About Shure-Grid
- Collaborative partnership between the David C. Frederick Honors College, the Swanson School of Engineering, Pitt’s Office of Research and the Idaho National Laboratory
- 12-week program that took place for the second time during summer of 2024
- 16 students across different departments and schools at Pitt, worked in teams of 4
- Each team worked on two different use cases to develop educational content and educate others
Key Aspects in Each Project
- Technical aspect: Learn system operation, vulnerabilities, attacks, security measures, CIE (cyber-informed engineering)
- Modeling/simulation aspect: Model system and attacks
- Organizational aspect: Analyze organizational structure, culture change, human behavior in complex systems, policy implications
- Storytelling aspect: Educate others!
Summer 2024 Projects
Team 1 Members
- Ethan Crosby, Computer Science
- Aidan Gresko, Computer Engineering
- Michael Estocin, Film and Communication
- Katie Fitzpatrick, Political Science and Psychology
Case #1: The Role of Human Machine Interface and Remote Terminal Units in the 2015 Ukraine Power Grid Attack
Case #2: Assessing Vulnerabilities in Wind Energy and Future Policy Through a 2022 German Cyberattack
Team 4 Members
- Abigail Magistro, Computer Engineering
- Amy Zhang, Digital Narrative and Interactive Design
- Erin Clark, Communication Rhetoric
- James Ross, Political Science and History