NSF Convergence Accelerator- Track C: QuSTEAM: Convergent Undergraduate Education in Quantum Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics

NSF融合加速器支持以使用为灵感，以团队为基础，多学科的努力，解决国家重要性的挑战，并将在不久的将来产生对社会有价值的可交付成果。该项目旨在开发一个结合量子信息科学、技术、工程、艺术和数学（QuSTEAM）的本科课程，以建立量子智能劳动力。QuSTEAM课程将采用模块化形式，包括面对面、在线和混合交付方式。这些模块将为各种利益相关者提供教育机会，包括劳动力成员、两年制机构、四年制机构和少数民族服务机构。该项目将利用与行业和国家实验室的合作伙伴关系，确定关键技能和思维模式，并直接参与教育和教学，确保课程将培养多样化的量子智能劳动力。QuSTEAM课程将依靠以研究为基础的教育最佳实践，提供融合和包容的课程，以培养多样化的量子智能劳动力。该课程结构将从头开始设计，以解决迄今为止限制STEM培训多样性和包容性的结构性障碍，并将通过整合传统STEM学科以外的内容，包括QIS技术的社会影响的同步培训。该项目将与那些进行量子研究和STEAM教育研究的人合作，在主修、辅修和证书水平上创建多层次的课程。可交付成果包括(1)跨学科模块示意图，详细说明如何为不同的教育目标（学士，硕士，证书）组织QIS能力的构建模块；(2)为积极促进课程的公平和包容而采取的步骤，并将作为QuSTEAM以外课程发展的典范；(3)展示QuSTEAM实施情况的个别课程课程。该课程将为量子信息科学（QIS）教育提供一个框架，可以在全国范围内实施，以发展多样化的量子智能劳动力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The NSF Convergence Accelerator supports use-inspired, team-based, multidisciplinary efforts that address challenges of national importance and will produce deliverables of value to society in the near future. This project aims to develop an undergraduate curriculum that combines Quantum Information Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (QuSTEAM) to build a quantum smart workforce. The QuSTEAM curriculum will have a modular format with in-person, online, and hybrid delivery modalities. The modules will provide educational opportunities for a variety of stakeholders including members of the workforce, 2-year institutions, 4-year institutions, and minority-serving institutions. The project will leverage partnerships with industry and national labs to both identify critical skills and modes of thought, and to directly participate in education and pedagogy, ensuring that the curriculum will develop a diverse quantum smart workforce.The QuSTEAM curriculum will rely on research-based educational best practices to provide a convergent and inclusive curriculum to develop a diverse quantum smart workforce. This curricular structure will be designed from the ground up to address structural barriers that have to date limited the diversity and inclusiveness of STEM training, and will include concurrent training in the societal impact of QIS technologies by incorporating content beyond traditional STEM disciplines. The project will engage with those conducting quantum research as well as STEAM education research to create a multi-tiered curriculum at the major, minor, and certificate level. Deliverables include (1) a schematic of interdisciplinary modules that details how the building blocks of QIS competency can be organized for different educational targets (BS, AD, certificate); (2) a map of steps taken to actively promote equity and inclusivity in the curriculum that will serve as a model for curricular development beyond QuSTEAM; and (3) individual course curricula that demonstrate the implementation of QuSTEAM. This curriculum will provide a framework for quantum information sciences (QIS) education that can be implemented at a national scale to develop a diverse quantum smart workforce.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.