Sandbox
Sandbox events are 1-day ideation sessions with the aim to generate collaborative project ideas. Events are topic-based and take place once a year.
Aims:
- networking among faculty members with different expertise
- generating new project ideas arising from discussion in interdisciplinary teams
Participants:
Sandbox events address professors and senior scientists from within the network, who are interested in the topic. Additionally, selected guests from other academic institutions and industry are invited.
Program:
During a one-day meeting, project ideas are generated in brainstorming sessions. Some of these ideas are then worked out in more details in teams. The different research proposals are presented towards the end of the meeting and discussed by the participants.
Benefits:
- the topic is approached from different perspectives because of the broad range of expertise
- being away from the office stimulates a creative brainstorming process
- a very short time is enough to generate the basis for one or more project proposals
Previous Sandbox Events:
Data Science meets Materials and Processes
How can approaches in data science, machine learning and cognitive computing be leveraged to guide the understanding and design of advanced materials, processes and manufacturing technologies?
At the Sandbox 2019, about 20 MaP faculty and senior experts from IBM research joined this guided ideation workshop to frame specific collaborative projects.
From 2006 to 2013 the Materials Research Center (MRC), which is one of MaP's predecessors, organised Sandpit events on the following topics:
- 2013: Materials for Energy Conversion
- 2012: Materials Processing on the Micro and Nano Scale
- 2011: Functional Coatings & Surface Treatments
- 2010: Materials in Medical Use
- 2009: Smart Materials (on the occasion of the external page NFP 62)
- 2008: Materials for Mobile Energy Storage
- 2006: Materials and Imaging (2-day event)