{"id":89,"date":"2018-04-30T09:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T08:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/?p=89"},"modified":"2018-04-30T09:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T08:13:32","slug":"march-april2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/2018\/04\/30\/march-april2018\/","title":{"rendered":"March-April2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This few weeks has seen Mehmet pass his Viva, being my 4th PhD student to do so in less than 12 months!<br \/>\nWe have for the time being finished testing two cylindrical linear machines in the lab and are about to start testing some rectangular variants. Here is the first, with an unusual segmented stator design. (Based on the initial concept photographed in October 2017)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/testingapril2018-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/testingapril2018-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/testingapril2018-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/testingapril2018.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We went to PEMD on mass, where I was author on a massive 8 papers &#8211; and the EP group presented many more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/pemd2018-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/pemd2018-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/pemd2018-768x756.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/pemd2018-1024x1008.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/pemd2018.jpg 1385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recent STEM event include a taster session at the university for year 6 primary students and working a stand at the MakerFaireUK event.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/stemapril2018-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/stemapril2018-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/stemapril2018-768x291.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/stemapril2018-1024x388.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/04\/stemapril2018.jpg 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This few weeks has seen Mehmet pass his Viva, being my 4th PhD student to do so in less than 12 months! We have for the time being finished testing two cylindrical linear machines in the lab and are about to start testing some rectangular variants. Here is the first, with an unusual segmented stator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/2018\/04\/30\/march-april2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March-April2018<\/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-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}