Quantum Education

We are working on several quantum education projects looking at various ways to teach students the knowledge and skills needed to work with quantum experiments. This includes investigating an industry-project-based senior capstone course at CU Boulder, a set of quantum optics experiments commonly used in undergraduate quantum and beyond-first-year lab courses, and a new cloud-based BEC experiment that has the potential to bring quantum experiments to students at all institutions.

Technologies such as quantum computing, networking, and sensing are moving out of the laboratory to applications in the wider world. These technologies are being developed and disseminated by a broad range of companies that make up the Quantum Industry (see, for example, the Quantum Economic Development Consortium). We are interested in learning how best higher-education institutions can adapt their existing curricula and degree programs  to meet the needs of this new industry.