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COURSE: WENG 270 Advanced Control Systems Cybersecurity Course

OBJECTIVE:  Apply basic cybersecurity principles to demonstrate how malicious code can impact control systems and other critical infrastructure.
DESCRIPTION:  This course presents hands-on education for civil engineers to understand the impact of cyber-attacks against control systems. Students engage in a series of lab exercises utilizing the Mobile Industrial Control System Security Trainer (MIST). The curriculum introduces students to ladder logic, human machine interfaces and basic networking principles that emulate a real-world control system. These lesson objectives are applied during the capstone exercise that illustrates how malicious code can create a physical effect on control systems.

CEUs: 3.0
PRIMARY AUDIENCE:  7 Level SSgts in the career fields of: 3E0X1 - Electrical Systems, 3E0X2 - Electric Power Production, 3E1X1 - Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, & Refrigeration, 3E4X1/A - Water and Fuel Systems Maintenance
SECONDARY AUDIENCE:  FWS technicians, 7-level SSgts, and applicable ARC members
PREREQUISITES: WENG 170
DELIVERY METHOD(S):  In-resident Course
COURSE OFFERINGS: 
Offering Location Dates Times Student Enrollment Window Course Director
25A Wright Patterson AFB 28-Oct-24 - 01-Nov-24 0800 - 1600 30-Jul-24 - 7-Oct-24 Nicholas Kulesza
25B Wright Patterson AFB 18-Nov-24 - 22-Nov-24 0800 - 1600 20-Aug-24 - 28-Oct-24 Nicholas Kulesza
25C Wright Patterson AFB 9-Dec-24 - 13-Dec-24 0800 - 1600 10-Sep-24 - 18-Nov-24 Nicholas Kulesza
25D Wright Patterson AFB 13-Jan-25 - 17-Jan-25 0800 - 1600 15-Oct-24 - 23-Dec-24 Nicholas Kulesza
25E Wright Patterson AFB 24-Feb-25 - 28-Feb-25 0800 - 1600 26-Nov-24 - 3-Feb-25 Nicholas Kulesza
25F Wright Patterson AFB 24-Mar-25 - 28-Mar-25 0800 - 1600 24-Dec-24 - 3-Mar-25 Nicholas Kulesza
25G Wright Patterson AFB 14-Apr-25 - 18-Apr-25 0800 - 1600 14-Jan-25 - 24-Mar-25 Nicholas Kulesza
25H Wright Patterson AFB 12-May-25 - 16-May-25 0800 - 1600 11-Feb-25 - 21-Apr-25 Nicholas Kulesza
25I Wright Patterson AFB 23-Jun-25 - 27-Jun-25 0800 - 1600 25-Mar-25 - 2-Jun-25 Nicholas Kulesza
25J Wright Patterson AFB 4-Aug-25 - 08-Aug-25 0800 - 1600 6-May-25 - 14-Jul-25 Nicholas Kulesza
25K Wright Patterson AFB 8-Sep-25 - 12-Sep-25 0800 - 1600 10-Jun-25 - 18-Aug-25 Nicholas Kulesza
25L Wright Patterson AFB 15-Sep-25 - 19-Sep-25 0800 - 1600 17-Jun-25 - 25-Aug-25 Nicholas Kulesza

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