Academic Year:
| 2012/3 |
Owning Department/School:
| Department of Computer Science |
Credits:
| 6 |
Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
Period: |
Semester 1
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Assessment:
| EX 100% |
Supplementary Assessment: | CM30072 Mandatory Extra Work (where allowed by programme regulations) |
Requisites:
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Description:
| Aims: To give an appreciation of the current state of safe systems development. To develop an understanding of risk in systems. To give a foundation in hazard analysis models and techniques. To show how safety principles may be built into all stages of the software development process.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course a student should be able to demonstrate the following:
1. An understanding of the nature of risk in developing computer-based systems.
2. The ability to choose and apply appropriate hazard analysis models for simple safety-related problems.
3. An understanding of how to approach the design of safety-critical software systems.
Skills: IT (T, A).
Content: The nature of risk: computers and risk; how accidents happen; human error. System safety: historical approaches to system safety; basic concepts and terminology. Managing the development of safety-critical systems. Modeling human error and the accident process. Hazard analysis: basic principles; models and techniques. Safety principles in the software lifecycle: hazard analysis as part of requirements analysis; designing for safety; designing the human-machine interface; verification of safety in computer systems.
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Programme availability:
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CM30072 is Compulsory on the following programmes:
Department of Computer Science
- USCM-AFB11 : BSc (hons) Computer Information Systems (Full-time) - Year 3
- USCM-AKB12 : BSc (hons) Computer Information Systems (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AAB12 : BSc (hons) Computer Information Systems with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
CM30072 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Computer Science
- USCM-AFB01 : BSc Computing (Full-time) - Year 3
- USCM-AKB01 : BSc Computing (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AFB06 : BSc (hons) Computer Science (Full-time) - Year 3
- USCM-AKB07 : BSc (hons) Computer Science (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AKB19 : BSc (hons) Computer Science (incl. ab initio Japanese Language & with Industrial Placement) (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AKB18 : BSc (hons) Computer Science (incl. ab initio Mandarin Chinese Lang & with Industrial Placement) (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AFB19 : BSc (hons) Computer Science (including ab initio Japanese Language) (Full-time) - Year 3
- USCM-AFB18 : BSc (hons) Computer Science (including ab initio Mandarin Chinese Language) (Full-time) - Year 3
- USCM-AFB09 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Business (Full-time) - Year 3
- USCM-AKB10 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Business (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AAB10 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Business with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- USCM-AKB15 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with French Language (with Industrial Placement) (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AAB15 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with French Language (with Study Year Abroad) (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- USCM-AKB16 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with German Language (with Industrial Placement) (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AAB16 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with German Language (with Study Year Abroad) (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- USCM-AKB17 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Spanish Language (with Industrial Placement) (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AAB17 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Spanish Language (with Study Year Abroad) (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- USCM-AAB07 : BSc (hons) Computer Science with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
- USCM-AFM01 : MComp (hons) Computer Science (Full-time) - Year 3
- USCM-AKM02 : MComp (hons) Computer Science (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 4
- USCM-AAM02 : MComp (hons) Computer Science with Study Year Abroad (Full-time with Study Year Abroad) - Year 4
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
- UEEE-AFM07 : MEng (hons) Computers Electronics and Communications (Full-time) - Year 4
- UEEE-AKM07 : MEng (hons) Computers Electronics and Communications (Full-time with Thick Sandwich Placement) - Year 5
Department of Mathematical Sciences
- TSMA-AFM08 : MSc Modern Applications of Mathematics (Full-time) - Year 1
- TSMA-AFL02 : PG Dip Modern Applications of Mathematics (Full-time) - Year 1
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