Steve and Tim talk with Professor Tresa Pollock from UC Santa Barbara, the 2024 Van Vlack Lecturer in the MS&E department at U. Michigan. Tresa has had a very long and distinguished career in Materials Science and Engineering and has mentored many many graduate students. We had a discussion about graduate student mentoring amongst other things. You can find her website here:
https://materials.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/tresa-pollockYou can find the YouTube video here:
https://youtu.be/MfANbEKmRUwThis episode is sponsored by the North American Materials Education Symposium (
https://java.engin.umich.edu/NAMES24/) a gift from Prof. Ron Gibala, and the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (
https://mse.engin.umich.edu).