Slick research

Hugh Spikes
At Imperial College London, Professor Hugh Spikes studies the effects of friction. Professor Hugh Spikes, who holds the personal chair of Professor of Lubrication at Imperial College London, is no ivory-tower scientist, and he welcomes relationships between research and industry. “There’s always been a slight element of snobbery in the pure sciences about industrial funding,” he says, “but research in engineering, by defin­ition, always has practical applications.” Spikes says this pragmatism...
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Thinking outside the box

Analyzing engineering problems to arrive at elegant solutions is the forte of consultant David Wood.     Looking much like Auguste Rodin’s famous sculpture...