Advanced education needs to keep up with rapid advances in
technologies. In the fields of networking and distributed systems,
technology changes are especially rapid; a major new thrust emerges
approximately every two or three years, and new applications develop
continuously. It is likely that the pace will only accelerate in the
next decade. Advanced education must reflect the changes in the field
in a timely way.
Hence, the proposed project will be open to the trends of the
future. The courses' syllabuses will reflect the current state of
technology in networking and distributed systems and will be able to
evolve towards the development of those areas. To assure this,
the following actions will be taken:
seminars covering the up-to-the-minute status of the technology
will be included in the courses' programs
for the needs of those seminars, a framework of information
gathering will be set up, involving traditional (books and journals)
and new sources of information (like World Wide Web, ftp service,
USENET news, etc.), in order to assure the proper level of knowledge
of the participants
the teaching staff involved in the proposed project will be
retrained (follow courses) at the EC partners universities
practical placements at the laboratories of
leading market companies will be organized for the teaching staff to
trace the current industrial technologies
links with cooperating educational and industrial institutions
will be kept and maintained, allowing future cooperation and
information exchange
researchers who work at the forefront of
technologies and applications will be encouraged to connect their
programs closely to educational programs. For example, new course
materials, lecture notes and lab workbooks will be developed around
research projects, and made available to a large number of
students
the laboratory equipment to be funded by TEMPUS will be chosen on
the basis of technical analysis, to assure its future extendability
and development.
IThe emerging market economies of the East and Central Europe require
introducing a number of large scale, efficient information
systems. The current networking and telecommunications technology have
reached the level enabling straightforward transfer of the most
advanced standards from Western to Eastern and Central European
Countries. We cansee a rapid growth of the network &
telecommunication infrastructure there. The emerging computer
networks, built according to the newest high-technology (in the
hardware and protocols sense), make possible the utilization of the most
advanced software technology, whose mastering and introducing requires
even more intellectual effort. The Polish enterprises currently
intensively seek for university graduates (engineers with a BSc
degree) aware of these technologies and skilled in their application
in various sectors of the national economy. The expected result of the
proposed project is to educate engineers (BSc graduates) able to
answer those growing industry's needs.
The experiences and results of restructuring courses for the needs of
the developed BSc level will form a basis for the establishment of
continuing education courses for the staff of non-educational
institutions, including public administration and local government
agencies. Those courses will be held in the area of network design,
integration and configuration, as well as the utilization of computer
networks to creation of large scale informationsystems.