Closed Laboratory Equipment Improvement

1991年，该大学对其计算机科学课程进行了全面改革。这场改革是由一项批判性的自我分析引发的，该分析得出的结论是，当代课程--包括该大学的课程--没有为学生为行业或研究生学习做好准备。学生们正在训练自己用一种废弃的语言从头开始编写300行代码。显然，这个系统与当代计算专业人士所需要的相反，他们迫切需要更严格的要求和更多的技能发展。作为全面改革的一部分，详细介绍了新的课程理念和概览；开发了七门新的核心课程，在其中四门课程中纳入了封闭实验室的组成部分。由于封闭式实验室对本课程的成功起着如此关键的作用，因此实验室设备必须是最新的和可靠的。在该项目中，为封闭式实验室活动提供了两种类型的设备采购支持：用于实验室教室的新PC和用于软件工程项目的新机器人。

In 1991, the university undertook a complete overhaul of its Computer Science curriculum. The overhaul was provoked by a critical self-analysis which concluded that contemporary curricula, including that at the university, did not prepare students well for either industry or graduate study. Students were training to write 300-line programs, by themselves, from scratch, in a dead language. Obviously, this system is the antithesis of what is needed by a contemporary computing professional both more rigor and more skill development were sorely needed. As part of the overhaul, a new curriculum philosophy and overview were detailed; seven new core courses were developed, incorporating a closed-laboratory component in four of the courses. With the closed laboratory playing such a critical role in the success of this curriculum, the laboratory equipment must be up-to-date and reliable. In this project, support for two types of equipment purchase is provided for the closed-laboratory activities: new PCs for the laboratory classrooms and a new robot for software engineering projects.