The STEM placement students are sending us weekly blogs all about their experience in the world of work!
Work experience is great and it provides students with many benefits whilst gaining skills and helping choose the right future career path for pupils. Having work experience on a Curriculum Vitae will make a person stand out to employers as they will notice they have motivation and a real passion for work. It will also help to boost a students confidence in themselves!
See how InKyu is getting on with his STEM placement!
Week One
"The first week of my project at Surrey University was mostly spent familiarising myself with the campus and its various facilities as well as doing provisional research towards my project. My supervisor had already chosen for me to carry out an investigation into whether graphite pencil leads could be used to print an RC low-pass filter PCB. Researching various aspects of the project that could help with the investigation was not an easy task as the project idea at hand was completely original and not many related studies had been done before."
Week Two
"The second Monday marked the start of an intense week of experimental work, testing out various solvents for the graphite ink and substrates to print the ink on. It was not an easy process as our provisionally made inks clogged the printers, so a lot of time was spent cleaning them.
Unfortunately, by the end of the week, we had to resort a premade nanosilver ink which was not particularly successful either as it had very low conductance. However, we left the printed ink in an oven over the weekend to sinter, so hopefully we may have some success the following week."
-InKyu Kwon
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