TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Local students with an academic major at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will now have the opportunity to add a cybersecurity minor to their degree.
The addition of the minor will help to provide a strong foundation for students to engage with future technical challenges and work with a growing number of alumni that are impacting the cybersecurity industry.
The cybersecurity minor will provide courses that focus on teaching students cybersecurity skills outside of the typical computer science and software engineering program.
“We are excited to offer a new minor in cybersecurity,” said Rick Stamper, PhD, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs. “Computers are integrated into most products and services that engineers design today, so it is important that engineers from all majors are prepared to create systems that are secure from cyberattacks. Our new cybersecurity minor will provide the opportunity for our students to develop that capability.”
The computer science and software engineering major offered at Rose-Hulman is designed to give students a strong base in computer science with an emphasis on cybersecurity.
“Chemical and mechanical engineers, along with other STEM majors, should know how their designs are impacted by the computers that help automate the machines and critical infrastructure they build,” said Sid Stamm, PhD, associate professor of computer science and software engineering. “This cybersecurity minor is intended to enrich the existing degree program of students in these programs, so that they understand the safety implications of whatever they engineer or study. We want to prepare them to make the things they engineer, by default, secure from cyberattacks and safe for people to use.”
Many alumni from Rose-Hulman have put their cyber security knowledge to work at popular companies like Microsoft, Meta, Google, Airbnb, Groupon, and more.
Those interested in the cybersecurity minor offered by the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology can learn more here.
