University of Zagreb

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University of Zagreb

• The University of Zagreb is the oldest Croatian
  university and also the oldest university in
  South-Eastern Europe.
• The university was officially founded 23
  September 1669 by Emperor and King Leopold I
  Habsburg who issued a diploma granting the status
  and privileges of a university to the Jesuit
  Academy of the Royal Free City of Zagreb.
• According to that document the study of
  philosophy in Zagreb acquired a formal and legal
  status as Neoacademia Zagrabiensis and officially
  became a public institution of higher education.

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University of Zagreb

• 28 Faculties
• 3 Art Academies
• Specific organization Faculties are legal
  entities
• www.unizg.hr

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The University in numbers

• 53.951 students in academic year 1998/99.
• Since 1874
• more than 200.000 students graduated
• more than 18.000 students obtained masters
  degrees
• more than 8.000 students obtained Ph.d. degrees

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

• By decision of the Parliament of the People's
  Republic of Croatia of 26 April 1956, the former
  College of Engineering of the University of
  Zagreb was divided into four new faculties, one
  of them becoming Faculty of Electrical
  Engineering, which started its independent
  existence on July 1st, 1956.
• The Faculty of Electrical Engineering (ETF -
  Elektrotehnicki fakultet, in Croatian)existed
  under this name until February 7th, 1995when it
  was renamed the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
  and Computing.
• Curriculum changed 5 times since 1956.
• Computing introduced in 1970.

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FER in numbers
Graduate students 3500
Postgraduate students 500
Freshmen each year 650
Graduating students each year 500
Educational and Research staff 260
RD projects associates 50
Other staff 100
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FER in numbers

• From 1956 to the academic year 1999/2000
• 11238 students were awarded a dipl.ing. degree
• 1546 candidates were awarded a Master of Science
  degree and
• 426 were awarded a Doctor of Science degree.

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FER Map
Skyscraper
Main entrance
43308 m2
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Faculty grounds

• Educational and RD facilities 43308 m2
• Congress centre
• Distance Learning Centre
• Library
• Restaurant
• Sport Recreation facilities
• Art Gallery

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Facilities
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FER Gallery
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11 Departments

• Applied Physics
• Applied Mathematics
• Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and
  Measurements
• Electric Machines, Drives and Automation
• Power Systems
• Telecommunications
• Electronic Systems and Information Processing
• Control and Computer Engineering in Automation
• Electroacoustics
• Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and
  Intelligent Systems
• Radiocommunications and Microwave Engineering

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Undergraduate (Dipl.Ing.) andpost-graduate
studies (M.Sc, Ph.D.)

• In the field of electrical engineering(Study of
  Electrical Engineering)
• Electrical Power Engineering,
• Electrical Machines and Control of Electric
  Drives,
• Automatics,
• Industrial Electronics,
• Radiocommunications and Professional Electronics,
  
• Telecommunications and Informatics.
• In the field of computing (Study of Computing)
• slight profiling is done through elective
  curriculums

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Undergraduate studies

• 9 semesters
• The Preparation stage (1st and 2nd year)
• common courses
• elective courses in the 4. semester
• The Finishing stage (3rd ,4th 5th year)
• obligatory courses related to elected
  field/branch
• elective courses
• seminars
• graduation thesis
• 5 year study diploma dipl.ing. ? B.Sc.E.E.

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FER Student activities

• KSET Electrical engineering Students
  clubhttp//www.kset.org/
• IEEE student branchhttp//ieee-sb.cc.fer.hr/
• SRKStudent computer clubhttp//fly.cc.fer.hr/

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Diploma Study in Management

• Introduction
• One semester
• Introduces students to the essentials of a
  manager joband to real problems in enterprises.
• Organization
• Visiting professors from Germany, UK and USA
• Most of the courses are recognized in case a
  candidate continues education on the MBA program
  at the University of Zagreb
• Entrance propositions
• Engineering diploma(preferably University of
  Zagreb Technical Faculty Diploma)
• Exam in the Essentials of Business Logic
• English exam

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Computer Science Group

• ZPM/GRZ

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Computer Science Group

• Part of the Department of Applied Mathematics
• The Group currently consists of 25 people
• 1 full professor
• 3 associate professors
• 1 assistant professor
• 1 teaching assistant
• 6 scientific novices
• 3 research associates
• 2 engineers for the Faculty IT support
• 7 attached engineers from the University
  Computing Centre
• 1 secretary
• 3 honorary lecturers

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Educational Activities

• Core undergraduate courses
• Computer applications
• Programming
• Algorithms and data structures
• Introduction to databases
  
• Databases
• Elective courses
• Programming paradigms and languages
• Object oriented programming
• Operational research
• Data warehousing
• Ergonomics in computing
• Information systems development
• Protection and security of information systems
  

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Educational Activities

• Postgraduate courses
• Applied numerical methods
  
• Data structures and algorithms
  
• Databases
  
• Operational research
  
• Quantitative methods in risk management
  
  
• Standardization in software engineering
  
• Information systems management
• Structured programming techniques
• Electronic business

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Educational Activities

• Lecturing on other high and higher education
  institutions
• other faculties of the University in Zagreb
• Technical Faculty, Rijeka
• Faculty of Electrical, Mechanical na Naval
  Engineering, Split
• The Polytechnic of Dubrovnik
• The Polytechnic of Zagreb
• High School of Tourism, Šibenik
• Unversity of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Research interests

• Mathematical modelling
• Development of proprietary optimisation software
• Natural language processing
• Development of proprietary CASE tools
• Databases, Data warehousing Mining
• Information systems methodology success factors
• Business intelligence
• Maintenance problems
• Distant learning

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Projects

• Support to high education
• Students administration software (Faculty of
  Electrical Engineering and Computing)
• Class scheduling program (multiple educational
  institutions)
• Distributed university library software (Faculty
  of Electrical Engineering and Computing)
• Information system of the subsidised student
  aliment (Ministry of Science and Technology)
• Information system of high education (Ministry of
  Science and Technology)
• System for automatic knowledge checking and
  surveying (Ministry of Science and Technology)

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Projects

• Support to the state administration
• Automatic coding of Census 1991 data (Croatian
  Statistics Bureau, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Statistics Bureau)
• Software for planning of meals (Croatian Army)
• Human Resources Information system (Ministry of
  Defence)
• Computer supported organisation and decision
  making (Ministry of Science and Technology)
• Information system project (Inspection Division
  of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and
  Physical Planning)

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Projects

• Support to state owned companies
• Database of document templates (INA Oil Industry)
• Technical maintenance information system
  (Croatian National Electricity)
• Preparatory activities for building of IS
  (Croatian Railways)
• Highway signalisation (Croatian Roads)

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Projects

• Support to manufacturing optimisation
• Linear and multicriterial programming software
  (Electrical Power Institute, INA, Kordun, AD
  Plastik, PowerSoft Germany)
• Optimisation of cutting stock (Xerox California,
  Kordun, Lovincic)
• Optimisation of oil transport (INA)
• Production planning software (AD Plastik)
• Comparative analysis of ERP software in Republic
  of Croatia, (Ministry of Science and Technology)

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Projects

• Web-oriented applications
• Hybrid Web-based advertising and commerce system
  (SatLine, Germany)
• Catalogue of Croatian flora (Biology Department
  of the Faculty of Natural Sciences)
• System for automated maintenance of Web sites
  (Ministry of Science and Technology)
• Students information portal (Ministry of Science
  and Technology)

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Information systems development

• Systems concepts and the ISD environment
• System development life cycle
• Identification, selection and initiation of ISD
  projects
• Systems analysis and design
• Requirements elicitation, analysis, specification
  and validation.
• Functional decomposition. Process modelling.
  Event modelling.
• Conceptual data modelling. Database design and
  database tuning.
• Program design and user interface design.
• Systems construction
• Coding and testing. Code reuse.
• Coding standards and documentation.
• Software verification and validation.

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Information systems development

• System operation and maintenance
• Installation and maintenance
• Training, guidance and support
• Software reengineering
• Development process models
• Advanced analysis and design methods
• Prototyping
• Rapid application development
• Object-oriented analysis and design
• Information systems management
• Project organization and team management
• Software tools
• Languages, IDEs, CASE and CAP
• Real life problems, Case studies

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Information systems management

• Fundamentals of information systems
• Software engineering and information systems
  engineering
• Systems development life cycle
• IS Strategy and Organization
• Information systems planning
• Business process reengineering
• Requirements engineering
• Requirements development
• Requirements control
• Project management
• Planning, Organization, Forecasting, Scheduling,
  Control
• Project Feasibility
• Risk Analysis, Management and Monitoring

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Information systems management

• Software configuration management
• Configuration Identification, Control, Audit and
  Status Accounting
• Change management
• Software reengineering
• Information systems software
• Legacy systems
• Enterprise resource planning software packages
• System evaluation and acquisition
• Build vs. Buy
• IS development methodologies
• Best practices, Rules of thumb, Common sense

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Structured programming techniques

• Software development
• Structured programming
• Principles, Information hiding (Parnas), Levels
  of abstraction (Dijkstra), Incremental refinement
  (Wirth)
• Structured design techniques and methodologies
• Yourdon/Constantine, Jackson, Warnier-Orr
• Structured analysis
• DeMarco, Gane/Sarson, SADT
• Automated techniques
• HOS, axiomatic verification, automated data
  modeling, non-procedural languages, activity
  diagrams
• Advanced and modern techniques
• code restructuring
• XP, Modular programming, Mega programming, etc.

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Structured programming techniques

• UML
• General concepts
• Structural Modelling
• Class, Object, Component and Deployment Diagrams
• Behavioural Modelling
• Use Case, Sequence, Collaboration ad Activity
  Diagrams
• Unified Software Development Process
• UML and Business modelling
• structured versus object-oriented techniques
• UML tools

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Platforms, technologies and databases

• Platforms
• Windows, Unix
• Technologies
• HTML/ASP, XML/XSL, DAO/ADO, COM/DCOM, SOAP, etc.
• Databases
• MS SQL Server
• Informix-RDBMS
• MS Access

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Languages and tools

• Languages
• C/C, Visual Basic ? C, VB.NET
• HTML, ASP/ASP.NET, VB script, Java script
• Java
• Informix-4GL
• ZIM, Cobol, Fortran, etc.
• Tools
• MS Visual Studio and Visual Studio.NET
• MS Access
• CA ERwin Suite
• other

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Student seminars

• Tools
• CA AdvantagePLEX (former CoolPLEX)
• CA AdvantageGEN (former CoolGEN)
• MS tools
• Magic
• Servers
• CA Clever Path and Enterprise Content Manager
• CA Process Continuum and Advisor
• MS Share Point Portal Server
• MS Content Management Server
• MS Commerce Server
• MS Exchange Server
• MS Biztalk Server

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Graduation theses

• Tools
• Visual code editor
• Source code analyzer
• Report generator
• Database structure editor and simple form
  generator
• Test data generator
• Automated logger and monitor
• Project tracking system
• Bug tracking and change management system
• Applications
• Headhunter
• Document manager
• Bibliographical database
• Accounting software
• and many more

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Masters theses

• Belief-consistent multilevel secure relational
  data model implementation
• Application generator based on parameterized
  templates
• Evaluation of procedures and tools for
  integration of heterogonous databases
• Data warehousing for enhanced business insight
• Warehousing of stocks data in manufacturing
• Infrastructure for development of distributed
  client-server systems
• Development of paradigms and models for
  interactive environments
• Intelligent interface for entering of medical
  data
• Analysis of information system developments by
  using high level programming tools

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Doctoral theses

• Management of software development and quality
  assurance after the principles applied in
  manufacturing
• Information system risk and quality check

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Contacts

• http//www.zpm.fer.hr/zpmr.htm

Professor Damir Kalpic Assistant Professor Krešimir Fertalj
damir.kalpic_at_fer.hr kresimir.fertalj_at_fer.hr
Tel [phone] Tel [phone]

Fax [phone] Computer Science
Group Department of Applied Mathematics Faculty
of Electrical Engineering and Computing Unska
3 HR-10000 Zagreb Croatia