2015 Higginson Lecture

	Title of The Talk
	STRANGER THAN FRICTION (Engineering and Bio-Tribology)
	Guest Speaker
	Professor Duncan Dowson CBE, FRS, FRSE, FREng, FIMechE
	Event Sponsors:
	Institution of Engineering & Technology Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Abstract:

Tribology, the science of lubrication, friction and wear, affects our everyday lives from improvements in vehicle efficiency to design of artificial human joints. Prof. Dowson, one of the field’s founders, will illustrate how successful tribology research has been across this wide range of applications.