One of industry’s own wins top UK Engineering Award
Sixty years after he launched a whole new field of engineering, Peter Jost is to be honored with one of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering’s top accolades – the Sustained Achievement Award – for his vision and achievements in tribology. Jost and British physicist David Tabor coined the word tribology, the science and engineering of interacting moving surfaces, in 1964.
What might appear to be mundane issues of friction and lubrication are now understood to have applications way beyond engineering, from medicine and dentistry to nanotechnology. He will receive the award on October 29 at the Academy’s annual Hinton Lecture.
Tribology is central to managing the costly effects of friction and wear, as confirmed by separate surveys done in Germany, the U.S.A., Canada, China, the UK and Japan. Each country concluded that investing in tribology could save up to 1.4% of their respective gross domestic product (GDP).
