Creating a Collaborative and Student Internships to Enhance Education and Career Pathways in Cybersecurity

创建合作实习和学生实习，以加强网络安全方面的教育和职业道路

• 批准号: 1902320
• 负责人: Brady Nielsen
• 金额: $ 21.1万
• 依托单位: Spokane Falls Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1902320&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Collaborative; Student; Internships; Enhance

Business, industry, and government must maintain security of their computers and information systems. To do so, technicians must be well prepared to prevent, detect, and investigate cybersecurity breaches. Because of the growing number and scale of cyber-threats, there is also a growing need for many more technicians who have the necessary cybersecurity knowledge and skills. In Spokane County, Washington, demand for cybersecurity workers is projected to grow four times faster than the countywide average for all occupations over the next seven years. This project will help educate today's college students to meet this demand. The project will create a "Cybersecurity Collaborative" that engages regional information technology employers and leaders from area high schools. With the help of this collaborative, Spokane Falls Community College will align coursework in its relevant programs with the cybersecurity skills needed by employers and will establish a sustainable internship program for students pursuing a cybersecurity career.The project will draw on best practices from previous community college STEM internship programs to design a sustainable cybersecurity internship program that engages approximately 15 students each year. These students will be chosen from those enrolled in the college's Associate of Applied Science degree program in Information Technology. An innovative aspect of the project is that it will recruit several students from the college's Bachelor of Applied Science program in Applied Management to assist with the design and management of the internship program. Through this work, the Applied Management students will gain familiarity with cybersecurity concepts and work roles that could be part of their management responsibilities in future employment. Major activities in the project include creating, managing, and leveraging the new Cybersecurity Collaborative with regional employers and high school leaders; designing and implementing the new cybersecurity internship program; and evaluating longer-term opportunities to enhance the college's responsiveness to the region's cybersecurity workforce needs. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, which focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

商业，工业和政府必须维护其计算机和信息系统的安全。 为此，技术人员必须做好充分的准备，以防止，检测和调查网络安全漏洞。由于网络威胁的数量和规模越来越大，对于拥有必要的网络安全知识和技能的更多技术人员也越来越需要。在华盛顿的斯波坎县，对网络安全工人的需求预计将在未来七年内所有职业的平均值增长四倍。该项目将帮助教育当今的大学生满足这一需求。该项目将创建一个“网络安全协作”，该项目吸引了地区高中的区域信息技术雇主和领导者。借助这一合作，斯波坎瀑布社区学院将在其相关课程中与雇主所需的网络安全技能保持一致，并将为从事网络安全职业的学生建立可持续的实习计划。该项目将利用以前的社区大学STEM实习计划的最佳实践，以设计可持续的网络社会实习计划，以设计约15年级的15年级学生。这些学生将是从学院应用科学技术副学士学位的那些学生中选择的。该项目的一个创新方面是，它将招募学院应用科学学士学位的几名学生应用管理管理，以协助实习计划的设计和管理。通过这项工作，应用管理的学生将熟悉网络安全概念和工作角色，这些概念可能是他们未来就业的管理职责的一部分。该项目的主要活动包括与区域雇主和高中领导者的新网络安全合作进行创建，管理和利用；设计和实施新的网络安全实习计划；并评估长期机会，以增强大学对该地区网络安全劳动力需求的响应能力。该项目由高级技术教育（ATE）计划资助，该计划的重点是推动美国经济的高级技术领域技术人员的教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。