• Question: What does your research involve? And how does computers help with and/or retrieve this data?

    Asked by anon-74406 on 3 Jun 2020.
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      anon answered on 3 Jun 2020:

      I work as a scientist in the field of atmospheric plasma. We use very fast circuits to produce electrical discharges similar to the lightning strikes but much smaller and useful for the chemical industry. In order to create and monitor these super fast lightnings we use computers to connect all our instruments and record the data for further analysis. It is really nice to be able to control tens of instruments from a single computer and have a live view but sometimes it is even more helpful when you can program the computer to do whatever task it is needed. If you like computers and research there are millions of things you could explore with a bit of clever programming.

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    I work in research to do with manufacturing batteries for electric vehicles. But more specifically on the methods of making the packs that go into the vehicles. We have set up a small manufacturing facility in one of our labs at WMG called the AMPLiFII line. There are conveyors as well as automated machines that do some of the assembly tasks, and test chambers to test a battery module once it’s finished. We use computers to run these machines and tests, which means it’s faster and more reliable, and we can also collect lots of data to help us improve our processes and make batteries in a better way.