Training & Skills Hub in Quantum Systems Engineering: innovation in Quantum Business - Applications, Technology and Engineering (InQuBATE)

量子技术承诺通过使用源自量子物理的思想来改变测量、通信和计算。英国是这一领域许多开创性想法和技术的发源地；这些技术现在已经准备好从实验室转化为工业应用。由于国际公司已经在这一领域采取行动，而且英国正在通过大规模的国家研发计划加快技术转让，因此迫切需要能够在整个系统层面上与新技术合作的高技能研究人员，以提供解决现实世界问题的产品。我们的提议是出于培训这一新一代领导人的需要。它们需要在复杂的研究和工程环境中发挥作用，量子硬件(伴随着密码学、复杂性和信息论、设备、材料、软件和硬件工程方面的挑战)与真实的设备、真实的应用和真实的客户相遇。我们建议额外培训一批领导者，在伦敦大学学院提供的高度跨学科的研究环境下，利用两个非常成功的EPSRC博士培训中心的现有培训计划，提供量子技术和集成光子与电子系统，以及伦敦大学学院系统工程中心及其商业和政府实验室合作伙伴。我们将为优秀工程师提供一条新的博士培养路线。在第一年，学生将通过围绕当前工程挑战组织的三个集中模块获得设备、信息和计算科学的背景知识。他们将完成一个团队项目和一个更长的个人研究项目，为他们在年底选择主要的研究博士课题做准备。然后，他们将在伦敦大学学院或更广泛的国家量子技术计划中进行博士研究。在整个四年中，将继续进行沟通技能、技术转让、企业、团队合作和职业规划方面的跨队列培训。不仅通过有组织的跨队列活动，而且通过日常的社会互动，点对点的学习将不断得到促进。随着他们在培训期间在伦敦大学学院共处一地，我们预计技能中心团队将形成一个全国性的网络，以推动量子技术的应用。我们还将为最优秀的毕业生提供机会，让他们在博士阶段之后发展自己的想法，并加速新概念的应用，同时为那些已经在成熟的行业工作的人提供持续培训。

Quantum technologies promise a transformation of measurement, communication and computation by using ideas originating from quantum physics. The UK was the birthplace of many of the seminal ideas and techniques in this area; the technologies are now ready to translate from the laboratory into industrial applications. Since international companies are already moving in this area, and technology transfer in the UK is being accelerated through a substantial national research and development programme, there is a critical need for highly-skilled researchers who can work with the new technologies at the level of whole systems to provide products that solve real-world problems. Our proposal is driven by the need to train this new generation of leaders. They will need to be equipped to function in the complex research and engineering landscape where quantum hardware (with the attendant challenges in cryptography, complexity and information theory, devices, materials, software and hardware engineering) meets real devices, real applications and real customers. We propose to train an additional cohort of leaders to meet these challenges within the highly interdisciplinary research environment provided by UCL, exploiting the existing training programmes of two highly successful EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training, in Delivering Quantum Technologies and Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems, along with the UCL Centre for Systems Engineering and their commercial and governmental laboratory partners. We will provide a new doctoral training route for outstanding engineers. In their first year the students will obtain a background in devices, information and computational sciences through three concentrated modules organized around current engineering challenges. They will complete a team project and a longer individual research project, preparing them for their choice of main research doctoral topic at the end of the year. They will then move into doctoral research either within UCL or in the wider national Quantum Technologies Programme. Cross-cohort training in communication skills, technology transfer, enterprise, teamwork and career planning will continue throughout the four years. Peer to peer learning will be continually facilitated not only by organized cross-cohort activities, but also by the day to day social interaction. Following their co-location at UCL during training we expect the Skills Hub cohort to form a national network to advance the application of quantum technologies.We will also provide opportunities for the best graduates to develop their ideas beyond the PhD stage and to accelerate new concepts towards applications, while at the same time offering continuing training to those already working in industries ripe for applying quantum technologies.