{"id":115825,"date":"2020-11-13T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T00:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/new-study-outlines-steps-higher-education-should-take-to-prepare-a-new-quantum-workforce"},"modified":"2020-11-13T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T00:22:47","slug":"new-study-outlines-steps-higher-education-should-take-to-prepare-a-new-quantum-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/new-study-outlines-steps-higher-education-should-take-to-prepare-a-new-quantum-workforce","title":{"rendered":"New study outlines steps higher education should take to prepare a new quantum workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-outlines-steps-higher-education-should-take-to-prepare-a-new-quantum-workforce.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study outlines ways colleges and universities can update their curricula to prepare the workforce for a new wave of quantum technology jobs. Three researchers, including Rochester Institute of Technology Associate Professor Ben Zwickl, suggested steps that need to be taken in a new paper in <i>Physical Review Physics Education Research<\/i> after interviewing managers at more than 20 quantum technology companies across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s authors from University of Colorado Boulder and RIT set out to better understand the types of entry-level positions that exist in these companies and the educational pathways that might lead into those jobs. They found that while the companies still seek employees with traditional STEM degrees, they want the candidates to have a grasp of fundamental concepts in quantum information science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a lot of those roles, there\u2019s this idea of being \u2018quantum aware\u2019 that\u2019s highly desirable,\u201d said Zwickl, a member of RIT\u2019s Future Photon Initiative and Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning and Evaluation. \u201cThe companies told us that many positions don\u2019t need to have deep expertise, but students could really benefit from a one- or two-semester introductory sequence that teaches the foundational concepts, some of the hardware implementations, how the algorithms work, what a qubit is, and things like that. Then a graduate can bring in all the strength of a traditional STEM degree but can speak the language that the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/company\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">company<\/a> is talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study outlines ways colleges and universities can update their curricula to prepare the workforce for a new wave of quantum technology jobs. Three researchers, including Rochester Institute of Technology Associate Professor Ben Zwickl, suggested steps that need to be taken in a new paper in Physical Review Physics Education Research after interviewing managers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1878,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-employment","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}