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Usman Sikander, PhD CEng
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🎓 Chartered Engineer | PhD Aerospace Engineering

✍️ I post about tech, self help, writing, gaming, academia to industry transition and photography

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November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Three more books to read, recommend and lent by a colleague. Cant wait to go through them! #booksky #reading

Have you read any of them?
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Big Ben, London.

Incredible what iPhone cameras can do.

#London #photography #iPhone
November 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Lighting makes all the difference.

#photography
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I do not want to leave this place!

#booksky
November 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Our paper on adhesion is online now.

It describes improvements in interfacial and interlaminar shear strength of UHMWPE-interleaved carbon/epoxy composite laminates as a result of Reactive Ion Etching.

Full article: bit.ly/4nLlGi6

@acs.org @pubs.acs.org

#academia #materials #PhD #PostDoc
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Just started reading this and loving it! #booksky
September 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Excited for my new Apple Watch and AirPods
September 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Travel. It helps.
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#photography #travel
June 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Travel. It helps.
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#photography #travel
June 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This puts a smile on my face every time i open this book - 2 chapters in!
#booksky #reading #philosophy #meditations
May 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Found this gem out on the trail at Castle Neroche. Seems like a dragonhead carved out of a fallen tree. So cool!
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#hike #trail #woods #uk #travel
May 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Pensford Viaduct, built in 1874 for the Bristol & North Somerset Railway, stands 95 feet tall with 16 arches. Disused since 1968, it’s now a striking Grade II listed landmark in Somerset. Image by me.
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#Railway #photography #bristol #travel #PensfordViaduct #Somerset #TravelUK
May 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I used to see such themes in movies, but then I went to Cheddar Gorge and found the colours I was looking for.
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#photography #cheddargorge #travel #uk #travel #spring #cycle #pub
May 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Earlier this year, I drove down to Durdle Door and it was a beautiful sight to see this natural rock formation. Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch on England's Jurassic Coast, formed over 140 million years ago. Must see sight!
#photography #nature #uk #durdledoor
April 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Bristol will always have a huge place in my heart ❤️. Picture taken by myself roaming around the iconic Wills Memorial building, during the last few days of my doctoral studies.
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#Bristol #phd #photography #uk
April 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Beautiful lighthouse at Portland - image captured this year by myself. The wind was crazy yet the edge of land was incredible.
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#nature #lighthouse #sea #photography #uk
April 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM