Embed Your Future in a Secure Career with a Cyber Engineering Degree from Gannon University
Gannon’s cyber engineering program will provide you with the knowledge and skills to become a highly sought-after professional of smart devices for automation and controls leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and secured embedded devices.
You will be prepared to meet in-demand careers in industries including health care, cyber defense, robotics and transportation.
- Region’s first cyber engineering degree.
- Increase your marketability and gain the knowledge needed for various certification tests such as CompTIA.
- Learn from experienced faculty experts who are professionals in their fields.
Learn to Lead the Way in Cyber Engineering
- Course and project work emphasize hardware and software design and helps students learn to develop the secure embedded systems for our knowledge economy.
- Apply protective technologies and forensic techniques to analyze security of systems and maintain operations in the presence of threats to protect data intelligence.
- According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage is approximately $121,000.
Experience an Exceptional Learning Environment
- Gannon’s Institute for Health and Cyber Knowledge, or I-HACK, integrates academics and industry to design and protect cybernetic intelligence and data systems worldwide.
- Learn within a high-quality facility using leading technology in educational spaces including:
- Pierre McCormick Cyber Learning Center
- Cyber Attack Laboratory
- Cyber Defense Laboratory
- Cyber Innovation Laboratory
Inspire Your Academic Success
Gain real-world knowledge through key cyber engineering courses including:
- IT Security: Core concepts needed to secure an organization’s network as an IT security specialist.
- Cyber-Physical Systems: Integration of mechanics, electronics and software in a rapid-prototyping system-based approach.
- Secured Embedded Systems: Hands-on approach to understanding cyber-attacks using resource-constrained embedded devices, architecting and implementing a root of trust (RoT) embedded system from power-up, firmware launching and boot-loading.
- Trusted OS: Gain project experience with a secure system as an administrator and user.
Achieve Your Possibilities
Students will gain advanced knowledge and skills in computer network security principles and cyber forensics that will enable the design of software to maintain secure systems. Gannon’s cyber engineering program aims to educate students to:
- Apply security principles and practices to the design, implementation and operations of the physical, software and human components of cyber systems.
- Apply protective technologies and forensic techniques.
- Analyze and evaluate components and systems with respect to security and to maintain operations in the presence of risks and threats.
- Consider and understand legal, regulatory, privacy, ethics and human behavior topics.