Rose-Hulman adding cybersecurity minor
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will offer a new cybersecurity minor in the coming academic year.
The institute says new minor will be available to all students, including those outside of the computer science and software engineering program, which already teaches cybersecurity through regular coursework.
“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,” Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Rick Stamper said in a news release. “Our new cybersecurity minor will provide the opportunity for our students to develop that capability.”
Rose-Hulman leaders say they hope the new minor supplements the study of students in other academic degree programs.
“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,” Associate Professor Sid Stamm said. “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.”
Rose-Hulman said its alumni have gone on to use their cybersecurity skills in work with companies like Microsoft, Meta, Google, Airbnb, Groupon and Salesforce, as well as government contractors like Northrop Grumman.
More information about the institute’s cybersecurity minor can be found at rose-hulman.edu/cybersecurity.