Nearly 50 years ago, in 1979, I sat in a classroom on the beautiful campus of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. I was in my final year at Rollins before starting the second part of a five-year dual-degree program at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta. At Rollins, my three-year focus was physics, and, ultimately, my two-year focus, excluding grad school at Georgia Tech, was Electrical and Computer Engineering. The most memorable class at Rollins was P451, Quantum Physics, because it was both challenging and fascinating, revealing mysteries of this advanced science. Each day, my curiosity led me to ask myself what I would ever do with any of this knowledge. The book used for the class was “An Introduction to Quantum Physics” by A. P. French and Edwin F. Taylor. It still sits on the shelf of my home office, and I shake my head each time I look at it. Quantum physics, also known as quantum mechanics, is a branch of physics that explains how nature operates at its most fundamental levels, including the behavior of atoms, electrons, and photons. It may not be evident to most of us, however, that quantum physics is the foundation for much of modern technology, including semiconductors used in every electronic devices such as computers, smartphones, and household appliances, as well as in automotive applications, optical devices like lasers, and healthcare products like MRI machines; it is also fundamental to the emergence of quantum computing because these new quantum systems will use the principles of quantum physics to process information beyond the capabilities of today’s classical computers. My final reflections on this quantum physics class centered on learning about Erwin Schrödinger, an Austrian physicist and one of the founding figures of quantum mechanics, and the magnitude of the