Integrative Training in Quantum Assembly and Technology

量子科学和技术的未来发展将需要来自多个领域的见解和技术的结合，并将受益于从不同领域招聘人才。要实现“量子飞跃”的承诺，就需要超越目前研究生教育的主要模式，即在不同的院系进行孤立的专业教学。未来的发现和发展将由新一代量子科学家推动，使量子科学真正跨学科培训计划的发展成为国家紧迫的优先事项。量子组装技术综合培训（InTriQATe）项目旨在建立一个训练有素、富有创造力和热情的跨学科量子科学社区。InTriQATe本质上是一个多学科的培训计划，专注于量子组装的中心主题：整合不同的量子元素，并将不同的量子科学家团队聚集在一起，以实现新的功能和行为。这项NSF研究实习（NRT）奖将为学生在多样化的量子劳动力中担任领导角色做好准备。该项目预计将培养75名博士生，其中包括30名受资助的实习生，他们来自物理学、电子与计算机工程、分子生物学、化学和材料。InTriQATe NRT项目将通过融合量子科学的现代工具集的新课程改变研究生课程；口头和书面沟通、合作和研究伦理方面的专业培训；积极和协调的指导。新课程将成为量子科学与技术新博士课程的核心，向参与部门的所有博士候选人开放。受训者将组成一个跨学科的量子社区，定期举办全校范围的研讨会、学生主导的研讨会和非正式午餐。学员将通过团队研究项目获得合作经验，并通过与其他院校的互惠“超级交流”计划，培养领导能力和沟通技巧。最后，学员将通过量子职业日与量子行业的代表建立联系，以获得更广阔的量子劳动力机会。该项目的中心目标是通过结合多个领域的见解和技术来加速量子科学的进步。物理学家、工程师、化学家和生物化学家、材料科学家等将共同努力，创造未来的量子设备，并为受训者提供领导这场革命所需的技术技能、专业培训、信心和跨学科视角。对生物分子、基于超材料和捕获原子的量子组装方法的三重关注将确保跨学科和核收敛方法来解决开放的科学问题。美国国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训新模式。该项目致力于通过创新、循证、适应不断变化的劳动力和研究需求的综合培训模式，在高优先级跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。由于该项目与数学和物理科学理事会（MPS）的研究重点保持一致，因此该项目得到了MPS多学科活动办公室的共同资助。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。

Future advances in quantum science and technology will require the combination of insights and techniques from multiple fields and will benefit from recruiting talent from diverse areas. Achieving the promise of a “quantum leap” will require moving beyond the siloed and specialized instruction in separate departments that is the dominant model for graduate education today. Future discovery and development will be driven by the emerging generation of quantum scientists, making the development of truly interdisciplinary training programs in quantum science an urgent national priority. The Integrative Training in Quantum Assembly & Technology (InTriQATe) project aims to build a well-trained, creative, and welcoming interdisciplinary quantum science community. InTriQATe is an intrinsically multidisciplinary traineeship program focused on the central theme of quantum assembly: the integration of disparate quantum elements, and the bringing together of a diverse team of quantum scientists, to achieve new functionalities and behaviors. This NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) award will prepare students for leadership in a diverse quantum workforce. The project anticipates training 75 Ph.D. students, including 30 funded trainees, from Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Molecular Biology, Chemistry, and Materials. The InTriQATe NRT project will transform the graduate curriculum with new courses on the modern toolset of convergent quantum science; professional training in oral and written communication, collaboration, and research ethics; and pro-active and coordinated mentoring. The new courses will be at the core of a new Ph.D. emphasis in Quantum Science & Technology, open to all doctoral candidates in participating departments. Trainees will form an interdisciplinary quantum community, hosting regular campus-wide workshops, student-led seminars, and informal lunches. Trainees will gain collaborative experience through team research projects and build leadership and communication skills by engaging in a reciprocal “superexchange” program with other institutions. Finally, trainees will network with representatives from the quantum industry through a Quantum Career Day to gain a broader perspective on opportunities in the quantum workforce. A central goal of this project is to accelerate advances in quantum science by combining insights and techniques from multiple fields. Physicists, engineers, chemists and biochemists, materials scientists, and others will be working together to create the quantum devices of the future and give trainees the technical skills, professional training, confidence, and interdisciplinary perspective necessary to lead this revolution. A threefold focus on biomolecular, metamaterial-based, and trapped-atom approaches to quantum assembly will ensure interdisciplinarity and nucleate convergent approaches to open scientific questions. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. Because of its alignment with the research thrusts within the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), the project is receiving co-funding from the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities.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.