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The Partnership
 In partnership with Carnegie Mellon University’s
Information Networking Institute (INI), AIT offers a Master
of Science in Information Networking (MSIN), which is now a
paragon for international education within Carnegie Mellon
and around the world. INI and AIT have each invested
significant resources to create the Athens MSIN program,
which combines local and distance education to train
students in cutting edge technologies. The INI also offers
executive education courses for chief information officers
on its Athens campus.
In the summer of 2002, 23 students graduated from the MSIN
program. 30 new students joined the program in 2003 from
around the world: India, Bulgaria, Romania, Lebanon, the
Ukraine, the United States, and Greece. The class of 2005
included 26 students who represented seven countries and the
same breadth in diversity as their predecessors. The MSIN
class of 2006 was represented by an even greater diversity
of countries.
Th e Degree
The degree is awarded to the graduates of the
MSIN in
Athens directly from the CMU-INI. The MSIN degree from
Carnegie Mellon is fully accredited  by the Middle States
Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).
The graduating ceremony takes place in Athens and is
organized by the CMU-INI following the traditions of
Pittsburgh’s ceremony.
Admissions
 All admitted students must satisfy INI admissions criteria.
Admissions are decided by a joint INI-AIT committee with the
INI Director having veto power on admissions.
Degree Standards
The Athens
MSIN degree standards are based on the Pittsburgh
MSIN program and approved by the Engineering College
Council. There is ongoing educational assessment to assure
program quality and standards are maintained.
Course Delivery
 Four to five courses (three are core) are taught from
Carnegie Mellon to Athens via distance learning technologies
(real-time videoconferencing). Co-instructors and teaching
assistants at AIT support the remote students. All courses
are evaluated according to Carnegie Mellon standards. AIT
faculty teach the remaining courses onsite in Athens using MSIN curriculum guidelines and materials.
Carnegie Mellon faculty also spend at least one w eek per
semester onsite in Athens. During their week in Athens,
faculty typically teach at least two lectures from Athens to
Pittsburgh via distance learning technologies, giving the
Athens INI students an opportunity to experience
face-to-face instruction while the Pittsburgh INI students
experience class as remote students.
Library
 MSIN students in Athens have full access to the CMU library. Books required by the students in Athens may be sent by post from the Pittsburgh located library.
Co urse Delivery Technologies
MSIN core courses are delivered in real-time utilizing video
teleconferencing (VTC) technologies. Lectures are also
videotaped, digitized, and converted to streaming format
within 24 hours - CDs are then sent to Athens overnight. A
smartboard is used an an electronic whiteboard that enables
annotations to be streamed in real-time to AIT and saved.
The
Blackboard course management system acts as a central
interactive repository for all course materials (i.e.,
online gradebook, asynchronous discussion forums and a
virtual chat for synchronous exchange of information).
Faculty
The hiring process and standards for AIT
faculty are the
same as at Carnegie Mellon. The faculty teaching the MSIN
courses in Athens have adjunct faculty status in the INI.
Obtaining adjunct status requires a one semester residency
at Carnegie Mellon. Once obtained, the adjunct status is
reviewed and renewed every three years. INI and AIT
encourage research collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and
AIT faculty.
Educational Assessment
 The Athens MSIN is assessed on an ongoing basis to ensure
the integrity of the degree being conferred. The components
of the assessment includes: direct classroo m observation,
inter-rating grading analysis to ensure grading consistency,
tracking of overall performance, online surveys and focus
groups to measure student satisfaction, faculty course
evaluations rating overall course quality and quality of the
instructor, and continuous evaluation of distance learning
technologies.
Alu mni
Graduates of the MSIN degree in Athens are Carnegie Mellon
alumni and are included in all CMU communications,
invitations, events, retaining their CMU email account. They
have the same rights and the same obligations with their
fellow graduates from Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Mellon CyLab Athens Executive Education
Under the designation Carnegie Mellon CyLab Athens, Carnegie
Mellon and AIT have recently expanded their collaboration
into executive education and research.
Carnegie Mellon CyLab Athens will offer a new Chief
Information Officer executive program, “Leading and Building
a Secure Enterprise,” at AIT. This four-day training program
is designed to teach participants the leadership,
management, and analytical skills critical for reducing
organizational risk and improving information security
across an enterprise. The program will take place in Athens
with faculty from both Carnegie Mellon CyLab and AIT. Topics
to be covered include: An Overview of the Future Challenges
to Information Security; Risk Management and Business
Continuity Planning; Law, Investigation, Ethics and Privacy;
and Key Technologies and Emerging Trends.
Carnegie Mellon University
 Carnegie Mellon University, located in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, is one of America’s most prestigious and
well-known universities.
The university consists of seven colleges and schools: the
College of Engineering (Carnegie Institute of Technology),
the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and
Social Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, the David A.
Tepper School of Business, the School of Computer Science,
and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and
Management. Carnegie Mellon's schools and specialty programs
are consistently ranked among the best in the country by
national publications such as U.S. News & World Report,
Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal.
More than 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students study at
the Pittsburgh campus. Carnegie Mellon also has campuses in
California and the Arabian Gulf nation of Qatar, and the
university is expanding its international presence in Europe
and Asia with master's programs and other educational
partnerships, such as its partnership with AIT.
http://www.cmu.edu/
The Information Networking
Institute
 The Information Networking Institute (INI) was established
by Carnegie Mellon in 1989 as the nation’s first research
and education center devoted to information networking. As a
cooperative endeavor of the schools of Engineering, Computer
Science, Business and Public Policy, the INI’s professional
degree programs represent an exceptional fusion of
technologies, economics and policies of secure global
communication networks. Top students from around the world
attend the INI, seeking the broadened perspective and
enriched skill sets necessary to design solutions, manage
teams, and lead enterprises in today’s global networked
information technology marketplace.
http://www.ini.cmu.edu/
Carnegie Mellon CyLab
 Carnegie Mellon
CyLab is a bold and visionary endeavor aimed
at creating a public-private partnership to develop new
technologies for measurable, available, secure, trustworthy,
and sustainable computing and communications systems, and to
educate individuals at all levels. CyLab is an
interdisciplinary initiative involving more than 200
faculty, students, and staff from six departments within
Carnegie Mellon.
CyLab is the research partner of the Information Networking
Institute. Current research areas include: next-generation
response and prediction technologies, resilient and
self-healing networks and computing systems, secure access
to physical devices and spaces, software measurement and
assurance technologies and practices, data and information
privacy, threat prediction modeling, and business risk
analysis and economic implications.
CyLab’s faculty and research program expertise is
transferred to the private and public sectors through
education, training, and outreach initiatives. As a result
of their educational activities, CyLab and the INI have been
designated by the National Security Agency as a Center of
Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.
http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/
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