Virginia Tech CyberScholars Program

弗吉尼亚理工大学提议创建CyberCorps(R)：服务奖学金(SFS)计划，目标是计算机工程和计算机科学专业进入第三年学习的本科生。该计划提供三年的资金，通过现有的加速本科生/研究生课程完成理学士和理科硕士学位，以及网络安全研究生证书。奖学金对弗吉尼亚理工大学的现有学生和弗吉尼亚社区学院系统(VCCS)内两年制项目的转校生开放，弗吉尼亚理工大学与他们有衔接协议。该课程要求完成18学分的网络安全研究生证书，包括网络/系统基础、安全、网络法，以及网络密码学和网络商业方面的选修课。该项目由休谟国家安全与技术中心管理，使用现有的颁发捐赠国家安全奖学金和奖学金的机构，包括对学生进行监测和指导的专门支持，以及与大多数网络相关机构、国家实验室和FRDC建立个人联系的强大的国家安全职业安置计划。为了完成硕士学位的论文要求，学生们在该大学六个网络相关实验室中的一个进行网络安全研究，其中包括IT安全实验室，该实验室被设计为网络安全的“教学医院”，学生研究项目可以利用生产校园网作为安全研究的试验台。该计划通过激励网络安全学习和创造一条通往联邦就业的途径，在弗吉尼亚理工大学的网络安全教育方面取得了重大进展。休谟中心将与加强工程多样性中心合作，从代表性不足的人群中招收和留住学生。学生的研究生研究成果通过大学图书馆的VTechWorks进行捕捉和传播。课程和学习环境可供K-12和全国范围内访问RAVE网络的大学使用。

Virginia Tech proposes to create the CyberCorps(R): Scholarship for Service (SFS) program targeting undergraduate students entering their third year of study and majoring in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. The program provides three years of funding to complete both a B.S. and M.S. through the existing Accelerated Undergraduate/Graduate program, as well as a graduate certificate in Cybersecurity. Scholarships are open to current students at Virginia Tech and students transferring from two-year programs within the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), with whom Virginia Tech has articulation agreements. The program requires a completion of the 18-credit completion graduate certificate in Cybersecurity including network/systems fundamentals, security, cyber law, and electives in cryptography and business aspects of cyber. The project is managed by the Hume Center for National Security and Technology using an apparatus already in place for awarding endowed national security scholarships and fellowships, including a dedicated support for monitoring and mentoring students, and a robust national security career placement program with personal connections to most cyber-related agencies, national labs, and FFRDCs. To fulfill the thesis requirement of the M.S. degree, students conduct research in cybersecurity in one of the six cyber-related labs at the university, including the IT Security Lab designed as a 'teaching hospital' for network security where student research projects can use the production campus network as a testbed for security research. The program provides a major advancement in cyber security education at Virginia Tech by incentivizing study in cybersecurity and by creating a pathway to federal employment. The Hume Center will work with the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity to recruit and retain students from underrepresented populations. Students' graduate research is captured and disseminated through the University Library's VTechWorks. Curriculum and learning environments are available to K-12 and universities accessing the RAVE network nationwide.