Curriculum Development and Research in Information Assurance

该项目加强了亚特兰大大学中心目前的信息保障课程，将其从高级课程扩展到系统地纳入本科教学大纲。该项目在中心学校的计算机科学本科课程中广泛地整合了信息保障。此外，它加强了专门的电气工程课程，包括信息保障的概念，并建立了无线安全的研究组成部分。这项研究将把教师在课程开发方面的努力与该领域的最新进展联系起来，并为本科生提供早期的研究经验。虽然联盟中的每一所学校目前都没有资源来发展全面的信息保障教育和研究，但作为共享资源的合作机构，这可以在很大程度上完成。这种能力建设的总体目标是让计算机科学和电气工程专业的学生以一种非常基本的方式接触到软件和通信技术的安全后果。这一努力的更广泛影响将包括课程材料的开发，提供一种协调一致的方法，将人工智能概念整合到课程中，并增加学生的渠道，特别是非洲裔美国人，他们将在人工智能和STEM领域进行研究生学习。

This project enhances the current Information Assurance curriculum at the Atlanta University Center, extending it from upper-level courses to be systematically incorporated into the undergraduate syllabus. This project incorporates Information Assurance pervasively throughout the undergraduate Computer Science programs at the Center schools. Further, it enhances specialized Electrical Engineering courses to include concepts of Information Assurance, and builds a research component in Wireless Security. This research will tie faculty efforts in curriculum development to current advances in the field and provide early research experiences to undergraduate students. While each individual school in the consortium does not currently have the resources to develop full-fledged education and research in Information Assurance, as collaborative institutions sharing resources, this can be substantially accomplished. The overall objective of this capacity building is for students in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering to be exposed in a very fundamental fashion to the security ramifications of software and communications technologies. The broader impacts of this effort will include the development of curriculum material that provide a model of a concerted approach to integrating IA concepts into the curriculum, and increasing the pipeline of students, especially African Americans, who will pursue graduate studies in IA in particular and STEM fields in general.