Dr Andrew Crossan
About
Biography
Andrew is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He completed his BSc (hons) in Computer Science and PhD at the University of Glasgow. His PhD research was in the area of Virtual Reality training tools to support medical training. He has worked in a researcher in Glasgow and the Hamilton Institute NUI Maynooth in Ireland. His teaching interests lie in Web Develoment, Cloud Computing and Software Engineering. He is teaches on the Undergraduate Computer Science and Data Science Masters programmes.
The full range of Computer Science programmes at Surrey can be found below. The progammes have a firm focus on key industry skills and technologies with regular input for our Industrial Advisory Board to ensure that the programmes are kept up to date
Teaching
My teaching within the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering spans a range of different topics and levels. I teach Cloud Computing to our masters levels students where I teach our students to build flexible and scalable cloud native systems using both AWS and Google Cloud. There is a focus on using the resources of the cloud to store, process and analyse large data sets and display results back to the user. Cloud development is an important skill that is currently in high demand in industry. This module will alow students to apply their skills to and be confident using different cloud environments.
I am module lead for our second year undergraduate group project module "Collaborative Project Using Web Applications". In first semester students learn the underlying theory important for developing web applications and gain practical skills building web apps using Python with the Django web framework. The second half of this module asks students to apply these skills with a group to build and document the development of a large scale web application with a real industrial focus. This gives students to be creative and really show off the skills that they have learned. Alongside the module we run the Green Tech Jam where students get a chance to demo their final application to industry judges with the top project teams receiving prizes provided by the ESBF (esbf.org.uk).