Collaborative Research: CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: IT Quadra-S, Information Technology Workforce Training Initiative for Spectator Sports Safety and Security

南密西西比大学（University of Southern Mississippi）与奥本大学（Auburn University）合作的这个项目为学生提供了有关观赏性体育安全和安全网络基础设施的实际信息技术培训和教育。这项资助的活动还使体育安全专业人员能够使用定制的工具。这包括：1)为观众体育安全和安保网络基础设施开发一套独一无二的培训资源，包括统一平台、定制课程和培训材料；2)通过演习（包括疏散演习），培训学生和体育安全专业人员使用开发的系统模块和工具。本项目将开发的培训资源将采用独特的资讯技术，以满足观众体育活动的安全和保安要求。国家观众安全和保障中心也通过密西西比州国土安全办公室和密西西比州紧急事务管理局的资助，与这些机构合作开展这个项目。这一探索性项目还吸引了来自一所大专院校和两所社区学院的学生和教师。智力价值：项目的见解、经验和结论将打开并促进信息技术与体育安全和安保管理之间的跨学科领域。该项目的成果将为这一新学科的进一步研究和教育工作以及资源开发提供基础。更广泛的影响：学生参与培训资源的开发将培养他们在观赏性体育安全和安保网络基础设施方面的先进科学和工程技能，这些技能可以用于未来的高级研究、工程和系统管理。定制的课程和材料是第一次致力于培训一种特殊类型的劳动力，需要信息技术和观众体育安全管理之间的跨学科知识。这项工作将在该项目结束后继续进行，并有助于目前正在积极准备的新集中区域。进一步说，体育安全管理将直接受益于这项工作。通过使用先进技术和拥有使用这些技术的知识、技能和经验的工作人员，数百万观众将得到更好的保护。此外，该项目的所有资源将作为开源传播，以产生广泛影响。未被充分代表的群体：pi使用积极主动的策略来招募和保留该领域未被充分代表的学生。2009年，全美11%的非裔美国计算机科学博士毕业于奥本大学。在南密西西比大学（University of Southern Mississippi）， 2009年秋季的本科生中有近28%是非裔美国人。pi致力于继续吸引和指导来自代表性不足群体的学生参加该项目。

This project at the University of Southern Mississippi in collaboration with Auburn University is providing students with hands-on information technology training and education in spectator sports safety and security cyberinfrastructure. The funded activity also prepares sports security professionals to use customized tools. This consists of 1) development of a set of first-of-its-kind training resources for spectator sports safety and security cyberinfrastructure including aunifed platform, a customized curriculum, and training material and 2) summer programs to train students and sports security professionals on the developed system modules and tools through exercises - including an evacuation drill. The training resources to be developed in this project will accommodate unique information technologies to meet spectator sports safety and security requirements. The National Center for Spectator Safety and Security is also working with the institutions on this project through funding from the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. This exploratory project also engages students and faculty from partnering one junior college and two community colleges.Intellectual Merit: The project insights, experiences, and conclusions will open and foster an interdisciplinary field between information technology and sports safety and security management. The outcomes from this project will provide a foundation for further research and education efforts, and resource development in this new discipline.Broader Impacts: The engagement of students in the development of the training resources will cultivate their advanced scientific and engineering skills in spectator sports safety and security cyberinfrastructure that can be carried forward for future advanced research, engineering and administration of systems. The customized curriculum and material is the first endeavor dedicated to the training of a special type of workforce requiring interdisciplinary knowledge between information technology and spectator sports security management. This work will continue after this project and contribute to a new concentration area currently in active preparation. Further, sports security management will directly benefit from this work. Millions of spectators will be better protected through the use of advanced technologies and by a workforce with the knowledge, skills and experience in the use of those technologies. In addition, all the resources from this project will be disseminated as open source for broad impact.Underrepresented Groups: The PIs use proactive strategies to recruit and retention of underrepresented students in this domain. In 2009, 11% of the African American Ph.D. graduates in Computer Science nationwide were produced from Auburn University. At the University of Southern Mississippi, nearly 28% of the undergraduate student population for fall 2009 was African-American. The PIs are committed to continuing to attract and mentor students from underrepresented groups to this project.