A day with the research team

Being a researcher for one day, is that at all possible? Doesn’t research mean years of searching, trying out, rejecting, thinking it over, calculating, finding proofs, only to get the Nobel Prize at the age of 80?

While you won’t get the Nobel Prize today at Baylab plastics, you can still be a researcher for one day. At the end of the day at the research team, you will have a real product in your hands, manufactured according to your ideas and imagination and all done by you.

It will be up to you to make the important decisions on the choice of the right material and optimal processing. How? For example by tensile or tear resistance tests, or the determination of the melt temperature and residual moisture of materials. Maybe having a closer look with the microscope will also help you. You might also have to take into consideration that the design team wants special surface structures, while the technology team is still struggling with the operational parameters of the injection-molding machine. On top of it all, the communications team approaches you with an urgent interview request for the student newspaper or your school’s website.

Cooperation is not only needed in your team but also among the teams! Because the goal is to turn a handful of plastic granules into a product together – one that you can show off with and that can be used in real life.