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Asked by 694enec44 to Hilly, Lee, Liz, Tadhg, Yasmin on 22 Jun 2015.
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Lee Margetts answered on 22 Jun 2015:
Nowadays, it is my PhD students who spend most of the time in workshops. They prepare samples for physical testing and then use the results to either calibrate or check the results of computer simulations. At the University of Manchester, we have some of the best experimental facilities in the UK. For example, we have the most powerful gun on the planet. It can fire projectiles at 10-15 km/s. This is used for testing the shields used to protect satellites and other space craft from micrometeorite impacts.
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Yasmin Ali answered on 22 Jun 2015:
To me a workshop is when you get the whole team together to work a problem! They can be really good, especially if you have funny people there.
I’ve organised a few in the past, like project risk workshops where we all think about what things could go wrong on the project and we come up with ways to stop that from happening!
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Tadhg O'Donovan answered on 22 Jun 2015:
Yes! I really would like to do more in the workshop and more in the research lab. I’m always trying to “get my hands dirty”. But as your career progresses, it often happens that you are more of a supervisor than a “doer” – and I think that’s a bit of a shame. So – whenever I get some free time, I try to get back in the workshop or run some experiments. I’m not as good as my team though – and I reckon they think I only get in the way 🙁
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David Hill answered on 23 Jun 2015:
Yes, I love getting down into a workshop! Its not my “scene” but its a great place to learn and speak to the guys who are on site! Most of my work is done on a computer and sometimes its easy to overlook the practical aspects of work…. so getting on to the work floor is a great way to get that experience! 🙂
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