Career Development
Join us for our August Lunch & Learn featuring graduate students from Materials and Education! Enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with grads from across campus. RSVP today!
Join us for our âââââAugust Lunch & Learn featuring talks by graduate students in âMaterials and âEducation! 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: âââFuel & Field Trips
Wednesday, âAugust 7
Noon-1 p.m.
Library, Room 1312 (map)
Lunch will be provided
*To help us estimate food, âplease RSVP*
Simulating New Materials for the Hydrogen Economy of Tomorrow
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe, and it is an exceptional chemical fuel source, providing three times as much energy per mass as natural gas when used in a fuel cell. Solid state hydrogen fuel cells solve several of the problems inherent in current technologies, including durability, ease of storage, and safety; however, new materials are needed to make them feasible. I will discuss our computational approach to identifying and engineering candidate materials for solid state hydrogen fuel cells, in which we use high-performance computing and quantum mechanics to understand the fundamental properties of materials at the atomic scale. Our methodology allows us to guide experimental work developing the systems that will make hydrogen more broadly practical as a renewable source of energy in the future.
Engineering Explorations: How Do We Make Field Trips Last?
Ali Muller
âPhD Student in Education
Many people get to take a field trip at some point during their K-12 experience; however, these are typically treated as an independent experience from the normal classroom curriculum. As a result, students are missing out on an extremely rich learning opportunity. My research focuses on extending field trips into classroom curriculum to allow students to develop holistic models of various scientific phenomenon encountered on field trips to an interactive science museum.
This event will be moderated byâ âRobby Nadler, the Writing Specialist in the Graduate Division at UCSB.
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