Longitudinal Injection of Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Awareness into Engineering Curricula

即将到来的智能技术，如智能城市，物联网和无人机，都是当前的技术，需要网络安全意识的多学科工程专家来确保这些设备的安全性。随着设备变得智能和互连以提供更好的服务，它们也成为网络攻击的更大目标。确保智能技术的正确运行需要训练有素、积极主动的工程师，他们了解核心工程原理、与其设计相关的网络安全风险以及来自其他相互关联学科的风险。这个合作项目的目标是通过跨工程学科的合作，促进整体方法，开发和采用跨学科的网络安全课程。通过吸引来自不同工程学科的学者，该项目探索了让学生参与跨学科网络安全意识工程教育的独特方法。里诺的内华达州大学开发的知识单元将传播到全国的工程学院，以维持安全工程的长期研究和教育伙伴关系。网络安全研究及其应用与工程的所有领域都高度相关，包括计算机、电气、机械、土木和生物医学学科。研究人员将开发知识单元，向多个工程学科的本科生介绍和加强网络安全的重要性，重点是智能城市，物联网和无人机。这三个广泛的技术领域需要多个工程领域的专业知识，并从宏观层面的观点到微观层面的观点，其中每个部门都包含下一个部门。网络安全意识将被有机地注入到即将到来的工程新生的靴子营地，一个关于工程入门的新生体验课程，以及特定学科的技术工程课程中，通常在大三和大四期间。该项目将汇集工程学院，开发可以在各个工程学科中无缝采用的知识单元。将通过实践活动加强教学，以创造一个互动的网络安全教育环境并刺激学习。将开发一个“互联城市”的竞技场，包括各种网络物理系统，这些系统被集成用于实际的网络安全参与。通过跨学科的教育模块和通过该项目开发的实践活动，学生将获得对不同工程学科之间的相互作用的坚实把握，并获得工程智能技术所需的关键知识和技能，这些技术能够抵御网络攻击。

Upcoming smart technologies such as Smart Cities, Internet of Things, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles digitize current technologies and require cybersecurity-aware multi-disciplinary engineering experts to ensure the security of such devices. As devices become smart and interconnected to provide improved services, they also become greater targets of cyber-attacks. Ensuring proper operation of smart technologies requires well-trained, proactive engineers, who are knowledgeable on core engineering principles, cybersecurity risks associated with their designs, and risks from other interconnected disciplines. The goal of this collaborative project is to develop and adopt interdisciplinary cybersecurity curriculum by fostering a holistic approach through collaboration across engineering disciplines. By bringing scholars from different engineering disciplines, this project explores unique ways to engage students in interdisciplinary cybersecurity-aware engineering education. The knowledge units developed at the University of Nevada, Reno will be disseminated to engineering colleges nationwide to sustain long-term research and education partnerships in secure engineering.Cybersecurity research and its applications are highly relevant in all areas of engineering, including computer, electrical, mechanical, civil and biomedical disciplines. Researchers will develop knowledge units to introduce and reinforce the importance of cybersecurity to undergraduate students across several engineering disciplines with a focus on Smart Cities, Internet of Things, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. These three broad technological areas require expertise in multiple engineering fields and go from macro-level view to micro-level view where each of the sectors encompass the next one. Cybersecurity awareness will be injected organically in a boot camp for incoming engineering freshman, a freshman experience course on Introduction to Engineering, and discipline-specific technical engineering courses, typically during junior and senior years. The project will bring together engineering faculty to develop knowledge units that can be seamlessly adopted across various engineering disciplines. Instruction will be augmented with hands-on activities to create an interactive cybersecurity education environment and stimulate learning. A "Connected Cities" playing arena will be developed, comprising various cyber physical systems that are integrated for hands-on cybersecurity engagement. Through interdisciplinary educational modules and hands-on activities developed via this project, students will obtain a solid grasp on the interplay between different engineering disciplines and obtain critical knowledge and skills needed to engineer smart technologies that are resilient to cyber-attacks.