Scholarship Track: Scholarships for Service at WPI

该项目寻求在伍斯特理工学院(WPI)建立一个新的CyberCorps®：服务奖学金(SFS)计划，为进入联邦、州、地方和部落政府工作队伍培养高素质的网络安全专业人员。拟议的CyberCorps®：SFS计划包括(A)课程作业，包括技术课程、商业课程和至少一门关于网络安全的人性化方面的课程；(B)参与研究项目的机会；以及(C)每月举办一系列研讨会，讨论在政府网络安全领域工作？WPI还与附近的两个联邦实验室MITRE和林肯实验室进行了现有的合作，其在机器人学、交互媒体和游戏设计、数据科学和学习科学方面的跨学科研究生课程为学者提供了将网络安全研究与其他新兴计算领域联系起来的机会。WPI被指定为国家信息保障研究学术卓越中心，拥有四个系的十几名教职员工，他们拥有与网络安全相关的积极研究项目。由两名项目总监、一名项目经理和几名安全教员组成的团队将管理该项目的运营和评估。该项目对学者和项目运作都有明确的目标，以及评估实现这些目标的进展情况的衡量标准。网络军团的学生将学习一门以安全为主题的课程，重点关注人类行为、隐私和政策，而不仅仅是网络安全的纯技术方面。所有SFS奖学金奖项都会对网络安全队伍的发展产生更广泛的影响。计划中的招聘活动将吸引数百名学生，并可能激励更多的学生至少在一定程度上接受网络安全教育。拟举办的系列研讨会将向公众开放。招募计划包括参加WPI面向高中生的既定外联计划，让学生参与STEM的暑期住宿计划，以及以NASA机器人挑战为中心的一年一度的WPI科技节。该项目有一个强有力的计划来招收女性和其他代表性不足的学生。

This project seeks to establish a new CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program at the Worcester Polytechnic (WPI) Institute to prepare highly-qualified Cybersecurity professionals for entry into the federal, state, local, and tribal government workforce.The proposed CyberCorps®: SFS program features (a) coursework that includes technical courses, a business course, and at least one course on human-facing aspects of cybersecurity; (b) opportunities to participate in research projects; and (c) a monthly seminar series on ??Working in Cybersecurity for the Government??. WPI also has existing collaborations with two nearby federal labs, MITRE and Lincoln Labs, and its interdisciplinary graduate programs in Robotics, Interactive Media and Game Design, Data Science, and Learning Sciences offer scholars the opportunity to connect cybersecurity studies with other emerging computational fields. WPI is designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research with a dozen faculty across four departments with active research programs related to cybersecurity. A team consisting of two Program Directors, a program manager, and several security faculty will manage the operations and assessment of the program. The project has clear objectives for both scholars and project operations, along with the measurements that will assess progress towards the objectives. CyberCorps students will take a security-themed course with a significant focus on human behavior, privacy and policy extending beyond purely technical aspects of cybersecurity.All SFS-Scholarship awards share broader impacts on cybersecurity workforce development.The planned recruiting activities will engage hundreds of students and may motivate more students in pursuing at least some level of cybersecurity education. The proposed seminar series will be open to the public. The recruiting plans include participating in established WPI outreach programs to high-school students, summer residential programs to engage students in STEM and an annual WPI science and technology festival that centers on a NASA robotics challenge. The project has a strong plan for recruiting women and other under-represented students.