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Vehicle Cyber Engineering Lab<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

As part of the Graduate Vehicle Cyber Engineering (VCE) program at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM), the VCE Lab gives master’s students hands-on experience with real industry problems and helps them build the skills, connections and credentials that make them stand out before they ever graduate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What We Do at the Vehicle Cyber Engineering Lab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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At the VCE Lab, faculty-led research goes beyond the classroom \u2014 targeting real industry problems and advancing thought leadership in automotive cybersecurity. With access to Car-in-a-Box, Truck-in-a-Box and other test beds, students gain hands-on experience detecting real-world automotive cyberattacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students don’t just study the field, they contribute to it. Master’s students who lead experiments earn first-author credit on published technical papers, with faculty providing guidance and institutional credibility. As one student put it: “I’m not just doing homework, I’m publishing it.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent publications from the lab include work on AI safety enhancements, cybersecurity rating frameworks and the development of Cybersecurity Labs as a Service (CLaaS). Explore the research: The Golden Tester<\/a> \u00b7 AI Safety Enhancements Based on ISO TR 5469<\/a> \u00b7 Cybersecurity Rating Framework and Its Application to J1939-91C<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than academic exercises, students’ work in the lab equates to real contributions to the field, with their names as the bylines, enhancing their employment marketability upon graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Zachos demonstrates a diagnostics gauge for U.S. Senator Gary Peters and former National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr. as part of a VCE Lab testbed. <\/em><\/strong>Photo courtesy of University of Detroit Mercy<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Vehicle cybersecurity is a national priority for both military and commercial fleets \u2014 and because the military relies on commercial transportation, the security stakes couldn’t be higher.”<\/em> <\/div>