{"id":240,"date":"2021-07-01T09:09:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/?p=240"},"modified":"2021-07-01T09:23:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:23:51","slug":"june-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/2021\/07\/01\/june-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the last 6 days I have had 5 industrial project meetings (one quarterly review, one project end, one face-face on campus), submitted 2 papers, overseen 12 equipment procurements (\u00a32.5M), costed up and submitted 5 grant submissions (value to Newcastle, \u00a31.8m), marked several undergraduate reports and orals, been internal examiner for a PhD student plus a host of duties involved in being Chair of the Board of Examiners during results week. Time to breath now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still pushing on with research. Am expecting some testing to start in the next month on a pretty unusual machine which we have been developing over several years. Also, our latest linear machine has started its mechanical testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1 July 2021\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PQmpTvfdiA0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bit rough round the edges, but some very creative assembly techniques used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 6 days I have had 5 industrial project meetings (one quarterly review, one project end, one face-face on campus), submitted 2 papers, overseen 12 equipment procurements (\u00a32.5M), costed up and submitted 5 grant submissions (value to Newcastle, \u00a31.8m), marked several undergraduate reports and orals, been internal examiner for a PhD student plus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/2021\/07\/01\/june-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}