I arrive at work, say to everyone in my hall (it's a friendly work environment!)I go see my supervisor to ask if there's anything I need to be working on urgently, or if I should just continue my research project. I will also probably get coffee. After that I'll usually work independently on my p...
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I would say that if you want to work in tribology, you'll need to gain research experience in tribology - same in any field you want to go into, really. When my supervisor emailed me, he quizzed me on my experience using a high frequency reciprocating rig, Nanovea tools for measuring dynamic fric...
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Tribology
Given the short amount of time I had to complete my experiment, I got in early and left fairly late, putting in about 10 hours per day. I would run a test using HFRR, which lasted for about an hour and a half. During this testing time, I would examine previous samples in SEM or under a Zeiss LSM ...
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US Army
Materials Engineering
Army Research Laboratory
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Tribology