Education

Student Competitions, Challenges & Summer Schools

BIGDatA - BIG Data Analytics for Cyber-physical Systems
The goal of this initiative is to inspire and prepare undergraduate students to pursue academic studies and careers in STEM with a focus on big data analytics for cyber-physical systems (CPS). 

Bowie State University REU in Cybersecurity
A nine-week program where students work collaboratively and engage with faculty members in research teams. Student participants learn how to use the most current cyberinfrastructure tools with individually designed training sessions targeted to their specific degree of preparation.

CPP UAS in UAV Technologies
This 10-week program is designed to increase students' interest in UAV technologies by means of first-hand experience on UAV research with direct mentorship by faculty advisors from various departments within the CPP Colleges of Engineering and Science on advanced research projects in UAV flight dynamic and control, computer vision, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, and robotics.

CPS Summer School
The program will cover all the design phases of CPSs, starting from the conception of the idea down to the definition of the final system and will discuss the key challenges (including adaptivity support, modelling and security) presenting state-of-the-art tools and methods and allowing participants to play with industrial and academic design environments.

End User Programming of Cyber-Physical Systems
10-week Summer Undergraduate Research Experience centered in the Computer Science Department at Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Engineering in Richmond, VA. Topics include robotics, industrial machines, program analysis and natural language processing.

NSF-REU in Smart Computing and Communications at UMBC
Proposed projects will include a mix of theory and hands-on work and will leverage enabling paradigms (e.g., cloud computing, Internet-of-Things, high-speed wireless) to design, model, and implement novel techniques and solutions for smart computing and communication applications, encompassing algorithms for artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, edge analytics, signal processing, and big data. Some projects will also include building functional prototypes for demonstration.

TN Tech REU: Secure and Privacy-Preserving Cyber-Physical Systems - Software and Hardware Approaches
Focuses on cybersecurity challenges in future cyber-physical systems (CPS) including smart and safe cities, self-driving cars, industrial internet of things (IIoT), and smart power grid.

UNC Charlotte Summer REU in Computing
Engages undergraduate students in the state of the art in the infrastructure for cyber-physical systems, and the applications and interactions that are enabled by that infrastructure.

VU-ISIS Summer Internship Program
The Institute for Software-Integrated Systems' Summer Internship Program offers paid summer internship opportunities to current undergraduate and graduate students from both Vanderbilt and other universities. The Institute interns participate in a variety of projects that offer students challenging and engaging experiences.