Data Defense Seminar

• >45 minutes in length
• Has brief background sufficient for a newcomer to appreciate the material.  The background should draw on abundant resources. 
• After the background, a critical discussion of your thesis work is given. 
• The presentation must be PowerPoint and understandable to an audience of professional polymer scientists. 
• It must be delivered well. 
• Student must arrange for his or her thesis defense committee to be present to vote on whether it's a "pass" or "fail"
• Student should arrive with lab notebooks, data on CD-ROM or laptop.
• After the exam, the committee will pore over the data looking for sufficiency.
• Passing the data defense does not guarantee that additional problems in the thesis will not be found; it is merely an attempt to minimize the number of problems.