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Engineering Ethics
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10.18260/1-2--34364
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CDR Benin is a graduate of the Coast Guard Academy (BSEE), having served as the Regimental Honor Officer and Chairman of the Cadet Standards of Conduct Board. He then served as the Electrical and Electronics Officer aboard the USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) while completing his Engineer-Officer-In-Training (EOIT) qualifications. He began graduate studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was selected as an adjunct MacArthur Fellow, and ultimately earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Information Security. In 2005, he was selected as a member of the Permanent Commissioned Teaching Staff (PCTS). He successfully defended his dissertation and graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and presently focuses on the areas of computer networks, programming, and security. He is the Program Coordinator for the Coast Guard Academy's Cyber Systems major and chair of the USCGA Cyber Council.
William Randall spent over 30 years in Coast Guard C4IT/C5I including serving as the senior civilian for the engineering, development, and protection of the Coast Guard's IT infrastructure at the Coast Guard's Telecommunication and Information Systems Command. William is currently the director of rowing at the Coast Guard Academy and has been lucky enough to be allowed to help in the development of the Cyber Systems Major at the Academy and to teach the first offering of the Cyber Ethics course.
The goal of this paper is to share the methodology and results of the United States Coast Guard Academy’s approach to developing a Cyber Ethics course for its Cyber Systems major with an additional focus on Law Enforcement. This paper seeks to apply an ethical framework to an emerging and ever-changing field of cybersecurity. Assessments from the first offering are shared as well as end of course student feedback. These are utilized as a basis of analysis for future improvement. The area of Cyber Ethics is a critical, relatively immature, interdisciplinary, and dynamic field that requires an understanding of ethical frameworks across history and an understanding of the technical details of cyber actions in order to make judgments on the ethical implications of such actions. This course has sought to extend ethical principles to the cyber domain while introducing many of the legal and policy considerations appropriate. Through the use of vibrant in class discussion, research and presentations, and a final project, students learned about, explored, and sought to discern the ethical implications of cybersecurity within the context of society, especially as it pertains to military and law enforcement. Student feedback validated that the course challenged them, offered them an opportunity to present their views, and extended what they had learned in their classic ethics class into the cyber domain. Based upon lessons learned, adjustments are being made for the second offering of this course in order to improve the flow and delivery of the class and the evaluation criteria. Changes are also being made to account for the increased class size from single to double digits.
Benin, J., & Randall, W. (2020, June), Curriculum Development for Cyber Ethics with a Focus on Law Enforcement Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34364
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