Members from Michigan State University's Center for Quantum Computing, Science and Engineering, or MSU-Q, will join forces with four leading universities in the Midwest to develop QuSTEAM (Quantum Information Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics), a national model for innovative undergraduate curriculum in the emerging field of quantum technologies.
The multi-institution cohort was chosen to participate in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) newest and most unique structure, the Convergence Accelerator, or C-Accel.
Andrew Christlieb, MSU Foundation Professor and chair of the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE), is one of the technology leaders for the project.
Christlieb was instrumental in founding MSU's CMSE program and works with some of the largest data sets in the world. The MSU-Q co-director will provide computational science and engineering expertise.
The $700,000 grant begins in October and will unite the MSU-Q team with interdisciplinary faculty from Ohio State University, the University of Chicago, Chicago State University and the University of Illinois to begin the nine-month, Phase 1 development of QuSTEAM. After an additional two years of Phase 2a and 2b efforts, the team will implement the new curriculum.
MSU-Q is one of the world's largest centers for research, training, education and workforce development in quantum computing, science and engineering. In fact, many of today's quantum technologies are possible because researchers at MSU-Q began exploring how to read qubits, the fundamental component in next-generation quantum computers, in a variety of materials systems over two decades ago, according to the MSU-Q website.
Read more on MSU-Q's role in NSF C-Accel.
Story courtesy of the College of Natural Science.