TRUST: Education and Outreach

TRUST education focuses on the integrating trustworthy technologies, systems, and policy into learning opportunities for a broad range of community participants. Our programs drive curriculum reform and training to teach the next generation of computer scientists, engineers, and social scientist. TRUST activities are focused at undergraduate, graduate and community partners.

Drive curriculum reform and training to teach the next generation of computer scientists, engineers, and social scientists;
Develop science and technology that will radically transform the ability of organizations to design, build, and operate trustworthy information systems for critical infrastructure;
Partner with educational institutions serving under-represented populations;
Increase the participation of underrepresented students in undergraduate and graduate research in the fields of security, privacy, and trustworthy systems.

The TRUST Scholars Program is a paid academic-year research experience for undergraduate students in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. The program provides opportunities for students to work with faculty on TRUST security, privacy, and trustworthy systems research projects. By working closely with faculty during the academic year, students will expand their knowledge and skills in security topics, become a mentor to local high school students, and become a member of an intellectual community engaged in leading-edge research.

The TRUST Academy Online (TAO) Portal supports online community outreach for TRUST. TAO Project Profiles share the stories of individual TRUST projects and provide access to related resources. TAO Courseware Profiles disseminate sets of learning materials contributed by TRUST investigators, institutions, and partners.

The TAO Portal implements the Open Archive Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This protocol enables metadata harvesters to catalog and maintain record data from our repository and promotes interoperability standards that facilitate the efficient dissemination of TAO content. [learn more]

WISE is a one-week residential summer program at a TRUSTcampus that brings together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and professors from all disciplines that are interested in Ubiquitous Secure Technology and the social, political, and economical ramifications that are associated with this technology. [learn more]

The TRUST-REU is a eight-week program strating in June. The goal of this program is to increase the level of diversity among students entering graduate programs by providing research opportunities under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Program objectives are: to provide students with preparation to become research scholars; to stimulate serious consideration of graduate study; and to increase the number of successful underserved applicants and to enroll these students in graduate school.

The TRUST-REU affords students an opportunity to conduct research under the direction and guidance of a TRUST faculty member and/or graduate student mentor. In most disciplines, scholars may propose a research topic, but the mentor determines the research project. Special consideration will be given to applicants who have shown potential for success, but may have had limited access to graduate research or other academic opportunities. The program strongly encourages applications from undergraduates who have been educationally or economically disadvantaged and who show potential to benefit from exposure to the environment of a research university. All applicants will be considered without regard to race or gender. [learn more]

SECuR-IT (Summer Experience, Colloquium and Research in Information Technology)

The Summer Experience, Colloquium and Research in Information Technology (SECuR-IT) is a ten-week paid internship. SECuR-IT is a collaboration between TRUST and our industry partners. The topic for the intern experience is cyber security and trustworthy systems. The ten-week Summer program is a cohort of 24 graduate students selected from a national pool of applicants. The internship experience includes leading Silicon Valley network security companies, such as eBay, PayPal, Juniper Networks, SalesForce, Symantec and others.

Weekly seminars will bring a variety of UC Berkeley, Stanford and San Jose State University faculty together in an exciting lecture format. The seminars will be designed to support the network security topics germane to our industry sponsor internship activities. Industry guest speakers will also be invited to speak at the seminars. [learn more]

Curriculum Development in Security and Information Assurance (CDSIA) is an annual workshop and capacity building program held at San Jose State University.

The objectives of CDSIA are to (1) reach out to the many universities of the California State University system and to other universities whose mission is focused on workforce preparation and undergraduate education, (2) share with faculty members of these institutions material and support structures developed by the TRUST partners, (3) strengthen the TRUST-related community of educators, and (4) facilitate the education of members of underrepresented communities in the domain of secure technologies. Location: San Jose State University

The workshop topics include: Security, information assurance and policy in the general education curriculum; Tools support for teaching IA and security curriculum components; Sharing and delivering curricula through the TRUST Academy Online (TAO); What preparation does industry require?; Certification and accreditation - where are we with respect to security?; What role (if any) should the teaching of “malware” play in the curriculum? [learn more]