COURSE CODE: 8496

Cybersecurity in Manufacturing, Advanced

SCED Code: 13002
Virginia Extended Description: IV
Suggested Grade Level: 11, 12
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: TSA
Non-Traditional?: F

This course will continue to expose students to the revolutionary and growing field of cybersecurity as it relates to manufacturing. Students will apply the principles of cybersecurity, research emerging technologies, analyze threat intelligence, and design protective measures. Students will participate in enterprise team activities to secure automated production processes, while demonstrating cybersecurity concepts and policies. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

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Course Sequences

A combination of this course and those below, equivalent to two 36-week courses, is a concentration sequence. Students wishing to complete a specialization may take additional courses based on their career pathways. A program completer is a student who has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all other requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.

Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
Information Support & Services
  • Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers
Network Systems
Programming & Software Development

Pathway Occupation
Manufacturing Production Process Development
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
Production
Quality Assurance

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Computer Hardware Engineers
  • Computer Programmers
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Network and Computer Systems Administrators

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