
graduates with MSc degree in one academic year.
The Faculty has about 250 of teaching staff and
about 250 other administrative and technical
support staff. Faculty has several dozens of
thousands of its graduates for the time of its
existence. You may find them at the scientific
and managerial positions through the whole world.
6Bologna declaration in Czech Universities
Bologna declaration brought a new view of the
tertiary education. The three-level system
Bachelor, Master and Doctor studies is
anchored in the new university law. Industrial
environment demands the education of new types of
professionals with broader competencies, with
language skills, managerial and presentational
abilities.
7The crucial question whether the bachelor level
is vocationally oriented or oriented as a
prerequisite to the master degree is still
relevant. A compromise is the most frequent
solution. The extent of the compromise might be
expressed as the percentage of theoretical
subjects in the bachelors curriculum. All
technical universities have adopted ECTS credit
system and they use it both for accumulation and
transfer of credits. With sixty credits as the
nominal annual amount the bachelor degree takes
the 180 credits/three years, additional 120
credits are necessary for masters degree.
Doctoral degree is not based on credits yet.
8Accumulation of credits means that the curriculum
is formed by the subjects/courses the credits of
which should be summed to get the prescript
total. The curriculum is flexible in the
structure. Student is allowed to create his own
customised curriculum which should meet the
prescript structure of prerequisites and major
obligatory subjects but which varies in
sufficiently large area of elective subjects.
9Why the new faculty?The mission of the expected
new Faculty of InformationTechnology (FIT) is
expressed by the following items
- research, scientific and educational independence
of the IT - economic and financial independence of IT study
program and its branches - feasibility in a reasonable period of time
10- willingness of rather overloaded key persons,
frustrated by the late experience of never-ending
discussions on every change in the system with
the partners from the electrical engineering side - harmony with the current legislation
- clear signal for professional and other public
inside and outside the university expressing the
will to promote studies of IT at the university
and ensure and satisfy the lasting interest of
gifted students
11The new faculty
- FIT will be founded on the base of one department
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
(DCSE) - The old Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (FEECS) will be transformed to
the Faculty of Electrical and Communication
Technology (FECT) - The tight co-operation between faculty is expected
12The new faculty is expected to cover
professionally
- software engineering and especially
- information systems and databases
- modeling and simulation
- hardware engineering and especially
- integrated communication and mobile networks
- embedded and microprocessor systems
13- network technologies and Internet
- computer graphics, multimedia, and their
processing - computer control of industrial and other
processes
14The Initial Features of FIT
- 30 persons of the teaching staff (five full
rofessors) - Dean four Vice-Deans
- Three departments
- One IT Bachelor Study Programme with one
Specialisation - One MSc Study Programme with the four Specialised
Branches - One PhD Study programme with one Specialisation
- 700 non doctoral students (maximal capacity about
1500 in the future) - Common fundamentals and some specialised courses
delivered by the FECT
15Curriculum of Bachelor of IT
- Information technologies
- Three years
- Monothematic (no branches and orientations)
- Full-time and combined (partly part-time)
- Delivered in Czech and English language
16Strategy of the Bc Curriculum
- 180 credits
- 25 credits of electives
- Possibility to create students own minor by
election of the packet of subjects - Languages
- Teaching
- Communication
- Biomedical Engineering
- Control Engineering
- Power Engineering
17Bachelor of IT
180
18Groups of Elective Subjects IT-B
19Groups of Elective Subjects IT-B
20MSc Curriculum
- Information technologies
- Two Years
- Four Orientations/Branches
- Information systems
- Intelligent systems
- Computing systems and nets
- Computer Graphics and Multimedia
- Full-time and/or Part-time
- Delivered in Czech and English Languages
21MSc in IT - Information systems Orientation
120
22Electives in the Information Systems Orientation
23Common Electives in MSc
24MSc in IT Intelligent Systems Orientation
120
25Elective Subjects in Intelligent Systems
Orientation
26MSc in IT- Computer Systems Orientation
120
27Elective Subjects of Computer Systems and Nets
Orientation
28MSc in IT Computer graphis multimedia
120
29Electived in the Orientation of Computer Graphics
Multimedia
30Ethics in the curriculum
- Public Software engineers shall act
consistently with the public interest. - Client and employer Software engineers shall
act in the manner that is the best interest of
their client and employer consistent with the
public interest. - Product - Software engineers shall ensure that
their products and related modifications meet the
highest professional standards possible.
31- Judgement Software engineers shall maintain
integrity and independence in their professional
judgement. - Management Software engineering managers and
leaders shall subscribe to and promote an ethical
approach to the management of software
development maintenance. - Profession Software engineers shall advance the
integrity and reputation of the profession
consistent with the public interest.
32- Colleagues Software engineers shall be fair to
and supportive of their colleagues. - Self Software engineers shall participate in
lifelong learning regarding the practice of their
profession and shall promote an ethical approach
to the practice of the profession.
33The Gender Problem
- Less the 2 of female students at all faculties
of electrical engineering in the Czech Republic - Similar situation in IT
- No real idea why
- Necessity to study an solve the problem
- Positive discrimination and special support?
34Thank you for your attention
- Prof. Ing. Jan M Honzik, CSc.
- Dean of the FEECS BUT Brno Czech Reoublic
- honzik_at_dean.fee.vutbr.cz
- www.fee.vutbr.cz