Abstract
The United States Department of Homeland Security has identified 16 critical infrastructure sectors that employ computing, technology and engineering students. However, most undergraduate curricula in these disciplines do not incorporate the fundamentals of critical infrastructure protection (CIP) into their curricula in a meaningful way. This paper describes the design, development, and usage of a modular curricular framework for integrating CIP into undergraduate programs via self-contained interdisciplinary course modules; a course module is a distinct curricular unit such as a lab or teaching component for use by an instructor in existing courses without requiring any course or program modifications. The framework is designed for use in multiple disciplines, and the modules are designed for presentation at different levels of the undergraduate experience, with subsequent modules built on those presented earlier. In addition, the paper discusses assessment results obtained from the validation of the framework and modules over the past three years that covered 345 students at the community college and university levels.