The Georgia Tech Graduate Information Assurance Certificate Petition

After completing the form, give the form to Marilou Mycko in ECE or Kathy Earwood in COC.

The scholarship information may be found at:

http://www.gtisc.gatech.edu/scholarship.html

College of Computing and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Information Assurance Certificate: 

In order to qualify for the graduate Information Assurance Certificate, a graduate student must take at least four courses subject to the following constraints:

A. Students must take at least one CS and at least one ECE class subject to the constraints below.

B. Students must take CS4235 Introduction to Information Security.

C. Students must also take either CS6250 Computer Networks, or ECE6607 Computer Communication Networks.

D. Students must also take at least two of the following courses (6 credit hours) listed below as a part of their graduate program:

ECE 8803        Secure Communications

ECE 8823        Cryptography Theory & Practice

ECE 6612        Computer Network Security

ECE 6102        Dependable Distributed Systems

CS 6210          Advanced Operating Systems

CS 6255          Principles of Network Management

CS 6260          Applied Cryptography

CS 6235          Secure Computer Systems

CS 6262          Network Security

CS 6265          Information Security Lab

CS 6300          Software Dev Process

CS 6330          Software Generation and Test

CS 6725          Information Security Policies and Strategies

CS 6269          Formal Models and Methods of Information Assurance

ECE880x         Special Topics, if approved by the certificate management advisor

CS880x           Special Topics, if approved by the certificate management advisor

1. Students must also meet the requirements of the Georgia Institute of Technology “Guidelines for Graduate Certificates”

2. Certificates are intended to encourage students to use the elective course requirements in their degree program to form a coherent package of coursework in a specified area. A certificate program must comprise at least 12 semester hours in a coherent program, of which at least 9 semester hours are upper-division coursework (numbered 6000 or above). A multi-disciplinary certificate program will additionally require that courses be taken from more than one academic unit and that at least 3 semester hours be taken outside the student's major field. Cross-listed courses may be counted as being outside the student's major field.

3. No more than 6 semester hours of Special Topics courses may be included in a certificate program.

4. Courses required by name and number in a student's major degree program may not be used in satisfying the course requirements for a certificate. However, courses used in a certificate also may be used to fulfill elective requirements (free electives, technical electives, humanities electives, social sciences electives, etc.) in the student's major degree program.

5. A course may not be counted toward more than one certificate and/or “formal” minor.

6. All courses counting toward the certificate must be completed in residence at Georgia Tech, be taken on a letter-grade basis, and be completed with a grade of C or better.

Certificate management advising for the program and awarding of the certificates is to be conducted by the graduate offices in both the College of Computing and in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Each unit will be responsible for their own students. Other students may apply to either unit. These units will verify that students have satisfied the requirements for a graduate degree and that students have satisfied all certificate requirements.