I am the Quality Assurance Lead for Eonfusion and Eonfusion Flood, and the ICT Manager of Myriax. Eonfusion is a software application for the 4D analysis and visualization of time-varying spatial data. Eonfusion Flood is an interactive hydrodynamic modeling product which allows for both particle and grid based modeling. I am responsible for both setting and monitoring the quality standards of the Eonfusion and Eonfusion Flood projects. I enjoy managing the testing resources, building test cases that push the limits of current computing power, and engineering scenarios that can break assumptions before code is written.
What I love about Information Technology is what attracted me to it initially during High School. IT is an actively evolving entity which is constantly building and undertaking revolution due to our collective understanding. Working in IT we are able to harness the developments and achievements of the community and then strive further, pushing the edge of what is achievable and defining the new norms. Advances in IT continue to increase our efficiency and our abilities, while being available and applicable to all, even if we don't realise it.
UTAS gave me the techniques to learn and understand the fundamentals of Information Technology, together with the understanding that the learning never ends. Software engineering project gave me invaluable insight into the software development lifecycle and a set of close friends that I still have to this day.
There is a high demand for legal professionals with a qualification in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - and ICT professionals who are qualified in law. Studying ICT and law will give students this balance of theory and practice, the technological and intellectual. It's a combined degree designed to produce professionals skilled in the legal, corporate and technology arenas, and ready for work in legal, corporate and political organisations. The degree provides students with an opportunity to gain qualifications that will provide more breadth and offer wider opportunities for employment.
The Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (BICT) aims to give students the opportunity to explore a broad range of aspects of ICT, and to graduate them with knowledge and skills in a variety of key areas of ICT for a lifelong career. The degree offers units across the complete spectrum of ICT, ranging from non-technical areas such as the nature of information and organisational needs for ICT, through the hardware, software, network and creative technologies which are used to satisfy these needs, to the communication, design, development and management skills needed to create, implement and integrate ICT components. The degree produces ICT professionals who are confident and articulate team players, and who are attuned to the needs, methods and attitudes of business and society. The BICT aims to provide ICT graduates with the skills and knowledge to take on appropriate professional positions in industry upon graduation and grow into leadership positions, achieve entrepreneurial ambition, or pursue research and graduate studies in ICT.
The Bachelor of Laws (LLB) provides academic preparation for students who want to enter the legal profession. The course aims to give students an understanding of the role of law in society and appreciate that the law operates in many contexts.
Course code: 63R, CRICOS code: 079990D
The learning outcomes for the combined degree will be an aggregation of those specified in the new BICT as well as the current LLB.
Graduates of the BICT-LLB should expect to have the same career outcomes as identified for the LLB and BICT. Graduates of the combined degree would be particularly valuable to large research organisations.
The BICT has been developed in consultation with the Australian Computer Society (ACS), and professional level accreditation will be sought after there have been some graduates. It is anticipated that graduates of the BICT-LLB will be eligible for full membership of the ACS.
Graduates of the LLB are eligible for membership of a number of professional organisations. Specific details are provided under the LLB. Only units from Schedule C fulfill the requirements for the Bachelor of Laws component of the degree, as approved by the University and the accrediting body, the Tasmanian Board of Legal Education.
The BICT-LLB is a 5 year combined degree.
The Bachelor of Laws component follows a Specialist structure, model 1 and consists of two majors and a further eight additional advanced level units, plus LAW455 Mooting
The BICT component of the combined degree follows a 3 year generalist model with a major and a linked minor and a set of degree electives (that includes LAW121 and LAW122).
Sample Program
This sample program demonstrates the ICT Professional major (blue), Information Technology minor (purple), degree electives (yellow), Law Majors (apricot).
Year 1 |
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Law 121 |
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Sem 2 |
Law122 |
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Year 2 |
Sem 1 |
Law Major 1 |
Law Major 2 |
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Year 3 |
Sem 1 |
BICT Major Elective |
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Sem 2 |
BICT Major Elective x 2 |
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Year 4 |
Sem 1 |
Law Year 4 (Law Majors 1 & 2) |
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Year 5 |
Sem 1 |
Law year 5 advanced year + 1 extra unit for Mooting |
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1 If students don't need to complete KIT101, then students can choose Artificial Intelligence.
GCT Major Electives
BICT Major electives
5 years, maximum time of 11 years
The BICT is available on both the Sandy Bay campus in Hobart. Some units will use flexible delivery strategies including packaged online learning modules or recorded lectures allowing students to complete some learning off campus.
Possession of the University's basic academic entry requirements as shown on:
http://www.utas.edu.au/admissions/undergraduate/admission-requirements
The English Language requirements will be those that are established for most University of Tasmania undergraduate programs, as shown on:
http://www.utas.edu.au/admissions/undergraduate/admission-requirements
BICT pre-requisites
While no prerequisites apply for the degree, students who have not successfully completed TCE MAP5C Mathematics Applied, or, an approved equivalent unit, or, a higher level Mathematics subject, are recommended to complete KMA003 Mathematics Foundation Unit.
Similarly, students who have not successfully completed TCE Computer Science (ITC315108 or ITC315113), or an approved equivalent unit, or a higher level Computer Programming subject, must complete either KIT001 Programming Preparation or KIT101 Programming Fundamentals before commencing KIT107 Programming.
LLB pre-requisites
As described on the Bachelor of Laws.
