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Computer Systems Engineering wIE MEng (Hons) - 2.1.7 Knowledge and understanding of commercial and economic issues
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COMP15212 Operating Systems
Covered indirectly through consideration of performance / cost of OS/hardware.
Assesement : Not Assessed
Assesement : Not Assessed
COMP22712 Microcontrollers
Understanding design factors and their economical impact.
Assesement : Not Assessed
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
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
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
Assesement : Examination
COMP30040 Third Year Project Laboratory
Commercial considerations may impact some projects
Assesement : Individual coursework
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
Assesement : Examination