SFS Scholarships for Information Assurance Students

该项目扩大了爱荷华州立大学（ISU） SFS网络军团计划的能力。ISU被国家安全局指定为信息保障教育学术卓越特许中心，通过支持校园内新的信息保障中心，进一步认识到信息保障（IA）领域的重要性。通过这个项目，ISU继续参与NSF的SFS计划。来自电子与计算机工程、计算机科学、政治科学、数学、教育领导、后勤、作战和管理信息系统等系的教育和研究人员领导着跨学科的网络军团项目。30名学生，包括两组5名本科生和10名研究生，与教师密切合作，接受IA培训，进行研究，并发展成为领导者和团队成员。本科学生在大三和大四期间完成IA研究生课程作为选修课，并参与国际苏联IA中心的研究，从而增加他们的学士学位所需的技能，为IA专业做出更有意义的贡献。研究生正在完成IA课程，并通过更深入的研究工作和与主要教授的接触，培养更深入的解决问题的能力。所有学生都将与各自的同学一起参加为期两年的ISU SFS项目独特而关键的组成部分：领导力，团队合作和专业发展。通过扩大的SFS项目，ISU正在制定一项全年招聘计划，特别强调增加来自代表性不足群体的参与者数量，进一步加强选拔过程，支持强大的学生群体体验，增加对学生的指导范围，更系统地让所有学生参与IA研究，并采用其他衡量项目成功的措施。知识价值。ISU SFS计划为联邦工作人员提供新的专业人员，他们有能力以创新的方式解决保护关键联邦信息基础设施的问题，准备专业人员成为有价值的团队成员和领导者，通过加强几个ISU研究项目来解决包括入侵检测系统，网络安全，数据隐私和安全，可靠的系统和网络在内的重要问题，为IA知识库做出贡献。安全政策和商业，以及提高内务部安全教育项目的教育能力。更广泛的影响。ISU SFS计划继续通过为联邦劳动力提供越来越多的IA专业人员来造福社会，这些专业人员在他们的技术领域应用最佳实践，并从事终身技术，智力，领导力和公民发展。让学生参与研究项目，让他们在整个Cyber Corps经历中沉浸在领导力、团队合作和专业发展中，为学生提供了在离开大学之前通过IA所需的服务学习项目对社会产生更广泛影响的机会。

This project is expanding the capacity of the Iowa State University (ISU) SFS Cyber Corps program. Designated by the National Security Agency as a charter Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, ISU further recognizes the importance of the information assurance (IA) field by supporting a new IA Center on campus. Through this project, ISU is continuing participation in the NSF SFS program. IA education and research faculty from the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Political Science, Mathematics, Educational Leadership, and Logistics, Operations, and Management Information Systems are leading the interdisciplinary Cyber Corps program. Thirty students, comprising two cohort groups of five undergraduate and 10 graduate students, are working closely with the faculty to receive IA training, conduct research, and develop as leaders and team members. Undergraduate students are completing IA graduate courses as electives during the junior and senior years and are involved in the research of the ISU IA Center, thus augmenting their B.S. degrees with the skills needed to contribute more meaningfully to the IA profession. Graduate students are completing IA courses and developing deeper problem-solving skills through more in-depth research efforts and involvement with major professors. All students are participating with their respective cohorts for two full years in the unique and critical component of the ISU SFS program: leadership, teamwork and professionalism development.Through the expanded SFS program, ISU is developing a year-round recruiting plan with special emphasis on increasing the number of participants from underrepresented groups, further enhancing the selection process, supporting the strong student cohort experience, increasing the scope of mentoring for students, more systematically involving all students in IA research, and employing additional measures of program success. Intellectual Merit. The ISU SFS program is providing the federal workforce with new professionals who have the capacity to address the problems of securing critical federal information infrastructure in innovative ways, preparing professionals to serve as worthy team members and leaders, contributing to the IA knowledge base by enhancing several ISU research programs that address important issues including intrusion detection systems, network security, data privacy and security, dependable systems and networks, and security policy and commerce, and enhancing educational capacity of the IA security education programs.Broader Impact. The ISU SFS program is continuing to benefit society by providing the federal workforce with increased numbers of IA professionals who apply best practices in their technical fields and who engage in lifelong technical, intellectual, leadership and citizenship development. Involving students in research projects and immersing them in leadership, teamwork and professional development throughout their entire Cyber Corps experience is providing the opportunity for students to have a broader impact on society before leaving the university through required IA service-learning projects.