School of Computer Science BCS accreditation 2021 - 2026

Computer Systems Engineering BEng (Hons) - 2.1.7 Knowledge and understanding of commercial and economic issues

COMP15212 Operating Systems

Covered indirectly through consideration of performance / cost of OS/hardware.

Assesement : Not Assessed

COMP22712 Microcontrollers

Understanding design factors and their economical impact.

Assesement : Not Assessed

COMP23311 Software Engineering 1

Students estimate the cost (in time) of fixing bugs using Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) so they can justify the estimates they make when fixing

Assesement : Examination, Group coursework

COMP23412 Software Engineering 2

When exploring the space of APIs that may help addressing the requirements, students learn the conditions of some services that are commercial and may constrain the ability of the system to scale (SaaS).

Assesement : Examination, Group coursework

COMP25212 System Architecture

The last lectures cover current and future trends in systems architecture, part of this is discussed in a business context

Assesement : Examination

COMP30040 Third Year Project Laboratory

Commercial considerations may impact some projects

Assesement : Individual coursework

COMP35112 Chip Multiprocessors

Lectures are explicit about the lack of accurate information about how commercial cache protocols and related hardware-level schemes actually work due to the commercial sensitivities.

Assesement : Examination