Natural and Computing Sciences

MSc Financial Technology 

Wednesday 24 September, 11.00am - 11.45am, Fraser Noble 156

Rowena Hardy
ncspgt@abdn.ac.uk

Reading lists for individual courses will be available through MyAberdeen. In the meantime, you can brush up your study skills and learn more about the University at our award-winning Toolkit website.

NCS courses will be assessed through Continuous Assessment and a final Exam worth 50%. Continuous Assessment may include essays, projects, online exercises, and timed assessments online.

This will vary from course to course, and there will be specific details in every course guide at the start of term. For information on Business School courses please see the Business School page.

MSc Chemistry for Sustainable Energy

Monday 22 September, 2.00pm - 3.00pm, Meston 010

Rowena Hardy
ncspgt@abdn.ac.uk

Reading lists for individual courses will be available through MyAberdeen. In the meantime, you can brush up your study skills and learn more about the University at our award-winning Toolkit website.

You will be assessed in a variety of different ways; online multiple choice and typed answer tests, written lab reports, class exams. Continuous assessments may be individual or group work submissions.

We use a range of assessment methods to allow everyone to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding in a variety of ways.

Wednesday 24 September, 11.00am - 11.45am, Fraser Noble 114

MSc Artificial Intelligence

MSc Information Technology 

MSc Information Technology with Cybersecurity

Wednesday 24 September, 10.30am - 12.00pm, MacRobert, MR815

MSc Cybersecurity

MSc Cybersecurity and Machine Learning

Rowena Hardy
ncspgt@abdn.ac.uk

Reading lists for individual courses will be available through MyAberdeen. In the meantime, you can brush up your study skills and learn more about the University at our award-winning Toolkit website.

Most courses will not be assessed by formal exams on campus, unless you are taking a course for which a formal exam is required by a professional body. We will use alternative ways to assess your learning throughout the term. These may include essays, online exercises, and timed assessments online. This will vary from course to course, and there will be specific details in every course guide at the start of term.

If your course includes lab work or other kinds of practical sessions, we will aim to provide these subject to safety constraints or create online alternatives. If your course includes a placement, we will follow national guidance and health and safety requirements from professional bodies.

For Computing Science degrees at Undergraduate level plus the MSc Information Technology and MSc Artificial Intelligence programmes:

All Students MUST have:

• A modern computer (not a phone or tablet) with stand-alone compute capacity and the ability to function when not connected to the internet (not a chromebook etc).
• Students intending to study not fully online must have a functional laptop with a good battery that they can take to campus.
• Enough main memory (RAM) on the computer (indicatively, a typical minimum of 8GB)
• Enough free space on the hard drive (indicatively, a minimum of 40GB, for most activities, but more for some)
• A fast and stable enough internet connection to enable them to participate in online assessments and activities at scheduled times
• Built-in devices or peripherals to allow for interaction in meetings via sound and vision (camera, headphones).
• A backup drive, or cloud storage.

All students SHOULD:

• Arrange so that they will have uninterrupted access to their personal IT resources in the event of lockdowns
• Be advised to have to have a safe and comfortable place, properly configured with appropriate peripherals (e.g., large monitor, separate keyboard and mouse) to work for extended periods.

Students MAY use any operating system of their choice, with specific exclusions and caveats as below:

• The operating system MUST interface adequately with the University's information resources (webpages, MyAberdeen, MyTimetable, Student Portal, Office365, Microsoft Teams, etc.)
• Students without a Microsoft or Mac OS operating system (e.g. using Linux only) accept as their own responsibility any difficulties they may have in interacting with Microsoft Office products, e.g. through variations in supported fonts resulting in documents not displaying correctly.
• Students on the courses CS3026 Operating Systems and CS4048 Robotics MUST have access to the Linux Ubuntu operating system. A partition for dual-boot may have more acceptable performance than a virtual machine.

Students will be REQUIRED:

• To administer their own computers:
• This includes the requirement that they install and maintain the software required for courses or study on their machine.
• Digital and Information Services (DIS) do not do this. Academics in the School will not be able to do this.
• To install software on their machines as required for courses
• To set-up accounts and use accounts on third-party services used in courses, for example, but not limited to, Codio, Google, Amazon.

For students studying the MSc Data Science programme, the requirements are as follows:

Minimum requirements:

• Windows 10
• Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra) or later
• Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 or later or equivalent)
• Chrome Books, iPads, Surface Go, etc will not be sufficient
• Intel i7 or equivalent
• 16 GB of RAM
• 512 GB HDD
• >=13” screen
• Headset or appropriate speaker/microphone (Jabra)
• Internet access, download speed >5 MBits, upload >1 Mbit (Download of required software > 5GB, software is campus license)
• External hard drive

Ideal Specification:

• Windows 10, Mac OS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later, Ubuntu 19.04 or later
• Chrome Books, iPads, Surface Go, etc will not be sufficient
• Intel i7 or equivalent
• 32 GB of RAM
• 1GB SSD as HDD
• >=13” screen
• Headset or appropriate speaker/microphone (Jabra)
• Internet access, download speed >50 MBits, upload >10 MBits (Download of required software > 5GB, software is campus license)
• NVIDIA GPU (for Windows Systems, not supported by OS X)
• internet connection speed 8-10 MB/s download and 2 MB/s upload.

MSc Data Science

Monday 22 September, 10.00am - 12.00pm, Meston 311

Reading lists for individual courses will be available through MyAberdeen. In the meantime, you can brush up your study skills and learn more about the University at our award-winning Toolkit website.

We will use various ways to assess your learning throughout the term. These may include essays, online exercises, and timed assessments both on campus and online. This will vary from course to course, and there will be specific details in every course guide at the start of term.

If your course includes lab work or other kinds of practical sessions, we will aim to provide these subject to safety constraints or create online alternatives. If your course includes a placement, we will follow national guidance and health and safety requirements from professional bodies.