Engineering Plastics for Competitive Positioning
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3 DAY LECTURE OFFERED ONCE:
June 20-22, 2016 (CRS# 00.734-011)
8:30am-5:00pm
TUITION: $1350
OVERVIEW
This three-day lecture series will focus on the properties, performance,
processability, and market potential of engineering polymeric materials.
AUDIENCE
Industry professionals involved with the selection of appropriate
engineering resins, including product designers as well as sales and
marketing engineers who want to keep current with the various
competitive materials in the marketplace. It will also appeal to
processing engineers who are responsible for integrating material and
design selection with processing demands, processing technology options,
economic concerns for material costs and the ability to reuse
regrind/recycled material with virgin product.
CONTENT
A brief review of current commodity resins will preface an in-depth
outline of the significant chemistry, properties, and processing
advantages and limitations of the most recent generation of engineering
and high-performance polymers. (Note: No formal education in chemistry
is required to take this seminar). Each material will be discussed for
commercial applicability, competitive positioning, and marketplace
opportunities. Future trends in property enhancement, via
alloying/blending as well as additive technology, will be emphasized.
Materials will be discussed for commercial applicability, competitive
positioning, and marketplace opportunities.
An abbreviated listing of amorphous and crystalline engineering resins and specialty polymers reviewed in this lecture series includes:
- Nylons and acetals
- Acrylics
- Polycarbonates
- Polysulfones
- Polyphenylene ether and sulfides
- Liquid crystal polymers (LCPs)
- Polyimides and amideimide copolymers
- Poly(ketone) derivatives
- Polymer alloys/blends (PA/Bs)
These resin families will be compared to the other engineering polymers; competitive advantages will be stressed and inherent limitations will be discussed for economic alternatives. Representative examples of commercial products will be continuously discussed in order to position each material against other commercial candidates. In addition to the lectures, there will be scheduled demonstrations of advanced testing and polymer characterization techniques.
INSTRUCTOR
Professor Stephen Burke Driscoll