Alan Smeaton's Teaching

 

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Last updated: 
28 February, 2007

 In the academic year 2003/4 I introduced and was coordinator for CA107: Topics in Computing, given to first year students, a new module which gathered together interesting topics in the broad area of computing and presented them as a non-core module in the first year syllabus. I was also coordinator for the Practicums for the M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce course for the first 5 years of the course. This 1-year taught Masters course is one I conceived and steered through validation and accreditation with Prof. Brian Leavy of the DCUBS and 6 years and 200+ graduating students later the course still had a strong intake of students.

These other courses I have taught in the recent past at DCU: are 

  • CA414: Multimedia Information Systems: a final year undergraduate course for the B.Sc. in Computer Applications and the B.Sc. in Applied Computational Linguistics, delivered to the full-time and to the part-time classes, which I taught up to 2000/2001.
  • CA521: Multimedia Information Retrieval: A graduate course in Multimedia Systems given to the M.Sc. in Computer Applications.
  • CA557: Information Access: A graduate course in Information Access given to the M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce, Business and Technical Streams in semester II of 2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2002/2003 and to those classes and the M.Sc. in Software Engineering in 2005/6.
  • CA567: GUI Programming and HCI: A graduate course in interfaces which I gave to the M.Sc. in Computer Applications for Education
  • I teach an occasional lecture in the module on Technical Writing, CA465 and CA360, and the PDF of the slides I use are here.
Most of my interaction with students is through supervision of projects - I generally take more than my share of 3rd year and final year undergraduate projects as part of the CDVP's undergraduate research students programme.