Welcome
The University of Strathclyde is one of the best universities in the UK for science and engineering. It is located in the heart of Glasgow, an exciting and vibrant city with all the cultural highlights close to hand, including the world famous Burrell Collection, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Scottish Ballet and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Scotland is one of Europe’s most exciting destinations, renowned for its beautiful countryside and friendly people.

 

Strathclyde University is known as the place of useful learning, with excellent links with industry and business and world-class research. There are excellent facilities for students within the Department: a number of well-equipped teaching laboratories, dedicated study space and a large social area where students can meet with their fellow students, work on their projects, or just relax.

 

The Department has a reputation among its students for being friendly and for having a real community spirit. The staff are enthusiastic teachers and researchers, passionate about their subject, and very approachable. International students are warmly welcomed and quickly integrated into university life.

 

Academic Strengths
The Department of Computer and Information Science spans a range of areas within computer science and information systems, resulting in a lively and diverse Department with a unique character. Research interests span the whole spectrum of theory and application from fundamental algorithms and Software Engineering to Digital Libraries and Epi-Informatics. This diversity gives the Department a refreshing perspective on the Computer Science curriculum and its role in the modern world. Particular research strengths are in complex systems design, information retrieval and Artificial Intelligence including AI Planning, machine learning and genetic algorithms.

 

Undergraduate Degrees

The Department offers the following degrees:

MEng Computer Science
BSc (Honours) Computer Science
BSc (Honours) Software Engineering
BSc (Honours) Information Systems
BSc (Honours) Internet Computing
BSc (Honours) Computer Science with Law
BSc (Honours) Business Information Systems
MEng and BEng (Honours) Computer & Electronic Systems – offered jointly with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

 

Computing is a young, exciting and rapidly evolving subject and its influence in our everyday lives – for work, study, and recreation – is rapidly increasing. It opens up a wide variety of career paths and provides you with a set of skills that will allow you to tackle major technical challenges with confidence and expertise.

 

All our courses have a strong practical component that complements the underlying theoretical foundations. There is a high degree of commonality between the early foundational years which makes it possible to transfer between courses.

 

Postgraduate Degrees

The Department offers the following taught post-graduate degrees:

PG Dip/MSc Information Management
PG Dip/MSc Information and Library Systems
PG Dip/MSc Computer and Internet Technologies
PG Dip/MSc Forensic Informatics

 

The Information Management degree is designed to create versatile managers who can operate at the interface between business, information resources and information and communications technologies. The Computer and Internet Technologies degree is aimed at students with a background in computer science, engineering or a mathematical discipline. It provides them with a specialised knowledge of internet programming, enterprise networking, mobile applications and computer security. The Information and Library Studies degree provides a professional qualification for those wishing to work in the library sector. The course is accredited by CILIP, the UK's professional body, and is recognised world-wide.

 

The Forensic Informatics degree, taught in conjunction with the University’s Centre for Forensic Science, seeks to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform forensic investigation of all aspects of crime and terrorism involving computers, networks and mobile communications systems.  

 

All of these courses are an excellent preparation for a career in industry or academia.

 

Under the Scottish Executive Fresh Talent Initiative, students who require a visa, and who successfully complete our MSc degrees, can have up to two years extension enabling them to stay and work in Scotland.

 

Research Degrees

The department offers a wide range of research opportunities in Software Engineering, Information Management, Digital Libraries, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Systems.

 

Enquiries
For further information please contact:

 

Undergraduate degrees:
Duncan Smeed
Duncan.smeed@cis.strath.ac.uk

Postgraduate taught degrees:
Steven Buchanan
Steven.buchanan@cis.strath.ac.uk

Research opportunities:
Derek Long
Derek.long@cis.strath.ac.uk

 

For detailed information about our degrees and the Department, please see our web site:

http://www.strath.ac.uk/cis

 

General enquiries can also be made to:

enquiries@cis.strath.ac.uk

Staff Profile

 

Dr Derek Long, Reader in Computer Science,

Dr Derek Long researches in Artificial Intelligence, specialising in automated planning. This problem is central to the realisation of autonomous intelligent systems, such as space probes including planetary explorers. Planning problems are optimisation problems that involve finding schedules of activities that will achieve some specified collection of goals, within constraints on resources and time.

 

Derek is shown here with a copy of the Beagle 2 lander, designed by British scientists to perform science experiments on the surface of Mars. Although the lander shared the fate of more than half of Martian probes, failing to make contact after its landing on December 25th 2003, its design continues to play an important role in proposals for the European Space Agency's ExoMars lander planned for 2013. Derek is contributing towards work that aims to include intelligent on-board planning capabilities for ExoMars.

Student Profile

 

I wanted to build on my background in management and Marketing, and develop my ability to use science and technology to complement my existing approaches to solving business problems. For this reason I chose to read Information Management at the University of Strathclyde.  Besides providing me with attractive employment opportunities in industry, this experience has helped me to co-found an entrepreneurial high technology start up company that I intend to develop full-time on completion of my MSc thesis. I have learned a wide range of valuable skills and I feel that investing my time in postgraduate study and been very worthwhile.

 

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