The TAS Syllabus Lab is a collaborative project between academic institutions, industry partners and professional organisations to facilitate upskilling and reskilling within key industries. Its aims are:
– To understand sector-specific requirements that are directly relevant to industry.
– To identify core topics and activities that reflect the multidisciplinary needs of current and future TAS engineers, designers and researchers.
– To develop and promote research-led and industry-led TAS training resources.
The project will be coordinated by the Syllabus Lab working group, a subgroup of the TAS Skills Committee.
If you’re an academic or industry professional and involved in training, curriculum development and course delivery and interested in joining the Syllabus Lab, please contact Alison Tebbutt, TAS Hub Skills Manager (A.M.Tebbutt@soton.ac.uk ) for further details.
Workshop: All Hands Meeting (September 2021)
This structured workshop reviewed a range of AI-related skills frameworks and to propose new approaches to (i) capability frameworks, (ii) university courses and (iii) training for managers. The discussions were a starting point for shaping the future of TAS-related training aimed at closing the current TAS skills gap.
Workshop: Characterising Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) personas in a TAS project (February 2022)
The workshop aimed to explore Persona creation and Use Case creation, using current TAS research projects as exemplars. This workshop took place as part of the TAS ECR Networking event on 23 Feb.
Paper: IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference 2022 (March 2022)
A conference paper Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS): Engaging TAS experts in curriculum design, authored by Mohammad Naiseh, Caitlin Bentley and Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, was accepted for IEEE Educon 2022. View the pre-print version.
Workshop: 1st Workshop on Methods, Tools and Techniques for TAS Design and Development, EICS 2022 (June 2022)
This EICS 2022 workshop invited interactive systems experts to contribute promising design methods, tools, and techniques – particularly in the area of user/actor and design requirements modelling. The workshop aimed to present cutting-edge modelling techniques, and to test these approaches through discussion, to think about main challenges, refine TAS required skills, and steer the overarching strategy in this new field for the future.
TAS Educational Resources Working Group: call for collaborators (Sept 22 – Mar 23)
The Syllabus Lab is looking for participants to join a Working Group to collect education materials from across the TAS network so these can be shared widely via our website as open education resources. All members of the TAS community are welcome to join. Those with teaching responsibilities, and those who would like to gain experience in education are particularly likely to benefit from participating. We expect the Working Group to gather materials and transform these into educational resources during the autumn/winter of 2022-2023.
To get involved, please get in touch with Caitlin Bentley (Caitlin.bentley@kcl.ac.uk)