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UHCL Cybercorps is progressing to develop cross-cutting education in Cybersecurity to meet modern-day challenges

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Fostering Collaboration

The UHCL Cybercorps project fosters collaboration to sustain effective development and evaluation of course offerings.

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Transforming Education

UHCL Cybercorps team is transforming traditional education in cybersecurity by extensive gap analysis and curriculum modernization

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Delivering Effective Cybersecurity Through Modernization!

  • Our Goals

    The goals of the NSF Cybercorps is to,

      i) develop a tested approach for modernizing the nation's traditional computer science degree programs to incorporate cyber threats awareness and cybersecurity knowledge and skills;
      ii) enhance faculty and curricular development in cybersecurity;
      iii) update labs and course materials for other small colleges and universities to adopt
      iv) expand academia-industry collaboration;
      v) increase opportunities for students to pursue professional careers in cybersecurity.

  • Our Objectives

    The project will establish collaboration with cybersecurity and educational professionals to sustain effective development and evaluation of course modules, courses, and degree programs. In addition, it will investigate NSF-funded programs and other resources to create an inventory of available course materials, hands-on labs, and degree program information to support Cyber Defense education. Further, the project will devise a plan to effectively integrate cybersecurity education into the existing programs by engaging educators in a variety of programs, and analyze the potential impact of the planned changes on existing program accreditations. The approach will seek to engage undergraduate and graduate students in various aspects of the proposed project. As a result, this project will produce a rigorous and adoptable approach of modernizing a traditional computer program to meet the nation's need for educating more capable cybersecurity professionals.

  • NSF Grant Information

    Under the National Science Foundation's Division of Graduate Education(DGE), Cybercorps: Scholars for Service, the grant was awarded to the University of Houston Clear Lake.

    Title:Revamping a Traditional Computer Science Program to Meet Modern-day Cybersecurity Education Challenges
    Initial Amendment Date: July 31, 2017
    Latest Amendment Date: July 31, 2017
    Award Number: 1723596
    Award Instrument: Standard Grant
    Start Date: September 1, 2017
    End Date: August 31, 2020 (Estimated)
    Investigator(s): Toneluh Yang yang@uhcl.edu (Principal Investigator), Wei Wei (Co-Principal Investigator), Kewei Sha (Co-Principal Investigator), Sadegh Davari (Co-Principal Investigator)
    Program Reference Code(s):7434, 9178, 9179, SMET
    Program Element Code(s): 1668