TY - JOUR
T1 - Building a Quantum Engineering Undergraduate Program
AU - Asfaw, Abraham
AU - Blais, Alexandre
AU - Brown, Kenneth R.
AU - Candelaria, Jonathan
AU - Cantwell, Christopher
AU - Carr, Lincoln D.
AU - Combes, Joshua
AU - Debroy, Dripto M.
AU - Donohue, John M.
AU - Economou, Sophia E.
AU - Edwards, Emily
AU - Fox, Michael F.J.
AU - Girvin, Steven M.
AU - Ho, Alan
AU - Hurst, Hilary M.
AU - Jacob, Zubin
AU - Johnson, Blake R.
AU - Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel
AU - Joynt, Robert
AU - Kapit, Eliot
AU - Klein-Seetharaman, Judith
AU - Laforest, Martin
AU - Lewandowski, H. J.
AU - Lynn, Theresa W.
AU - McRae, Corey Rae H.
AU - Merzbacher, Celia
AU - Michalakis, Spyridon
AU - Narang, Prineha
AU - Oliver, William D.
AU - Palsberg, Jens
AU - Pappas, David P.
AU - Raymer, Michael G.
AU - Reilly, David J.
AU - Saffman, Mark
AU - Searles, Thomas A.
AU - Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
AU - Singh, Chandralekha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient engineers at the bachelor's level. Research Question: What is the best way to provide a flexible framework that can be tailored for the full academic ecosystem? Methodology: A workshop of 480 QISE researchers from across academia, government, industry, and national laboratories was convened to draw on best practices; representative authors developed this roadmap. Findings: 1) For quantum-aware engineers, design of a first quantum engineering course, accessible to all STEM students, is described; 2) for the education and training of quantum-proficient engineers, both a quantum engineering minor accessible to all STEM majors, and a quantum track directly integrated into individual engineering majors are detailed, requiring only three to four newly developed courses complementing existing STEM classes; 3) a conceptual QISE course for implementation at any postsecondary institution, including community colleges and military schools, is delineated; 4) QISE presents extraordinary opportunities to work toward rectifying issues of inclusivity and equity that continue to be pervasive within engineering. A plan to do so is presented, as well as how quantum engineering education offers an excellent set of education research opportunities; and 5) a hands-on training plan on quantum hardware is outlined, a key component of any quantum engineering program, with a variety of technologies, including optics, atoms and ions, cryogenic and solid-state technologies, nanofabrication, and control and readout electronics.
AB - Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient engineers at the bachelor's level. Research Question: What is the best way to provide a flexible framework that can be tailored for the full academic ecosystem? Methodology: A workshop of 480 QISE researchers from across academia, government, industry, and national laboratories was convened to draw on best practices; representative authors developed this roadmap. Findings: 1) For quantum-aware engineers, design of a first quantum engineering course, accessible to all STEM students, is described; 2) for the education and training of quantum-proficient engineers, both a quantum engineering minor accessible to all STEM majors, and a quantum track directly integrated into individual engineering majors are detailed, requiring only three to four newly developed courses complementing existing STEM classes; 3) a conceptual QISE course for implementation at any postsecondary institution, including community colleges and military schools, is delineated; 4) QISE presents extraordinary opportunities to work toward rectifying issues of inclusivity and equity that continue to be pervasive within engineering. A plan to do so is presented, as well as how quantum engineering education offers an excellent set of education research opportunities; and 5) a hands-on training plan on quantum hardware is outlined, a key component of any quantum engineering program, with a variety of technologies, including optics, atoms and ions, cryogenic and solid-state technologies, nanofabrication, and control and readout electronics.
KW - Quantum engineering
KW - Quantum information science (QIS)
KW - Undergraduate education
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U2 - 10.1109/TE.2022.3144943
DO - 10.1109/TE.2022.3144943
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124217999
SN - 0018-9359
VL - 65
SP - 220
EP - 242
JO - IEEE Transactions on Education
JF - IEEE Transactions on Education
IS - 2
ER -