“We recognized that this is something that’s been identified as a national need and, as quantum technology moves out of academia and national labs to industry, you’re going to need a bigger workforce—and you are never going to have enough people with PhDs to do that.”

“We’re hoping to broaden the scope of who participates. We are excited about the prospect of using educational materials that Mines has developed and working together to develop new ones to develop a blueprint for teaching quantum to a new array of students, not just Princeton, not just Harvard, not just PhDs. We’re going to need folks of all skill levels to work toward these technologies.”

“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”

“Our goal is to create a template for quantum information science and engineering graduate education, which will be accessible to STEM students from all backgrounds and types of institutions, increasing diversity in QISE.”

“Quantum technologies are poised to revolutionize how we compute, communicate, and sense and this requires engineers that have an interdisciplinary education.”