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Information Technology and Business Information Science

at the Széchenyi István University (Hungary, Europe)

 

Department for Information Science

H-9026 Győr, Egyetem tér 1  Hungary

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Tel.: +36-96-613-581; Fax: +36-96-613-543

The Department for Information Technology is an organizational part of the Faculty for Information Science and Electric Engineering. This department is responsible for the research and training activity for Information Technology not only on the special IT-courses but on all the other courses as well.

Education and Scientific Research

International Relations; Common American-Hungarian Students' Project

Laboratories

HISTORY and MISSION

The education of the Information Technology (IT-knowledge) is not new at the Széchenyi István College, because the roots traced back to the foundation period of the College. The College founded in 1968 has got the name College of Transport and Telecommunication. In the early 70th there was already going on an intensive training in the field of computing and information sciences. Later, at the beginning of 80th the application of the computers became more and more important and Győr and its surroundings have played a very important industrial role in Hungary. It was a great problem, that there was not any engineering training neither in Győr nor in the industrial-developed northern part of Hungary, in the so-called Pannon Region, where a great number of specialists in IT was needed. In that time the management of the College has decided to start a special course in IT in order to meet the business needs and called a project into existence to develop a curriculum for the introducing a new IT training. The project members (A. Jámbor, J. Kovács, M. Raffai and M. Szörényi) started to work on and prepared the document of the IT-course, which was accredited and introduced with 35 students in 1990i. A new IT-Department was needed to be responsible for teaching the software and information engeneering. It is remarkable that the number of the students shows a very dynamic progressive growth: 35 students  in the Academic Year of 1990/91, but after that the number of students have been  continuosly growing as follows: 104, 144, 232, 254, 315, 250, 300, 450.

In the last decade of the 20th Century we realized a significant, dynamic development process at the College, which is showed not only in the increasing number of the students, but also in introducing new courses. The full-time students studying in IT-course get their BSc degree after 3 academic years. After studying basic engineering subjects the students may choose special modules from the 3rd semester on as follows: System Analyst and Design, Programming, Application in various business fields (Transport, Medical, Postal knowledge). The degrees are awarded after writing a thesis and passing the state examination. From 1995 on, there is a special IT-module for the economist students as well, they can learn all the IT-knowledge necessary in the business life. In 1996 the IT-Department managers  performed a significant development in the labs. The old 386 computers were replaced by Pentium Processor computers, so the students got to know and aquire the software and usage the services of the Internet. Beyond the new lab the students can practice and use the Internet in nother 6 labs equiped with 250 computers altogether.

Nowadays a very quick social-economic metamorphosis goes on. In this globalization era the students need the most up-to-date knowledge, which is a serious challenge for the teachers. The professors and the associates of the Information Technology Department need to keep up with the progressive changes, so the students have to learn the newest technologies, methods, modeling tools and programming languages.

We have to take into consideration, that our graduates finish their studies already in the 21st Century so we are responsible to give them the capability of long-life learning . The Academic Staff of the Department is ready to do the best for the training on the highest level, so they are working now on the new academic reform based on the Bologna Declaration.

New courses will be introduced, a BSC-course in the field of Computer Engineering, and one of in the field of Business Information Applications. This new courses results European Eunion wide acceptable diploma, which makes possible to free change into institutes and also in workplaces. 

 

Activity in Education and Scientific Research

1. Education, training

The professors and assistants of the IT-Department are responsible for the development and actualisation of the study plans, educational methods, they develop and introduce new technologies . They write books and prepare education material. The educated subjects are as follows:

  • computer architecture
  • computer network architecture and technologies
  • operation systems
  • information systems, information science
  • information engineering methodologies
  • information management
  • object-oriented analysis and design
  • unified modeling language (UML) and 
  • unified methodology (RUP)
  • history of computer and information science
  • management information systems
  • mathematical methods for decision making
  • decision support systems
  • computer aided engineering,  CASE tools
  • network-communication (in English and also in Hungarian is available)
  • intelligent business solutions
  • organization development methodologies, business process re-engineering (BPR)
  • business continuity planning, with special reference to the computer aided systems (BCP)

There are three different specialties belonging to the IT Department:

  1. information system engineering
  2. effective business solutions and
  3. engineering on graphical design.

Besides the educational tasks on the course for IT specialities the collegues are teaching information technology for all of the 5 500 Students at the College and they are taking part in the teleteaching system. The professors and the assistants are working continuously on the training material, they are preparing new slides for the presentations, teaching material for learning, tests for controlling the learned knowledge and they are writing books and workpapers as follows:

  • Information Engineering
  • Information Engineering - Exercise-Books - Author: Mária Raffai
    • IRT1 - Information Management - Methods and Technics
    • IRT2 - Information Modelling - Conceptual Aspect (PIM model)
    • IRT3 - Information Modelling - Physical Aspect (PSM model)
    • IRT4 - Netscape Navigator on the Internet
    • IRT5 - Problem Definition and Analysis - Technical Approach
  • Computer Architectures - Author: Attila Jámbor
  • Decision Making - Case Studies - Authors: Z.Ferenczi-Z.Nagy-M.Raffai
  • Operation Systems - Basic Knowledge - Author: Jozsef Sziray - Balazs Benyo
  • Engineering with AutoCAD - Basic Knowledge - Author: Tibor Varga
  • AutoCAD - 3D Studio in Practice Author: Tibor Varga
  • The History of Computing - Author: Mária Raffai
  • Information Science and Practice in Hungary - Almanach
  • BPR: Re-engineering Methodology - Methods and Factors - Author: Mária Raffai
  • RTeBP Re-engineering Methodology Adapted for the Central and Eastern European Business cultures - Author: Mária Raffai
  • BCP: Business Continuity Planning - Author: Mária Raffai
  • Object-technology (Mária Raffai)

2. Scientific Research

The collegues are working on interdisciplinar themes in connection with their specialty and education work. The most interesting research fields are as follows:

  • development new educational and training methodologies, and analysis their benefits
  • survey among the absolvated and already working students, analysing their opinions
  • computer aided simulation systems in application
  • object-oriented analysis and design methods
  • intorduction of the software engineering standard, the UML into the education
  • the challenge of the information society
  • development of logistic systems
  • the importance and the application of the EDI

In the frame of the scientific research the collegues are working in cooperation with Hungarian and international partners. The results are presented on scientific conferences and published on different forms (books, Web sites, journals etc.)
 
  3. Student's Scientific Research

There are some possibilities and themes, on wich the professors and students can work together. There are conferences in every year, when the students present their results. At our College the students with specialty on Information Technology are forced to use their knowledge to develop new systems and techniques, and after about a year's work they could reach excellent results on the conferences. The teachers, especially Márai Raffai, János Kovács and Tamás Hartványi are dealing with the best students, which means yearly a number of 20-25 persons. The results are proved by the awards, which are reached by the students in every conferences.

Sorry, but the information concerning to the student's scientific activity is available only in Hungarian!

4. International Relations

    OHIO University CIBED (Center for International Business Education and Development, College of Business)

    University Basel - Switzerland 
    Technische Hochschule - Kempten, Germany 
    Stockholm University - Sweeden 
    Noordelijke Hoogeschool Leeuwarden - Holland 
    International Student Courses

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