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Abstract-- This paper overviews our experience with design II. COURSE DESCRIPTION
and development of a new smart grid course focused on cyber-
The course being developed at WSU has four components:
security. The course is team-taught by power and computer
science faculty members and intended for seniors and graduate
smart grid operation and control; communication; data
students from computer science and engineering. Key areas of management and computing; and basics of cyber-security.
focus, covered in this paper are the need for a new course and the The course will be team taught by the co-authors of this paper
course description along with our experience in locating and and titled, “Critical Infrastructure Security: The Emerging
creating course materials. Smart Grid”. Our objectives in creating this course were:
• Design a course with multi-disciplinary content
Index Terms—Workforce development, smart grid education, integrating topics from data communication, computing,
course development. control, cyber-security and power systems that are
relevant to secure operations of smart grids.
I. INTRODUCTION • Design a course to target audience of senior