Exploring Ways to Give Engineering Cybersecurity Students a Stronger Policy and Management Perspective
Lance J. Hoffman, Rachelle S. Heller, Costis Toregas · 2025
This paper describes lessons learned teaching cybersecurity classes in a crossdisciplinary cybersecurity scholarship program at the George Washington University that has been successfully completed by over six dozen students in ten majors.The majority of the students have obtained master's degrees in computer science, but almost half have been from other disciplines, with a significant number of undergraduates, a couple of community college transfer students, and a few doctoral students.A required seminar in Cybersecurity and Governance that mixes the students from all majors for common projects and events is described in detail.Cooperation among internal and external academic institutions is discussed.We conclude with some predictions for future directions in cybersecurity education and comments that could be generalized for other educational programs with students from a multitude of academic discipline backgrounds.