@Ari Noori I am planning on finding a job post graduate. If I’m not able to get a quantum specific job right out of school, I would like to do something adjacent where I can grow my technical skills that are applicable to quantum.

@Ari Noori thank you so much for your feedback!

I found the “Skills Every Quantum Engineer Needs to Know” very helpful and useful. As you have stated before, it is important to improve on your technical skills rather than just learning quantum knowledge. The technical and communication skills is what gets you the job at the end of the day. I think it would be good to expand on some of these topics because some are more complex than others. I know skills are transferable in specific domains such as microwave engineering, but what about these skills can specifically be applied to quantum computing? That’s just an example, but I’m sure there are other topics too.

@Emil Beauseigneur I can send you what I have for my project proposal now that has more technical writing, and the practical steps I plan on taking for the project.

I always had a love for computers. Specifically building computers. My love for computers began when I asked for a desktop computer for my 12th birthday. This was the first time I was able to independently work on computers and it led to a curiosity I had to pursue. I did not just wonder how the computer worked in basic terms. I wanted to understand the entire system, and how it all came together to make the machine function. This led me to pursue my own research on the components, which I mainly found through custom gaming computer setups. Realizing the issue, researching a solution, and achieving the goal began my pursuit of engineering to fully understand all the components I had used. Fast forward to my first year at Lehigh University, my interest had expanded from classical computers to quantum computers. I began to hear more about the quantum revolution and quantum computing. Deep down I knew to a certain extent that classical computers would not satisfy my compulsive curiosity of understanding how something worked. I quickly understood that quantum computing was the next computer revolution, and I began to develop my roadmap.