3Qs: Dirk Englund on the quantum computing track within 6-5, “Electrical Engineering With Computing”.
In the new undergraduate engineering sequence in quantum engineering, students learn the foundations of the quantum computing “stack” before creating their own quantum engineered systems in the lab.
Dirk Englund, Associate Professor in EECS, has been part of a team of instructors developing the quantum course sequence.
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