Academic Roundup
Dusseau receives award from SME
TALWAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Dr. Steve Dusseau, professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, was chosen in October as one of five university professors in the nation to receive the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ 2021 Distinguished Faculty Advisor Award. Established in 2011, the award is presented to SME student chapter faculty advisors to recognize their continued oversight and engagement efforts advocating for students and the manufacturing industry. Faculty advisors share their expertise to integrate real-world design projects into their classrooms, offer on-site research lab experience, sponsor attendance at industry conferences and co-author scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and professional conferences. “Professor Dusseau is always looking to provide his students with enhanced learning opportunities that reinforce what they are learning in their books,” said Dr. Ying Shang, dean of the College of Engineering. “This is a well-deserved recognition for Steve and we are very proud of him.”
Cybersecurity major recaps prestigious internship opportunity In the spring issue of Indiana Tech Magazine, we introduced cybersecurity major, Param Mehta, and told you about the prestigious summer internship he earned from the Army Cyber Institute at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. This eight-week course was designed to give interns real-world experience in futuristic cyber research as it relates to the security of the nation. Fresh back from his internship, Param, who is also a member of the U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), sat with Indiana Tech Magazine to share his experience. ITM: Where do you hope your cybersecurity degree and this internship experience will take you? PM: I want to be a part of the Army’s Cyber Command* as my long-term career because I have
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always wanted to serve my country while doing what I love best, cybersecurity! ITM: How much closer are you to achieving this goal as a result of your internship? PM: I feel I am a stronger and more competitive candidate in contrast to my peers. During my internship, I was able to quickly learn and adapt to different programming languages and cyberrelated soft skills. These skills and experiences are helping me pursue independent research for my senior project on malware family analysis.
project, I learned how different types of programming languages (C++, Python, Rust, etc.) can be used to develop a robust tool that will detect a malware’s behavior within the operating system. I also researched different types of malware families to understand how they function and behave with Windows processes and system calls. This research helps with developing malware attribution rules for the API-analyzer to efficiently detect and flag instances of specific malware families. My senior project is an extension of the research and work I was doing during my internship.
*Launched in 2014, the U.S. Army Cyber Command integrates and conducts fullITM: Give a brief recap of your internship spectrum cyberspace operations, electronic experience. warfare and information operations, insuring freedom of action for friendly forces in and PM: I worked alongside a cyber officer/cyber through the cyber domain and the information researcher as a cyber research intern to study and environment, while denying the same to develop an API-analyzer to attribute and detect our adversaries. Positions within the Cyber Command are very competitive. various types of malware families. While on this
