Sessional Lecturer - CSC490H1S - Capstone Design Project - Web-Scale System Design

About the role

This half-course gives students experience solving a substantial problem that may span several areas of Computer Science. Students will define the scope of the problem, develop a solution plan, produce a working implementation, and present their work using written, oral, and (if suitable) video reports. Class time will focus on the project, but may include some lectures. The class will be small and highly interactive. Project themes change each year.

Responsibilities

• Preparing and delivering the lectures in-person on campus as scheduled.
• Handling course administration including: maintaining the course website on Quercus; developing marking schemes/syllabus; planning tutorial content (when applicable); developing course assessments including assignments, projects, quizzes, tests, and final assessments.
• Providing appropriate contact time outside of class to students, through office hours, email, the course website and/or the course bulletin board.
• Preparing the breakdown of hours for TA duties in the course and supervising the TAs.
• Ensuring that tutorials and/or labs are delivered appropriately by the TAs as applicable.
• Managing the grading for the course, which is largely done by the TAs, and carrying out any grading not handled by the TAs.
• Invigilating term tests and the final exam when applicable.
• Managing the grades, including the timely completion and release of grades and feedback to students throughout the term; submitting final course grades (due May 7, 2027).

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or closely related field required.
• Demonstrated expertise in topic area of the course required.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills required.
• Teaching experience at the university level or equivalent industry level required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience teaching undergraduate courses in the field of Computer Science preferred.
• Demonstrated evidence of excellence in teaching preferred.
• Must have professional experience designing, building, testing, and evaluating large-scale software systems.
• Experience with web application architectures, APIs, data storage, caching, distributed systems, message queues ,search, reliability, real-time systems, and offline applications.