Thanks to the NRT grant, students in SJSU’s new Quantum Science master’s program will be awarded a quantum fellowship to come to Mines for a semester or two, take classes in the Mines’ Quantum Engineering Program, and participate in quantum engineering research at Mines and nearby national labs. The MOU provides opportunities for students to complete an MS/PhD bridge program from SJSU to Mines. The traineeship will also leverage a memorandum of understanding, created as part of Mines’ NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Concept Grant, between Mines and San Jose State University, a Hispanic Serving Institution within the California State University System. Focus areas include the creation of new training materials to introduce QISE basics to students from a wide variety of STEM disciplines, engagement with industrial and national lab partners to provide students access to cutting-edge technologies and research experiences, and the development of student recruitment and mentoring programs and diversity, inclusion and access training to ensure diversity within the QISE workforce. The NRT funding will allow Mines to grow that program at the same time as an interdisciplinary group of faculty work to address some of the broader challenges in training a quantum workforce.
Doctorates in the quantum engineering program can be obtained in any of six departments on campus, who all contribute jointly to the program.
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The program offers an undergraduate minor and graduate master’s degrees (thesis and non-thesis), with specialization tracks in quantum hardware and software, as well as professional upskilling via a graduate certificate for experienced engineers and scientists in industry. Mines launched one of the nation’s first quantum engineering programs at the graduate level in the Fall of 2020 with hands-on training on quantum hardware on campus and direct student access through the cloud to Google’s quantum computer.
“We’re a leading voice for quantum engineering education in the nation right now.” “This funding, along with our leadership in the development of a roadmap for quantum engineering education at the undergraduate level, really puts Mines on the map in quantum engineering,” said Lincoln Carr, professor of physics and principal investigator on the NSF grant. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) funding will support Mines, along with partners at San Jose State University, in the development of rigorous, integrated and interdisciplinary training programs preparing both master’s and doctoral students for careers in the burgeoning field of quantum information science and engineering (QISE), whether that’s in industry, government, academia or national labs. Thanks to a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Colorado School of Mines will take a leading role in that work.
Quantum information science and engineering could fundamentally reshape today’s leading technologies, from computing to communications to sensing.īut to fulfill that promise, a well-prepared workforce is essential.
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