Project of the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology. The Czech Republic

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Project of the Faculty of Information
Technologyat Brno University of Technology.The
Czech Republic
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• Prof. Ing.
• Jan M HONZIK, PhD.
• Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
  Computer Science
• Brno University of Technology
• Czech Republi

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Historical 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.
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Educational 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.
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At 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.
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Bologna 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.
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The 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.
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Accumulation 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.
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Why 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

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• 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

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The 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

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The 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

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• network technologies and Internet
• computer graphics, multimedia, and their
  processing
• computer control of industrial and other
  processes

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The 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

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Curriculum 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

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Strategy 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

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Bachelor of IT
180
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Groups of Elective Subjects IT-B
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Groups of Elective Subjects IT-B
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MSc 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

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MSc in IT - Information systems Orientation
120
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Electives in the Information Systems Orientation
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Common Electives in MSc
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MSc in IT Intelligent Systems Orientation
120
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Elective Subjects in Intelligent Systems
Orientation
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MSc in IT- Computer Systems Orientation
120
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Elective Subjects of Computer Systems and Nets
Orientation
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MSc in IT Computer graphis multimedia
120
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Electived in the Orientation of Computer Graphics
Multimedia
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Ethics 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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The 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?

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Thank 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