Welcome back
Rachel Fowler, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief | TLT Publisher's Pen June 2022
STLE has many benefits for you—in person and at home.
Here we are again—back to the June TLT, the very popular convention issue. Welcome back! It’s good to be having the in-person STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition again, isn’t it? Our last in-person meeting was in Nashville, Tenn., in 2019, which feels like a long time ago. Also, unfortunately, my flight to Nashville was delayed about 12 hours, so I didn’t get to connect with everyone as much as I would have liked. I look forward to meeting new people and seeing many familiar faces again.
As many of you will notice, the STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition features great technical presentations, discussion panels, the exhibition, Commercial Marketing Forum, education courses, networking opportunities and more. I hope you take advantage of everything the experience has to offer and enjoy being onsite again.
But if you are reading this and can’t attend this year, we hope you can join us at a future STLE Annual Meeting. While you are at home, in the office, at a coffee shop, etc., there’s new STLE content you can check out, including webinars and podcast episodes. STLE members can join the free virtual Industry Insights presentation and discussion series featuring a new topic each month. STLE members get monthly TLT Bonus Content online, too.
Industry Insights and TLT Bonus Content are just small perks of being an STLE member. Here are other benefits and ways to get involved:
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Volunteer. Volunteer with STLE to develop your leadership skills and share your technical expertise. Learn more about volunteering with STLE at
https://bit.ly/3qxgWQp.
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Access to the membership directory. Find and connect with STLE members using the online STLE Membership Directory at
www.stle.org.
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STLE Learning Pathways. Make use of this online resource library that includes peer-reviewed reference materials to use as a self-study or reference guide. Learn more about the Learning Pathways at
https://bit.ly/3ehk1zd.
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Join a local section. Attend STLE Local Section meetings held throughout the U.S. and Canada. Sections host networking, education and social events offering opportunities to engage with industry colleagues. Learn more about how you can get involved with sections at
https://bit.ly/3hE2t27.
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Industry webinars. Purchase STLE Webinars to learn best practices and strategies designed to increase your technical knowledge on a variety of topics in the field. STLE members get discounts on all webinars. For more information, visit
www.stle.org/webinars.
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STLE’s technical publications. Research topics of interest in TLT Archives, Tribology Letters, Tribology Online and Tribology Transactions. Full access is included with your STLE membership. Learn more about STLE technical publications at
https://bit.ly/3rSPugo.
To learn more about membership, go to
https://bit.ly/3riUZVI for the STLE Member Benefits Guide or email
membership@stle.org.
Back to the STLE Annual Meeting—TLT Editor Dr. Selim Erhan and I will be at the STLE Membership Booth for a TLT Meet and Greet on Sunday, May 15, from 9-10 a.m. This is my first Annual Meeting as publisher/editor-in-chief of TLT, so I’d love to connect with you and hear your ideas, comments and suggestions for the magazine. If you can’t make it at that time, feel free to connect with me in the STLE mobile app or email me at
rfowler@stle.org.
You can reach TLT publisher/editor-in-chief Rachel Fowler at rfowler@stle.org.