World first bachelor’s degree in Quantum Engineering at UNSW Sydney

UNSW Sydney has introduced the world’s first undergraduate degree in quantum engineering, in response to a growing need for a workforce that can help Australia share in a multi-billion dollar industry.
The Bachelor of Quantum Engineering (Honours) will train students in advanced electronics and telecommunication engineering, specialising in how to design and control complex quantum systems. The degree will cover nanoelectronics, microwave engineering and quantum technologies for advanced sensors, secure communications and computing.

A world-leading expert in quantum engineering, UNSW Scientia Professor Andrea Morello, has been the driving force behind the new degree. He said an undergraduate offering in quantum technology will be key to building a world-class quantum workforce in Australia.

[basaltnow]

I am an engineer and I speak quantum physics and informatics as well. I never got a job offer in those fields in my life, so I work in electronics.
Very but very nice to hear that there is at least a bachelors degree available. Today that would be the engineering dicipline I would go for, plus mathematics and regular informatics which are both needed as well. All thumbs up.

[starguy]

John S. Bell, of Bell's Inequality, identified himself as a quantum engineer, when he was at CERN.

[robertschlesinger]

Sounds great. I hope you post a sequel video describing the curriculum. How similar is it to a photonics major?

[ruben]

Looks great! Interested in what kind of a curriculum you will offer to upcoming bachelor students

[moderatelypacedturtle]

what would career prospects look like with this degree? most jobs in the qc field require a phd/masters, so would most people graduating from this program go straight into graduate school or have a career?

[BSingh-onqr]

Oh wow. This might make me move from Victoria and transfer from Monash

[EliteObeid]

I would never get a bachelors in this degree, there is not enough evidence for this phenomena yet. If they offered a masters, I would definitely do it, if the time comes where they actually figure out Quebits after 50 years or so

[bumblebee]

Nobody wants to burst the bubble! Nobody wants to question or examine the underlying premise, namely that: "a qubit can be in multiple spin orientations simultaneously" or equivalently that "a qubit HAS no defined spin until it is measured" (and neglecting to explain the consequently necessary mechanism whereby one particular spin orientation instead of the other happens to be the one measured).

People just "assume" that this not-at-all understood "mysterious" phenomenon will provide a basis for quantum speedup. Quantum computing is possible, but that's not the issue.

The question is "can there be any quantum speedup due to this mysterious 'property' "

That this "mysterious property" might just be a misinterpretation of "superposition" is not something they are even willing to even consider, and thus the entire field rest on what amounts to nothing more than a religious acceptance of the basic premise, any questioning of which must be ridiculed and dimissed.

To base an etire technology on a phenomenon which is not understood and which might in fact be nothing but a misinterpretation, seems a little bit premature.

[MwelwaMuleba]

Can African students get scholarships? I checked the website and unfortunately I did not see any Africans with scholarships😢