Innovative engineering outreach using Intel® security and embedded tools

During Spring 2013, the Evaluation Platforms Program from Intel and the Intel Software and Services Group donated Intel
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Atom™ processor based development kits to the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Departments at Virginia Tech University and Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU Poly). The goal was to enable engineering faculty to develop projects based on Intel
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security and embedded tools. The projects thus developed, key learnings and project outcomes are elucidated in this paper. Further, we evaluate the outreach projects to highlight the two different, yet important approaches to security curriculum development emphasizing security engineering versus security attacks.