Challenges and Success in Teaching Legal, Ethical, Social and Professional Issues to Computing Undergraduates

This paper discusses issues around the teaching of legal, ethical, social and professional issues (LESPI) to computing undergraduates. The inclusion of the above topics is mandatory for courses which seek accreditation from professional bodies in the UK such as the BCS and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Coverage of these issues is important to create a generation of engineers who see how their profession impacts society and the responsibilities that society places on them. In the UK and abroad the rise of e-crime and the invasion of privacy have attracted the attention of the media which has brought these issues to the forefront. These issues in the past have been sidelined in core computing curricula. The challenge lies in delivering these topics to students on computing programmes who may not immediately see the relevance despite their higher profile. We will discuss the role professional bodies can play in highlighting these issues and raising the profile of the professional engineer

Analysis of Student and Staff Experience in Industrial Projects

Engagement with industry is a topical issue within the computing academic community. Such engagement can take a variety of forms including the traditional year-long student industrial placement but also short term projects, many of which are publicly funded. This paper describes the experiences of both students and staff within the School of Computing, IT and Engineering at the University of East London and the various industrial activities in which they have been engaged. The paper will investigate how industrial engagement can benefit the various stakeholders and identify some of the challenges and opportunities presented by the various types of industrial engagement

Mechanical characterisation of hybrid glass/carbon fibre-reinforced plastics

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The strength of bolted joints in GFRP laminates

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Observe-decide-act: Experimental demonstration of a self-healing network

We experimentally demonstrate a self-healing network, following the observe-decide-act paradigm: monitoring reveals degradation, decision is taken, network is reconfigured to restore service. We also demonstrate, for the first time, pre-programmed resilience in integrated data/control testbed

Experimental demonstration of fully disaggregated white box including different types of transponders and monitors, controlled by NETCONF and YANG

We experimentally demonstrated a fully disaggregated white box composed of two different types of transponders, monitors (including filtering effect parameters), add-drop multiplexers, and switches. NETCONF and YANG control the hardware