Designing Biosecurity Concentration for Interdisciplinary Majors

This manuscript deals with the design and expansion of a highly successful cybersecurity program in a minority serving university through contemporary education and training methods in biosecurity for students who major in other disciplines, such as biological systems engineering and biotechnology. The key efforts will focus on curriculum development by means of a hands-on laboratory-based instruction as well as research-based technological development for biosecurity. This is accomplished by collaborative work involving two academic departments, namely, Computer & Information Sciences (CIS), and Biological Systems Engineering (BSE). The product is a cross-disciplinary concentration in biosecurity leading to a professional certification, which is ideal for undergraduate students and professionals with a biology background. Although this approach is modelled for a minority serving university, it can be replicated in other institutions of higher learning as well.

@article{Chi2018,
  title     = {Designing Biosecurity Concentration for Interdisciplinary Majors},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {9},
  number    = {1},
  year      = {2018},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Hongmei Chi and Satyanarayan Dev},
  doi       = {10.14569/SpecialIssue.2018.090187},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/SpecialIssue.2018.090187}
}