SFS: Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems

工业控制系统（ICS）是智能电网、智能建筑、石油和天然气管道、化学加工厂和供水系统等关键基础设施系统中的常见组件。 确保这些系统的安全需要一个熟练和知识渊博的劳动力，在几个工程学科的专业知识。 该项目将开发新的跨学科课程和将纳入现有课程的模块，以加强网络安全教育。 课程的编制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：㈠培训未来的工程师/科学家，以设计、建造和维护安全的工业控制系统，㈡开发关于安全问题的新课程，㈡从代表性不足的群体中招募学生，㈢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）透过网上课程及期刊出版物，传播研究结果;及（v）向社区学院及高中学生进行外展活动。 形成性评价将不断改进课程设置，赠款期结束时的总结性评价将评价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善项目交付以及评估项目成功与否。

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.