{"id":12270,"date":"2022-11-20T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T17:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=12270"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:30:13","slug":"scholarships-help-students-pursue-vehicle-cybersecurity-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2022\/11\/20\/scholarships-help-students-pursue-vehicle-cybersecurity-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarships help students pursue vehicle cybersecurity education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12253\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/viceroy_awards.jpg?resize=300%2C212&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Victor Carpenter \u201922, Justus Lee and Alan Aguire-Sullivan pose with their VICEROY award certificates.\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/viceroy_awards.jpg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/viceroy_awards.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Three Detroit Mercy students recently received scholarships that will help them continue their vehicle cybersecurity education at the University.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Victor Carpenter \u201922 and juniors Alan Aguire-Sullivan and Justus Lee each received the College of Engineering &amp; Science\u2019s first Virtual Institutes for Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Research and Employ (VICEROY) awards, which are individual scholarships worth $10,000.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWe are honored to be able to offer the VICEROY awards to deserving students to continue their education at University of Detroit Mercy in Vehicle Cyber Engineering,\u201d said Paul Spadafora, director of professional engineering programs and industry liaison for the College of Engineering &amp; Science. \u201cThey are the first round of winners who will continue to reinforce our nation\u2019s cybersecurity resiliency.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Detroit Mercy\u2019s new Vehicle Cyber Engineering program has been developed to meet the growing needs of automotive and military organizations. The program is currently offered to students in two options: a master\u2019s degree or stackable graduate certificate.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The program is part of the Metro Detroit Regional Vehicle Cybersecurity Institute, which was established with a $1.12-million grant from the United States Department of Defense\u2019s (DoD) VICEROY program in 2021. The regional-based cybersecurity consortium was designed to increase the field\u2019s professional workforce and reduce the cybersecurity risk to the DoD and commercial ground vehicles.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eng-sci.udmercy.edu\/academics\/engineering\/vehicle-cyber-eng\">Learn more about Detroit Mercy\u2019s Vehicle Cyber Engineering programs<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Detroit Mercy students recently received scholarships that will help them continue their vehicle cybersecurity education at the University.\u00a0 Victor Carpenter \u201922 and juniors Alan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":12253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[5770,1111,886,5771,4719,5768,4716,5769],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2022\/11\/viceroy_awards.jpg?fit=400%2C283&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-3bU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12272,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12270\/revisions\/12272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}