The QSE Roadmap and Journal is undergoing a major upgrade this week (Dec. 18-25) to a new graphical interface. Some of the Roadmap entries may be temporarily truncated: they will return after they have been converted. Happy Holidays to all!
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The ME Department encourages any and all qualified applicants, from both theoretical and experimental backgrounds, who seek to create and teach new technologies that push against the bounds that quantum mechanics imposes on the speed, accuracy, sensitivity, size, and power consumption of modern mechatronic devices.
This position provides a wonderful opportunity to participate in creating and teaching the new, exciting, strategically important, and rapidly growing engineering discipline of quantum system engineering (QSE).
Entry #1: Monday, November 20, 2006
This is the first entry in the UW QSE Group's Roadmap and Journal. Each page first comments upon a successive entry in our group's (working) QSE Roadmap, and then describes our recent activities.
QSE Roadmap Comments
Quantum Resources for a New Century
Technology development is inherently a federative activity. Not only must mathematics, physics, and engineering principles be federated to achieve a working design, but equally challenging, the objectives of the sponsors of the development effort must also be federated.
The UW QSE Roadmap and Journal is our attempt to help create this federation of science, technology, and sponsors. The above first page (if you click on it) provides advance notice of some of the major federative themes of the Roadmap:
- Quantum mechanics is non-mysterious,
- Quantum system engineering (QSE) is feasible,
- Beautiful new mathematics and physics will be required in abundance, and
- Science-engineering partnerships benefit everyone.
A Working Document ...
The QSE Roadmap and Journal is a working document: it is not some future plan, but rather, it directly guides our QSE Group's daily activities.
A Living Document ...
Necessarily, the QSE Roadmap and Journal is a living document: we amend and adjust the roadmap at frequent intervals, and these frequent adjustments will be reflected in this commentary.
A Federative Document ...
Most of all, the QSE Roadmap and Journal is a federative document: it is explicitly intended to recruit colleagues and collaborators to join us in exploring new frontiers.
Journal entry for Monday, November 20, 2006
The Institute for Soldier Healing
Roadmaps are driven by objectives, and we therefore begin this journal by summarizing the main objective of our QSE Roadmap: Regenerative Healing for Every Wounded Soldier.
This objective derives from our close affiliation with the UW School of Medicine and from our sponsorship by the Army Research Office. We intend that this primary objective carry in-train the objectives of all of our UW QSE Group's sponsors: the UW Medical School, the UW College of Engineering, the NIH, the NSF, and the DoD/Army/ARO.
The Embrace of Healing, Security, and Enterprise
The next twelve weeks of the QSE Roadmap and Journal lead up to this concluding page from our QSE Roadmap, which is scheduled for discussion on Wednesday, February 14,2007:
The rest is detail, and these details—together with the federative
commitment of the team that addresses them—are the most important part of the
QSE Roadmap.
- The Roadmap
- I: History
- – Feynman
- – Dirac
- – Pauling
- – innovation
- – frontiers
- II: Hardware
- – performance
- – metrics
- – innovation
- – spacecraft
- – missions
- – Apollo
- – stages
- – opportunities
- III: Tools
- – Kavli
- – complexity
- – overview
- – formalism
- – hardware
- – single-spin
- – feasibility
- – efficiency
- – robustness
- – transformation
- – capabilities
- – shinkansen
- – mysteries
- – rollouts
- IV: Strategics
- – victory
- – openness
- – federation
- – foundations
- – underway
- V: Healing
