Collaborative Project: Carolina Cyber Defense Scholarship

位于夏洛特的北卡罗来纳州大学（UNCC）和北卡罗来纳州农业技术州立大学（NCAT）提议继续并扩大由CyberCorps（R）服务奖学金（SFS）计划支持的卡罗莱纳网络卫士奖学金计划。该项目将培养高素质的网络安全专业人员进入政府工作队伍，并将通过培养训练有素的网络安全专业人员，对联邦工作队伍的信息保证和取证能力产生直接影响。该项目将通过早期辅导和咨询活动，支持福赛斯技术社区学院的社区学院学生，然后再通过既定的2+2途径转到联合国赔偿委员会或NCAT。此外，拟议的合作将有助于NCAT获得研究的CAE-R称号，并有助于在博士水平上毕业的代表性不足的网络安全研究人员。该项目涉及网络安全研究和实践活动的学生，由经验丰富的教师组成的大型团队指导，有16个当前的研究计划，并从政府机构和私营企业积极资助。核心专业知识集中在安全软件开发;安全网络管理;网络情报和分析;以及云安全。NSF支持的行业/大学配置分析和自动化合作研究中心提供了一个丰富的环境，学生可以在这里解决尖端的网络安全挑战，并与课堂教育相结合，这产生了许多创新，包括授予夏洛特SFS学生团队的美国专利。该计划旨在为学生提供网络安全的坚实基础，接触现实世界的网络安全问题，并通过比赛实践经验，以便毕业后他们做好充分准备，以应对捍卫国家关键基础设施的挑战。NCAT正在实施一种新的面向过程的指导探究学习（POGIL）方法来教授网络安全。POGIL基于引导探究的过程-探索，概念发明和应用的学习周期，基于精心设计的材料，学生用来指导他们构建网络安全知识。

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT) propose to continue and expand the Carolina Cyber Defender Scholarship Program supported by the CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. The project will prepare highly-qualified cybersecurity professionals for entry into the government workforce, and will have an immediate impact on the information assurance and forensics capabilities of the federal workforce by developing well-trained cybersecurity professionals. The project will support community college students at the Forsyth Tech Community College (FTCC) through early mentoring and advising activities before their transfer to either UNCC or NCAT through established 2+2 pathways. Further, the proposed collaboration will help NCAT obtain CAE-R designation in research and contribute towards graduating under-represented cybersecurity researchers at the PhD level.This project involves students in cybersecurity research and hands-on activities guided by a large team of experienced faculty, with sixteen current research initiatives and active funding from government agencies and private corporations. The core expertise is focused on Secure Software Development; Secure Network Administration; Cyber intelligence and Analytics; and Cloud Security. The NSF supported Industry/University Collaborative Research Center on Configuration Analytics and Automation provides a rich environment where students work on cutting-edge cybersecurity challenges and integrate with classroom education, which has generated many innovations, including a U.S. patent awarded to a team of SFS students at UNC Charlotte. The proposed program is designed to provide students with a solid foundation of cybersecurity, exposure to real-world cybersecurity problems, and hands-on experiences through competitions so that upon graduation they are well-prepared to meet the challenges of defending the nation's critical infrastructure. NCAT is implementing a new Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) approach for teaching cybersecurity. POGIL is based on the process of guided inquiry - a learning cycle of exploration, concept invention and application based on carefully designed materials that students use to guide them to construct cybersecurity knowledge.