Marisol Quaye
Convenor. Sets the twelve-week testing programme and marks the final structural defences.
- Role
- Convenor
- Affiliation
- Slop University School of Invented Disciplines
- marisol.quaye@slop.university
- Contact
- Email for anything course-level. Bring work-in-progress to the Week 4 and Week 9 consultations rather than to email.
Convenor of SLOP2895, and the author of the course’s four failure families — which she is careful to describe as a teaching classification rather than a finding.
Her interest is in structures nobody thinks of as structures: the ones assembled without drawings, loaded without calculation, and disposed of before anyone asks why they failed. The sandwich is the compact case. It has layers, interfaces, a declared use, a service life measured in minutes, and a failure mode that destroys its own evidence.
What to bring her#
Questions about the shape of the course, about whether a load case is defensible, and about marks. She would rather see an honestly documented failure than a successful test with no protocol behind it, and says so in every Week 1 lecture.
Consultations#
Week 4 and Week 9, in the laboratory, immediately after the session. These are the two points where a declared variable is most often the wrong one, and the cheapest time to find that out.
If a physical specimen is not a route you want to take, say so at any point. No reason is required and none is asked for.