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Thank you for your interest in submitting an abstract to present at the 2025 STLE Tribology & Lubrication for E-Mobility Conference in Detroit, Michigan, November 19-21, 2025 . Please complete the submission form with your abstract. Abstracts must be 1,000 words or less. Please note that all presenters must be willing to present in person at the STLE E-Mobility Conference.
Please also note STLE's commercialism policy.
STLE offers opportunities to get involved in serving our technical community through participation with our local sections, committees, and other activities. Please note you must be a current STLE member to serve on any STLE committee.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with STLE!
Available Volunteer Openings!
STLE Technical Committees
Time Commitment: Few hours – 1 year, varies based on volunteer activity. Requirements: Current STLE Member
STLE Technical Committees are specialized groups dedicated to advancing the science and practice of tribology and lubrication engineering. Each committee specializes in a specific area of interest such as biotribology, environmentally friendly fluids, grease, metalworking, and more. Their activities include fostering research, publishing papers in STLE’s journals and publications, organizing discussions, and supporting the development of content and meeting programming for STLE technical conferences.
STLE Development Committee
Time Commitment: Few hours - 1 year, varies based on volunteer activity. Requirements: Current STLE Member
Description: The Development Committee provides strategic direction/guidance for STLE's NextGen Fund, which directly supports various programs and initiatives that help students and early career professionals in advancing their technical knowledge, research, and career opportunities. These initiatives include STLE Early Career Awards, Student and Early Career Research Posters, Local Section Support, Tribology STEM Camp, Presidential Awards Program and Student Travel Grants for Conference Attendance. The committee's responsibilities include identifying, nurturing, soliciting, and managing current and potential donors. They also collaborate with staff and STLE's Board of Directors on other fundraising strategies to support the NextGen Fund.
Editorial & Publications Committee
Time Commitment: Few hours - 1 year, varies based on volunteer activity. Committee members serve a three-year term with the option to serve two terms. Requirements: Current STLE Member
Description: The function of the STLE Editorial & Publications Committee is to provide strategic direction/guidance and to implement policies and procedures to ensure that the content, format and frequency of STLE's major technical publications and other print & digital products provide alignment with the society's mission and the needs of its members.
- Tribology & Lubrication Technology (STLE monthly magazine)
- Tribology Transactions (STLE peer-reviewed journal)
- Tribology Letters (STLE-affiliated peer reviewed journal)
- Technical books
- Special reports
- Website
Meetings will be held at the discretion of the committee chair, but the committee and subcommittees meet at least four times a year.
STLE Education Committee
Time Commitment: Few hours - 1 year, varies based on volunteer activity. Requirements: Current STLE Member
Description: The Education Committee is responsible for maintaining and expanding STLE's educational content, including annual meeting education courses, webinars, Industry Insights discussion series, short courses, and the STLE Virtual Symposium. This role involves assisting with subject matters, networking with industry professionals, collaborating with other volunteers, recruiting new volunteers, and fulfilling other duties as assigned.
Oil Monitoring Analyst (OMA) Education Committee
Time Commitment: Virtual committee meetings are held once a month for an hour. Additional outside work may be required at times in preparation. Requirements: Current STLE Member
Description: The Oil Monitoring Analyst (OMA) Education Committee is responsible for maintaining the OMA certification exam and advancing STLE by introducing cutting-edge topics in oil monitoring. This role involves assisting with subject matters, networking with industry professionals, collaborating with other volunteers, recruiting new volunteers, and fulfilling other duties as assigned. Those with the STLE OMA certification designation are preferred candidates for this committee.
STLE E-Mobility Conference Planning Committee
Time Commitment: Virtual committee meetings are held every two to three weeks for an hour. Requirements: Current STLE Member
Description: The STLE E-Mobility Conference Planning Committee is responsible for designing the technical program for the STLE Tribology & Lubrication for E-Mobility Conference, which aims to connect industry professionals with leading experts and companies in the e-mobility field. As a committee member, you'll collaborate with industry and STLE representatives to determine the event's timeline venue, subject matter, strategic approach and overall direction. Additionally, the committee reviews the abstracts submitted for talks, makes decisions on acceptance, and presides over various sessions during the conference.
Member Ambassadors
Time Commitment: One year (ongoing join date) Requirements: Current STLE Member
Description: Ambassadors meet remotely once a month and spend a few minutes to an hour each month welcoming new members by email and phone and may also help staff the Annual Meeting STLE Membership booth and attend the new member welcome reception.
Webinar Presenter – STLE Education
Time Commitment: Short-Term (Few hours) (For members or non-members)
Description: STLE Education is looking for individuals (members or non-members) who would be interested in presenting a self-created, one-hour technical subject-based Webinar. STLE welcomes any topic submissions or suggestions for webinars, however, subject areas that are most in demand by STLE are these topics:
- Electric Motor Lubrication
- Pneumatics
- Natural Gas Engines
- Fuels and their Impact on Lubrication
Industry Insights Presenter – STLE Education
Time Commitment: Short-Term (few hours) (For members or non-members)
Description: The Industry Insights virtual discussion series comes out each month exclusively to STLE members only. Presenters are asked to bring a relevant and emerging topic in the field of tribology and lubrication to present. Each presentation should talk about the relevancy of the issue, how it applies to the field, experiences with it, and where others might see this in their own jobs. Each presenter should put together a 30- to 40-minute presentation and take questions from participants for the last part of the discussion.
STLE Perfecting Motion® Podcast – STLE Education
Time Commitment: Short-Term (few hours) (For members or non-members)
Description: The STLE podcast series focuses on emerging trends in the industry, STLE member benefits, and events. Individuals interested in recording a 20- to 40-minute episode must have at least one other person to host the episode to facilitate a conversation (more than one is also fine). Presenters will meet with STLE’s director of professional development beforehand to outline topics, questions, formatting, and final edits of the podcast prior to recording via Zoom. Presenters will have the opportunity to have edits made prior to it being published on all major streaming podcast platforms.
STLE Local Sections
Time Commitment: Few hours – 1 year, varies based on volunteer activity. Requirements: Current STLE Member
Description: STLE Local Sections provide quality programming on a variety of industry-related topics. Get involved with your local section by volunteering to speak at one of the technical meetings, sponsoring educational meetings, or participating in networking and social events.
Thank you for your sponsorship. STLE is a 501C3 corporation and your donation is tax deductible as a business expense. Sponsorship invoices are due upon receipt.
This form is used for nonmember speakers and presenters at the STLE Annual Meeting. Individual members should register directly online to receive correct pricing.
Thank you very much for serving as a member of the STLE volunteer leadership in 2023. You are one of more than 300 people from across North America and around the world who generously provide our organization with the energy to pursue its vision of being the foremost technical society in tribology, lubrication engineering and related sciences.
STLE volunteers serve in a variety of capacities and represent a wide range of companies and organizations. This type of involvement would not be possible without the support of your employer. We would like to demonstrate STLE’s appreciation for this commitment by sending a letter of thanks to the appropriate person. Simply complete the form and STLE will send a letter.
Thank you for your participation in the Member Highlights project. Member Highlights will be a new feature on the STLE homepage starting in 2024. The idea is to highlight the wonderful work/research our members are doing while also promoting STLE Membership.
Please fill out the following questions in the Member Highlights form. Take as much space as needed to answer each question. In addition to your responses, please provide a high-resolution image of yourself no smaller than 300x400 pixels in png or jpg file format. We will use the image to create a nice graphic banner that will link to your page with answers. This will all be archived on the STLE website.
IMPORTANT: Please complete and return this form to STLE Headquarters.
Please note if you are reporting in a currency other than US dollars. (Example: Canadian dollars) Please annotate the dollar amounts received and monies paid for separate functions such as social activities, education courses, /technical meetings. etc. The fiscal year beginning balance (July 1st) in the main checking account plus monies received (revenues) minus monies paid (expenses) should equal the fiscal year ending balance (June 30th) in the main checking account.
Please use this form to request badges for your booth staff.
This request form will create Exhibit Hall Only badges for your staff who are working in the exhibit hall at your booth and grant access to use the lead retrieval system. Our new lead retrieval system is built into the STLE mobile app. You are allowed 4 booth staff per 10x10 booth.
If you have a larger booth, you may submit this form multiple times.
Enhancing your company’s profile and maximizing its ability to tap into the services of the lubricant industry’s premier technical society is what STLE’s Corporate Membership Program is all about. Becoming an STLE Corporate Member means access to many of STLE’s best marketing features, educational offerings and professional networking services—all at significant savings to your company.
Already a value-rich benefits structure, STLE’s Corporate Membership program has been enhanced to offer an increased number of reasons to join. Both the CM Basic program and the new CM Premium option extend a variety of opportunities to connect with the Society and raise your company’s profile
This form is used to apply your corporate member benefit of free registrations to your selection of attendees for this year's STLE Annual Meeting.
You are allowed 2 or 3 attendees depending on your membership level. This registration includes 2 or 3 courses and luncheon tickets. You can add additional STLE or ABMA courses for an additional fee.
Course books are delivered digitally to your registrant's Professional Development portal in their STLE online profile.
Individuals must satisfy at least 3 of 14 requirements by providing documentation for each and pay a renewal fee if you are under 9 years of holding your certification. If you have had your certification for 9 years or more, please simply pay your renewal fee and submit an employer letter verifying employment.
You may save your work and list your requirements as you complete them.
Requires a current official school transcript. Available to full-time undergraduate or graduate students in an accredited academic institution majoring in physics, chemistry, engineering or other related technical or scientific disciplines.
Each month TLT publishes a short interview with an STLE member or intriguing person in the lubricants/tribology community. The person should have an interesting job or be considered a leading figure in his or her field.
There are no restrictions on who is a good candidate. Subjects can come from any area involving lubrication engineering or tribology—manufacturers, engineers, sales/marketing personnel, academicians, researchers, search-firm executives or industry leaders.
Please identify an interesting person whom you think would make a good subject for a 20 Minutes interview. Contacting this individual to see if he or she is willing to be profiled is mandatory before submitting their name. This also is a good time to ask the individual about key topics to discuss.
You should provide the person’s name, organization, job title and the reasons why you think this individual would make a good interview subject. In addition, please provide 4-5 “starter” questions to get the interview rolling. The questions you submit should relate to the person’s work or research. The idea is to find an engaging person and get him or her to discuss the technical aspects of their work. Please let your candidate know that he or she also will submit questions, guiding the direction of the article, and have final approval of the content. Click here to read a 20 Minutes interview article from 2022.
Questions should not relate to the person’s hobbies, family or non-work related interests. 20 Minutes is designed to be an informative article that provides technical information.
Each TLT feature article should be an in-depth exploration of a technical aspect in your area of expertise. These articles should include interviews with individuals who are technical and/or industry leaders in their field.
However, feature articles do not necessarily have to be about something new. They also can include a focus on important concepts or information that, while not new, have stood the test of time. Many STLE members are novices to the field of lubrication and need exposure to established ideas, concepts and information. TLT feature articles are an excellent place to discuss new ideas and developments and/or debate current theories or accepted practices.
Often features can be on a highly specific, narrowly defined topic. Identifying and describing a trend in lubrication engineering is an excellent concept for a feature.
Feature articles should be objective in nature and explore all sides of a technical issue. Sharing information and letting the reader make up his or her own mind is a good approach for a TLT feature article. Articles should not focus on specific brands or mention manufacturer names.
TLT feature articles should describe, discuss and debate:
- New ideas, concepts and theories
- Emerging technologies
- New procedures
- Trends relating to the group’s area of expertise
- Issues of current interest.
Sample headlines from past TLT features include:
- “Selecting Rolling Element Bearings for Modern Applications”
- “Clean Grease is not An Oxymoron”
- “Rethinking the Base Stock Equation”
- “Hard-driving Lubrication: The Tribology of Computer Hard Drives”
- “The Future of Sealing Technology”
- “Air Compressor Lubricants: The Next Generation”
- “Nanotribology: The Science of Thinking Small”
- “Gas To Liquid: Transforming the Future of Lubricant Production”
This TLT editorial component is a short monthly survey of STLE’s membership. The idea is to elicit opinions, recommendations and information relating to a topic that most or all of the magazine’s readership can address.
Each month’s Sounding Board is comprised of three or four questions, all of which should address the same topic. The first type is an open-ended (opinion) question that requires a written response. The second type is a quantitative question that can be answered by checking a box, either Yes/No or multiple-choice.
Examples of open-ended questions:
• Please describe the most impressive piece of technology you’ve encountered in the past year.
• Please describe a recurring tribology headache you’ve encountered and the resolution of the problem.
• Briefly describe your organization’s success in establishing and using lubrication-scheduling programs.
• Please describe any techniques or practices that have helped you control contamination of lubricants.
• Please describe a tribological problem that you solved using synthetic lubricants.
• Please describe the greatest benefits to be derived from the development of a multipurpose/universal oil.
Examples of quantitative questions:
• Other than cost, have you noticed any negative effects when using synthetic lubricants? Yes/No
• What is the single greatest source of contamination?
- Enters through seals
- Added through other lubricants
- Internal generation through rust/corrosion
• Do you think dedicating resources to develop multipurpose oils/fluids is a good idea, or should those resources be devoted to other resource projects?
- Develop multipurpose oils
- Devote those resources to other research projects.
Each month TLT publishes a short interview with an STLE member or intriguing person in the lubricants/tribology community. Candidates should have an interesting job or be considered a leading figure in his or her field. Click here to read a 20 Minutes interview article from 2022.
There are no restrictions on who is a good candidate. Subjects can come from any area involving lubrication engineering or tribology—manufacturers, engineers, sales/marketing personnel, academicians, researchers, search-firm executives or industry leaders.
The idea is to find an engaging person and get the candidate to discuss the technical aspects of their work. The candidate will have final approval of the content as well.
Questions and answers should not relate to the person’s hobbies, family or non-work related interests. 20 Minutes is designed to be an informative article that provides technical information.
We are looking for candidates for the 2026 TLT editorial calendar. Are you interested in being featured in TLT’s 20 Minutes interview article? If so, please complete the form and questionnaire below for a possible opportunity to be featured. We will contact you if you've been accepted for publication.