Career Development
The September Lunch & Learn will feature graduate students from Education and Materials! Enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with grads from across campus. Space is limited, so sign up today!
Join us for our ââââSeptember Lunch & Learn, featuring talks by graduate students in âEducation and Materials! Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the UCSB Library. âFeed your mind and your stomach while socializing with grad students from across the campus!
Lunch & Learn
This Edition: âCase Studies and Color Printing
âââWednesday, ââSeptember 5
Noon-1 p.m.
Library, Room 1312 (map)
Lunch will be provided
*To help us estimate food, âplease RSVP*
Case What? Case as a Study or Case as a Phenomena in Interdisciplinary Research
Noreen Balos
Graduate Student in âEducation
One approach to research is to look for patterns in data in order to generalize and test hypothesis or create theory. And when it comes to outliers, they can either be ignored as minimally influential or non-impactful. However, outliers or unique phenomena can provide clues for insights into new directions and strategies for inquiry. This logic, though, is not as easily explainable in interdisciplinary settings, especially between social science and STEM. So how do you choose a case that is understandable to multiple audiences with different epistemologies? Do disciplines comprehend and apply case study the same? This presentation uncovers differing disciplinary perspectives and thoughts to consider when choosing cases or case study. Sample observations will be used to illustrate how or when case study becomes (in)effective and when to possibly redirect research inquiry or design.
Printing with Color: Advancing Additive Manufacturing, One Wavelength at a Time
Neil Dolinski
Graduate Student in Materials
Additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) is an amazing technology that takes an easy-to-modify digital object and, as if by magic, makes it real. While many impressive examples of 3D-printed parts are purely aesthetic, great strides in potentially life-saving medical materials have been made using state-of-the-art 3D printers. However, there is a problem: 3D printing is extremely slow, taking upwards of 3 hours to print a single inch of material. In this talk, I will walk through recent advances developed at UCSB that use abundant visible light not only to speed up the printing process but also to vastly expand the materials scope of 3D-printed parts.
This event will be moderated byâ ââDon Lubach, Associate Dean of Students at UCSB.
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