Educational goal of Computer Science and Technology

As the first major in department of Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Technology of SMU began to enroll undergraduate students  in 1979. The major has been integrating the education with the feature of SMU and has a continuous development, especially in staff and research for recent years. It has turned out nearly 1000 undergraduates.

 

Goal:

To cultivate senior specialist in computer field with the following competence and qualities: development of morality, intelligence and physique; command of basic knowledge of natural science and theory of computer science, application of computer software/hardware and English; ability to analyze and solve professional problems in practice.

 

Staff:

There are 42 faculty including 6 professors, 15 associate professors and 20 teachers with PhD degrees.

 

Courses offered:

Core courses: Introduction to Computer Science, High-level programming, computer theory and compilation, discrete mathematics, digital logic, data structures, etc.

Specialized courses: Operating systems, computer networks, software engineering, object-oriented programming, Compilation principle, theory and application of database, micro-computer technology, computer graphics, algorithm design and analysis, etc.

 

Development of specialized labs:

The department has good facility for teaching and scientific research and experiments, with the computer application software lab, computer architecture lab, Network Engineering Lab, computer room for staff and undergraduates, hardware laboratory and computer systems laboratory. It is equipped with more than one Sun workstation, more than 200 units of PC servers, desktop and laptop computers, high-speed network connected to the Internet, as well as other teaching instruments. Various laboratories  covers an area of 2500 square meters, there will the laboratory of computer software, laboratory of computer application, new computer technology labs for undergraduates

 

Development of Teaching and research:

Since 2001 the department has taken charge of research projects of national funds including ‘863Projects’, National Natural Science Fund, Fund of MOTC, Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai and project of CBE, with funding of more than 5 million yuan. More than 300 academic papers were published. The department was once awarded the 2nd prize of Technology Advance Award. Besides, the department got the honor of key major of shipping information engineering including a funding of 1.5 million and a ‘shipping information engineering education centre’ of 10 million. The teaching and practice has been strongly supported by cooperation with central and local governments and top-class companies in shipping and software inChina.

 

Employment for recent 3 years

In recent 3 years, 80% of 297 undergraduates confirmed their employment upon graduation. The affiliations include corporation of shipping, software, economy, telecommunications school and governments. Each year, some students have been enrolled by the top universities (FudanUniversity, SJTU,TongjiUniversity, etc.) for postgraduate programs or study abroad for doctoral degree.