Faculty member Alice Smith, along with David Umphress and Drew Hamilton, faculty members in computer science and software engineering, has been funded for a second year by the Department of Defense to continue a two-course sequence on systems engineering. The project, “Development of Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering Courses Focused on Secure Computing,” will enable students to develop a systems perspective while studying a secure, computationally intensive environment often found in the national defense sector.

The project will help to develop a pipeline of systems engineering students who are interested in tackling these challenges, as well as build an interdisciplinary community of systems engineering educators who are able to align their curriculum with national needs. Smith, Umphress and Hamilton will teach two courses in multi-disciplinary systems engineering with an emphasis in secure computing. The team has also begun collaborating with two researchers at Tuskegee University. The first course was offered in fall 2010.