SFS: Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems

工业控制系统（ICS）是关键基础设施系统中的常见组件，如智能电网，智能建筑，石油和天然气管道，化学加工厂和配水系统。确保这些系统的安全，需要具备多个工程学科专业知识的熟练劳动力。该项目将开发新的跨学科课程和模块，并将其纳入现有课程，以加强网络安全教育。课程的制定将由一个由工业专家组成的咨询委员会指导。这些课程的毕业生将具备保护和维护这些关键系统所需的技能。该项目的目标是(i)培训未来的工程师/科学家来设计、建造和维护安全的工业控制系统；（ii）开发有关安全问题的新课程；（ii）从代表性不足的群体中招募学生；（iii）让本科生/研究生参与安全工业控制系统的设计/论文项目；（iv）通过网络课程传播传播结果。以及期刊出版物，以及(v)面向社区大学和高中学生的推广活动。形成性评估将不断改进课程的课程设置，在赠款期结束时进行总结性评估，评估项目的目标和目的达到的程度。通过评估过程收集的数据将用于改进计划交付以及评估项目的成功。

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are common components in critical infrastructure systems such as the smart power grid, smart buildings, oil and gas pipelines, chemical processing plants and water distribution systems. Securing these systems requires a skilled and knowledgeable workforce with expertise in several engineering disciplines. This project will develop new interdisciplinary courses, and modules that will be incorporated into existing courses, to enhance cybersecurity education. The development of the curriculum will be guided by an advisory board consisting of industrial experts. The graduates from these programs will possess the skills required to secure and maintain these critical systems. The goals of the project are (i) the training of future engineers/scientists to design, build and maintain secure industrial control systems, (ii) the development of new courses on security issues, (ii) the recruitment of students from underrepresented groups, (iii) the involvement of undergraduate/ graduate students for conducting design/ thesis projects in the secure industrial control systems ,(iv) the dissemination of the results through, web-based curriculum dissemination, and journal publications, and (v) outreach activities to community college and high school students. Formative evaluations will continuously improve the curricula of the courses and a summative evaluation at the end of the grant period will evaluate the level to which the goals and objectives of the project have been met. The data collected through the evaluation process will be use to improve program delivery as well as evaluate project success.