Within our centers, academics, industry and communities come together to co-create holistic, innovative and sociotechnical solutions across a breadth of topics ranging from data privacy to social justice to securing our nation's information systems.
Center for Cyber Security Engineering and Technology
USD's Center for Cyber Security Engineering and Technology (CCSET) was launched to address the challenges to our nation as cyber attacks threaten the security, prosperity and privacy of the United States and its citizens. Through education, training and research, the center's programs fill a critical need for citizens, businesses and government agencies to learn how to properly engineer and manage secure systems.
Center for Digital Civil Society
Led by the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, USD's Center for Digital Civil Society engages the entire campus around issues of data science and artificial intelligence, and their social implications — ethics, privacy and fairness — to empower communities and technologists to work together to enable the ethical use of data. In addition to acting as a hub for the USD community, the center serves the broader public through consulting outreach, lectures and events as we explore the far-reaching impacts of these topics.
Engineering Exchange for Social Justice
Through the Engineering Exchange for Social Justice (ExSJ), USD faculty members, students and external volunteers work collaboratively with diverse marginalized community groups to co-create alternative solutions to community-defined "problem briefs," turning them into actionable student assignments, design projects, research theses or extra-curricular pro bono engineering projects that are supported by local engineers.