CIE Curriculum Guide (V.2.0)
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Norwich Univ., Northfield, VT (United States)
- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
- Univ. of Houston, TX (United States); Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States)
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
- Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, TX (United States)
- National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), Golden, CO (United States); Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- Boise State Univ., ID (United States)
- Gonzalo Martinez Medina University of Texas at San Antonio
- Auburn Univ., AL (United States)
- Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
The Cyber-Informed Engineering (CIE) Curriculum Guide offers a comprehensive framework, guidance, and resources for integrating CIE into university-level engineering programs and related educational activities. The primary goal is to help educators adopt CIE principles into their teaching to produce future engineers and technicians who understand digital risks in modern engineered systems, thereby addressing the nation’s infrastructure resilience needs. This guide outlines practical integration examples, links to resources to accelerate CIE adoption, and shares insights from partner academic institutions on various implementation strategies. CIE is a framework for embedding engineered controls that mitigate the impact of cyber-attacks in any cyber-physical system used in critical energy infrastructure and other sectors. Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), the National Cyber-Informed Engineering Strategy emphasizes embedding CIE into formal education, training, and credentialing. This guide supports this strategic objective by providing examples of integrating CIE concepts into engineering curricula, from class activities to new courses and certificate programs. The importance of educating cyber-informed engineers is underscored by the evolving cybersecurity threats facing engineered systems. As industrial control systems (ICS) increasingly incorporate digital technologies, the responsibility for security extends to both cyber professionals and engineers. CIE addresses critical gaps in designing and protecting physical systems with digital components against cyber risks, ensuring engineers consider digital risk throughout the engineering design lifecycle. Currently, engineering education does not routinely include cyber-informed principles, highlighting a gap in addressing modern engineering system risks. This guide advocates for updating engineering curricula to include digital risk management as a fundamental element. By doing so, future engineers will be equipped to design resilient systems that mitigate digital risks from the outset. Through this guide, engineering faculty can integrate CIE into their curricula, bridging the gap between digital risk and engineering. This approach prepares a cyber-informed workforce capable of safeguarding the cyber-physical systems crucial to national security and public welfare. By embedding CIE into education and training, institutions can produce engineers and technicians who can effectively mitigate cyber impacts throughout the engineering design lifecycle, resulting in more secure critical infrastructures.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); USDOE Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 3006953
- Report Number(s):
- INL/RPT--25-88269
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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