PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING MODELING AND SIMULATION IN A DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

In this paper, we share our approach to teaching conceptual model development and simulation modeling at a Department of Computer Science in the UK. We explore the challenges and opportunities we face teaching static and dynamic modeling to the 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students. While our Business Computing students tend not to be as technically savvy as our Computer Science students, which at times limits the technical complexity of what we can cover in our courses, we designed the Business Analysis and Process Modeling course as a tool to empower students to analyze and discuss business problems in-depth. The paper reports on the design and findings of the undergraduate teaching of modeling and simulation content. We finalize the paper by providing some concluding remarks and future directions.