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Volume 96 Issue 36
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Three vie to be dean of arts Committee will vote on which candidate to hire as new head of College of the Arts
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The recently purchased 3-D printers will shave significant time off student engineering projects, eliminating the need to send projects to off-site manufacturers.
A new dimension in printing
College of Engineering and Computer Science purchases 3-D printers SAMUEL MOUNTJOY Daily Titan In a massive machine shop filled with lathes, band saws and computer controlled mills, three brightly-lit 3-D printers look unimposing, but they represent a paradigm shift in engineering. Weeks ago, the College of Engineering and Computer Science bought the Airwolf 3D HD2x from a Costa Mesa-based manufacturer and within a day, students were using the printer to create custom objects made from durable plastic. Just a decade ago, the kind of 3-D printing being done in the Cal State Fullerton machine shop was done on extremely high-priced machines in the workshops of engineering and design corporations. Now, students can take the 3-D models they are designing in their classes using software like SolidWorks or Pro/ENGINEER and print them directly to see how they function in the real world. “If we can design it on a screen, we can manufacture it directly,” said Raman Unnikrishnan, Ph.D., dean of the College of Engineering
and Computer Science. “The near future is already here.” As student engineers work on their senior design projects, the 3-D printers can cut out multiple stages of the engineering process. Students no longer need to send their designs to a manufacturer to create a mold and then wait for the manufacturer to send it back, the 3-D printers can print the projects in a few hours in the machine shop. “It shortens the design cycle for sure,” Unnikrishnan said. “Students have very limited time, a semester goes by very quickly when you have a lot of complicated engineering projects.” The objects created by the printer can be a final product, but often they are a stage of engineering. Once a part is printed, the engineer may realize that it needs to be slightly smaller or other adjustments need to be made. With the new printers, the engineer can go back on the computer, make modifications and have a new model on very short notice. Once the design is finalized, molds of it can be made and the finished product can easily be mass produced.
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Students will be able to take digital designs from programs and create physical products using the 3-D printers.
Parts can even be downloaded from the Internet and printed directly, said Jonathan Woodland, the mechanical technician and
graduate student who oversees the machine shop. SEE PRINTERS
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Event will serve up student questions ‘Pizza with Presidents’ aims to create conversation between students and CSUF leaders
CESAR GAMBOA Daily Titan Grab a slice of pizza and serve up your questions. Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García and Associated Students, Inc. President Harpreet Bath will host “Pizza with the Presidents” Thursday at noon in an effort to interact with students, faculty and campus community through an open-forum discussion. Hosted once a semester, the event gives students a chance to ask questions and air their concerns to a panel that includes García, Bath and university leaders. “I’m always open to anything (students) want to talk about,” Bath said. “I think any and all questions are open, and I’m just very excited to talk to our students.”
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CSUF President Mildred García, ASI President Harpreet Bath and a panel of university leaders will field student questions and concerns at ‘Pizza with the Presidents’ Thursday.
The event’s goal is to make students more comfortable asking questions about CSUF directly to
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the university and student body presidents, Bath said. The open dialogue
format of the event fosters a sense of accountability, transparency and connection between students and
the university, he added. “Most of the time we’re focused solely on concerns, but there’s also a lot of good things that are happening at this university that students get a chance to hear about, students get a chance to listen about and really feel good about,” Bath said. Students are encouraged to participate by asking questions about the presidents, future university plans, the current state of Associated Students and CSUF, or any issues they have concerns about. Previous “Pizza with the Presidents” events have addressed topics such as the university strategic plan, budget cuts, the campus smoking ban and the Student Success Initiative fees. “It’s how we communicate and connect with our students. We connect oneon-one,” Bath said. “We want our students to feel good about being here.”
Adrián Tió, Nan Goggin and Noel Zahler, the three candidates for dean of the College of Arts, visited campus last week to make their case presentation and answer questions from the campus. “I think the search committee did an excellent job at finding candidates that were qualified for the position. All three have great and different strengths that are truly in need for the College of the Arts,” said John D. Spiak, director of Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center. A search committee will decide who to elect. Adrián Tió Tió’s background in art is well noted. Tió serves as the current dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received degrees from both Temple University and the University of Cincinnati, doing post-baccalaureate study at the Tyler School of Art in Rome. During his presentation, he emphasized how much fundraising is more about “friendraising” — building good relationships with people. As dean at Massachusetts Dartmouth, Tió said he learned how to collaborate with drawing people, historians, the visual arts, as well as different artists throughout the theater, dance and music departments. Teaching is something dear to Tió, he said, adding that he’s always intrigued by student work. “Every now and then, I will put something out there for a group of students and someone will come up with a solution I didn’t see coming, and that’s what I like, that ‘a-ha moment,’” Tió said. “Students always teach me probably as much as I teach them, and that’s the beauty of teaching.” Nan Goggin Goggin is currently the director of the School of Art Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and also serves as the art editor of Ninth Letter, the arts and literary project produced by the School of Art and Design’s Graduate Creative Writing Program. Goggin did her undergraduate work at Michigan State, earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Florida and is an award-winning designer and known pioneer of electronic art. Goggin explained to faculty that she considers art a collaborative effort. “To me, the arts is a place where people connect. It’s a place where thinking happens collectively,” Goggin said. SEE DEANS
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