Location, contacts and inquiries
Environmental Health and Safety Plan
Computing facilities
Centres within the Faculty
Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice
Short courses

The Faculty of Information Technology operates with three departments – Computer Systems, Information Systems and Software Engineering. Together these disciplines form the basis of 'enabling technologies' for applications in most other disciplines. Student administration functions are all centralised at Faculty level. Teaching is carried out at City campus, Broadway.

A range of professional degrees are offered, from undergraduate through to Doctoral studies. The Faculty maintains a strong commitment to cooperative education, of both the work experience 'sandwich' form and the cooperative scholarship form. The Faculty continues to be active in research and has strong links with industry in all aspects of its work.

Location, contacts and inquiries

Academic advisers
Academic liaison officers

All Faculty staff are located at Building 10, City campus, Broadway.

telephone +61 2 9514 1803

http://www.it.uts.edu.au

Academic advisers

Undergraduate programs in information technology

Madhu Goyal

Helen Lu

Suresh Paryani

Jim Underwood (Program Leader)

Bachelor of Information Technology

Chris S Johnson (Program Leader)

Postgraduate programs in computing and information technology

IT program

Kyeong-Soon Kang

Rene Leveaux

Advanced Computing Program, Graduate Certificate in IT Project Management, Master of Commercial Software Engineering Management, Master of IT Management, Professional Computing Program

Dr George Feuerlicht

Master of Business in IT Management, Graduate Certificate in Strategic IT Leadership

Associate Professor Ken Dovey

Internetworking Program and CISCO Network Academy

Ury Szewcow

Postgraduate research degrees

Associate Professor Jie Lu

Academic liaison officers

Dr Daniel Chandran

Jim Underwood (Program Leader)

Jumbunna liaison

Dr Toni Robertson

International selection

Dr Wayne Brookes

Library

Dr Daniel Chandran

Undergraduate projects

Dr Tony Jan

Postgraduate projects

Associate Profesor Barry Jay

Associate Professor David Wilson

Refer to Faculty contact details for Program Leaders and staff contact details.

Environmental Health and Safety Plan

The Faculty is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for students, staff and visitors, and adopting a socially responsible approach towards protecting and sustaining the environment. Promoting a safe, healthy and environmentally-sound environment is the resonsibilty of all staff.

The Faculty has an Environmental Health and Safety Plan, copies of which are available on the Faculty's website. Staff and students should familiarise themselves with the plan and comply with all hazard procedures outlined in it.

The names and locations of First Aid Officers, and of first aid kits, are indicated by appropriate signs in Faculty and Department areas.

Computing facilities

The Faculty provides network-connected laboratories used in both teaching and research. The network and UNIX servers provide the application software required and network services (www, ftp, email, news) used to access resources and information throughout the University and the world.

Teaching laboratories

Computer laboratories

Linux workstations provide students with a UNIX environment. They are used for many of the Faculty's subjects. The Faculty has 13 laboratories of 30 computers capable of running either Linux or MS Operating systems on demand and three internetworking laboratories.

Access

General access to laboratories is 9.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m., Monday to Friday, during semester. On some occasions laboratories are booked for different subjects and, during these booked times, students not enrolled in those subjects should vacate the laboratories. Timetable bookings are located on lab doors and are available on the Faculty's website. After the first week of each semester's examination period, and also during vacation periods, the laboratories are available only between 9.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. Seven-days-per-week, 24-hour access is provided in some laboratories throughout the University.

Specific-purpose laboratories

Access to specific-purpose laboratories is arranged by the academic involved in a particular subject or research project.

Internetworking laboratories

These three laboratories are equipped for teaching computer network subjects. They are equipped with user configurable rack mounted network equipment.

Graphics laboratory

There are a number of PC/Windows computers for graphics subjects.

Access Grid

The Faculty operates an Access Grid (AG) node on behalf of the University. This provides a research environment for the study of issues relating to collaborative work in distributed environments. The AG utilises a high-bandwidth environment for virtual meetings. The AG node at UTS is provided for the use of the research community at UTS and is connected to GrangeNet – a multi-gigabit experimental network to support grid and advanced communication services.

Collaborative systems

A research laboratory applying computer communications technology to improving work practices.

Creativity and Cognition studios

These studios form a multidisciplinary environment for research into computing support for creativity and into the development of new art forms and art practice using digital media. They include a sound studio and a video wall with an interaction space incorporating a range of sensor systems.

Remote access facility

The remote access facility provides modem access for students and staff through either terminal emulation or remote network connection using PPP. This allows users to access some of the Faculty's computing systems and perform work from home via 30 shared dial-up lines.

Help desk facility

The Faculty's help desk, located in the Technical Support Centre at CB10.3.370, provides users with information on the usage of equipment, software and facilities, help with problems, and is a point of contact for reporting faults:

Centres within the Faculty

The Faculty contributes to UTS research strengths through formal links to external organisations, University Research Institutes and the following centres.

Institute for Information and Communication Technologies

The Institute for Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) is dedicated to research into advanced aspects of the networked world and undertakes such research in collaboration with industrial partners, and the key participating faculties Engineering and Information Technology. IICT initially supports work in the following areas: Communications, Networks and Architecture, and the Smart e-Business Laboratory.

For further information, contact:

Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research (COTAR)

Established in 1994, the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research (COTAR) provides a focal point for the software industry using, or considering using, the new software development techniques of object technology. COTAR aims to promote and conduct research in object-oriented software engineering, object-oriented information systems and object-oriented computing. It provides not only a focus for such research and collaborative work with industry, but also high quality professional development education.

For further information, contact:

Cooperative Research Centre for Capital Markets

The CRC for Capital Markets aims to be the technology provider of choice to global securities business markets. It supports research programs in corporate governance, data mining, inter-operability, language technology, market design and visualisation.

For further information, contact:

Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice

• Testamur title: Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice
• Abbreviation: DipITProfPrac
• Load credit points: 12

The Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice is not available as a separate course, but is received upon completion of the Industrial Training component of some of the Faculty's undergraduate programs.

Note that when an international student chooses to undertake the DipITProfPrac, it is classified as a requirement of the course and such students are permitted to work in excess of the 20 hours per week normally allowed by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA).

Overview

The DipITProfPrac may be undertaken in:

• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice (C10152)
• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice, Bachelor of Laws (C10141), or
• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Diploma of Information Technology Professional Practice, Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (C10150).

Students find the Diploma extremely beneficial in relating the final year of coursework to the practical needs of the information industry, and this experience can be cited when applying for graduate career positions.

Course aims

The Diploma aims to develop students' technical and generic work skills in a workplace environment, and to enable students to develop lifelong learning skills so they gain a better understanding of the relationship between theory and practice.

Additional admission requirements

No student is permitted to enrol in the DipITProfPrac until they have obtained suitable employment and completed successfully (or been exempted from) all subjects that are prerequisites for Industrial Training in the particular undergraduate course they are undertaking. Contact the Faculty for details of prerequisite subjects.

Additional advanced standing

In exceptional circumstances students completing the DipITProfPrac may be granted an exemption from the subjects 31137 IT Experience 1 and 31139 IT Experience 2, if they have at least 12 months of suitable recent full-time employment. In general, contracting and self-employment are not regarded as suitable employment.

Students will not be exempted from 31136 Preparation and Review of IT Experience and 31138 Review of IT Experience.

No student may apply for an exemption from 31137 and 31139 until after successful completion of (or exemption from) all subjects that are prerequisites for Industrial Training.

Course duration and attendance

Students are required to obtain an approved, full-time job within the information technology industry for a minimum of nine months.

Course structure

Full-time BSc(InfTech), DipITProfPrac (C10152) students normally undertake the DipITProfPrac and Industrial Training after completing Year 2, and part-time students after completing Year 4.

BSc(InfTech), DipITProfPrac, LLB (C10141) students normally undertake the DipITProfPrac after completing Semester 7.

BSc(InfTech), DipITProfPrac, BA (C10150) students normally undertake the DipITProfPrac after completing Year 4.

Other information

Although securing suitable employment is the student's responsibility, the Faculty provides assistance to all students – refer to the DipITProfPrac Student Guide for the procedure to be followed.

Students seeking a position without assistance from the Faculty should first make an appointment to see the Industry Liaison Officer. If a student finds employment, a second appointment must be made to see the Industry Liaison Officer to obtain certification that the employment is suitable.

For further information contact the Faculty on:

Short courses

The Faculty offers a variety of short courses throughout the year in the areas of computing and information technology.

Courses regularly on offer include: Advanced Java (J2EE); Developing Windows and Web Applications using Visual Studio .NET; Fundamentals of Unix; IP Telephony and Voice Over IP (VoIP); Java Fundamentals; Network Security; Object-oriented Programming with C++; Programming with C; SQL Server 2005 for Business Intelligence; SQL Server 2005 for Developers; Wireless LANs: Protocols and Technologies; and a range of Cisco Network Academy sponsored preparation stages for certification. Computing and IT courses can also be customised for corporate clients.

Information on all short courses is available from the Student Centre on: