REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program at the Information Trust Institute

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。我们社会的安全和经济福祉依赖于一个庞大的网络信息系统复合体的可信性，这些系统提供通信、计算和控制来管理我们的国家-S关键基础设施系统(电力、交通、航空航天、电信、医疗保健、应急响应、银行、金融和电子商务)。这些关键基础设施系统的运营面临巨大威胁，不仅来自恶意攻击，而且来自它们作为极其复杂、相互关联和相互依赖的系统的性质。拟议的夏季REU站点位于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的信息信任研究所(ITI)，旨在提高有关分析和改进联网信息系统的安全性、可靠性和安全性的技术知识。智力优势：该网站拥有广泛的计算资源，并包括一个高级调查团队，他们以前有过与本科生在研究项目中合作的经验。这一努力是基于之前两个非常成功的夏季本科生研究实习项目，这两个项目导致了共同撰写的出版物。研究课题及时，解决了保护网络信息系统这一重要的计算研究问题。一群不同的本科生正在学习如何进行研究，并准备攻读研究生课程。研究团队包括女性和代表性不足的少数族裔。在这个项目中，国内学生通过他们的研究项目和伦理课程与其他得到支持的国际学生进行互动。研究生导师正在学习指导技能。正在评估暑期计划、伦理课程和指导经验的教育效果。评估结果将在关于计算机科学教育和工程教育的会议上公布。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The security and economic well-being of our society rests upon the trustworthiness of a vast complex of networked information systems that provide communications, computing, and control to manage our nation?s critical infrastructure systems (power, transportation, aerospace, telecommunications, health care, emergency response, banking, finance, and e-commerce). These critical infrastructure systems face enormous threats to their operation not only from malicious attacks, but also from their very nature as extremely complex, interconnected, and interdependent systems. The proposed summer REU site, at the Information Trust Institute (ITI), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advances knowledge about techniques for analyzing and improving the security, reliability, and safety of networked information systems. Intellectual Merit: This site has extensive computing resources and includes a team of senior investigators who have previous experience in collaborating with undergraduates in research projects. This effort is based upon projects in two prior highly successful summer undergraduate research internship programs that have resulted in co-authored publications. The topics of research are timely and address the important computing research problem of protecting networked information systems.Broader Impacts. A diverse group of undergraduates is learning how to conduct research and is becoming prepared to pursue graduate studies. The research teams include women and underrepresented minorities. Domestic students in this program are interacting with otherwise supported international students through their research projects and through ethics sessions. Graduate student mentors are learning mentoring skills. The educational effectiveness of the summer program, the ethics sessions, and the mentoring experiences are being assessed. The results of the assessments will be presented at conferences on computer science education and on engineering education.