UML Plastics 2013

Learn the latest in plastics manufacturing, design and quality control!

Highly effective plastics seminars and hands-on plastics training at UMass Lowell


plastics training

The Plastics Seminars and Workshops at the University of Massachusetts Lowell are highly respected throughout the plastics industry as a proven method of gaining both theoretical and practical information. Hands-on workshops held in state-of-the-art labs supplement classroom instruction and provide unsurpassed technical training applicable to plastics materials, processes, design and quality control. Seminars are taught by world-renowned faculty and industry leaders. The following 1-, 2-, 3-, and 5-day training sessions are available at a number of different times during the year.

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2013 Seminars and Workshops:
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Course Date/Time Course No. Price
Green Plastics Manufacturing:
Introduction to Plastics, Elastomers
and Additives from Renewable Resources

Dr. Ramaswamy Nagarajan
June 17, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.754-011 $625

INJECTION MOLDING

Course Date/Time Course No. Price
Introduction to Injection Molding Simulation
Ana Maria Marin
June 17-18, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.760-011 $925
Injection Molding
Andy Routsis

Injection Molding
Dr. Stephen Johnston
March 11-15, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm

June 17-21, 2013
August 12-16, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.716-002


00.716-011
00.716-021
 
$1495


$1495
Plastic Part Design for Injection Molding
Dr. Robert Malloy and
Dr. Stephen Johnston
June 10-13, 2013
August 5-8, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.725-011
00.725-021
$1345
Injection Mold Design
Steve Thibeault
June 10-12, 2013
August 5-7, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.726-011
00.726-021
$1195
Robust Process Development and Scientific Molding
Suhas Kulkarni
June 13-14, 2013
August 8-9, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.755-011
00.755-021
$1045

EXTRUSION

Course Date/Time Course No. Price
Extrusion
Dr. Carol Barry
July 8-10, 2013
August 5-7, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.728-012
00.728-021
$1195
Extrusion Die Engineering
Dr. John Perdikoulias
July 9-10, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.750-012 $925
Extrusion Coating: Product Design, Processing & Troubleshooting
Thomas Bezigian
July 22-23, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.732-012 $925

MATERIALS

Course Date/Time Course No. Price
Fundamentals of Plastics: Commercial Polymeric Materials
Professor Stephen Burke Driscoll
January 7-9, 2013
June 3-5, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.735-001
00.735-011
$1195
Mechanical, Physical and Rheological Properties of Plastic Materials, Blends and Composites
Dr. Stephen McCarthy
June 3-7, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.723-011 $1495
Polymers in Electrical and Electronic Applications
J. George Drobny
July 15-16, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.740-012
$925

PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Course Date/Time Course No. Price
Industrial Design and Plastic
Product Design

Michael Paloian
March 11-13, 2013
August 12-14, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.758-002
00.758-021
$1195
Engineering Plastics for Competitive Positioning
Professor Stephen Burke Driscoll
June 6-7, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.734-011 $925
Fundamentals of Plastics Testing
Professor Stephen Burke Driscoll
March 11-13, 2013
8:30am-5:00pm
00.748-002 $1195