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That might have more to do with 1)students being cheap & 2)researchers often needing custom equipment that is unavaliable commercially. I know the justification
by zrobotics 8y ago
That might have more to do with 1)students being cheap & 2)researchers often needing custom equipment that is unavaliable commercially.
I know the justification given for undergrad chemists learning glassworking was the expectation that as professionals it would be a required skill.
- analog31 8y agoIt was for my dad. He was doing vacuum line work, so he pretty much had to do his own glasswork, because his requirements would change from one experiment to the next. Same as why a lot of scientists do their own programming. In my own case it was because instrumentation was the thing that I was ultimately interested in, and the expertise that I developed in grad school got me going in my career. The stuff that I built was on top of the roughly half million dollars worth of commercial equipment that I used.