Polymer Manufacturing and Processing

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"a live satellite broadcast"

You and members of your organization are invited to participate in a live satellite broadcast by the University of Maryland titled: Polymer Manufacturing and Processing presented by the Instructional Television System on September 7, September 14 and September 21, 1995.

Course Features:

Introduction to general principles of polymer science with an emphasis on polymer blends and compatibilized polymer mixtures
Characterization of polymer mixtures, blends and morphology
Fundamentals of polymer flow in an extruder
Principals for screw design in a Corotating Twin Screw Extruder

Intended Audience:

This course is for machine operators, lab technicians, polymer engineers, people with Chemical, Materials, and Mechanical Engineering degrees who are now involved in the polymer industry.

Enrollment:

This 3 day seminar will be broadcast live via satellite on the National Technological University (NTU) Network in North America only and in the Baltimore/Washinton metropolitan area, on the ITV network (See list below). To participate in this seminar your organization must be a member of NTU or ITV. To find out if your organization is a member of NTU or ITV, please e-mail us at itv@eng.umd.edu or call us at (301)-405-4905 and tell us the name and address of your organization. When we receive that information, we will e-mail you the details about how you can participate in this seminar.

If you live in the Baltimore or Washington DC Metropolitan area you can view this conference at one of the following remote sites only if you are an employee of the organizations. If your organization is not listed below, we invite you to be part of the live studio audience at ITV at the University of Maryland, College Park.: Bureau of the Census; Department of Defense, Fort Meade/FANX; Fort Ritchie; General Accounting Office; Goddard Space Flight Center; Loral; Naval Research Lab; Patuxant River Naval Air Station; SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation); Social Security Administration

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Presenters:
Robert M. Briber, Ph.D., is an assistant Professor of Materials and Nuclear Engineering and an expert in the areas of polymer physics, polymer characterization and polymer morphology. Dr. Briber is a former staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in Polymer Science and Engineering.
David Bigio, Ph.D., is an associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering involved in the area of Polymer Processing and Mixing for the past 10 years. Dr. Bigio has established the Polymer Processing Laboratory which is engaged in research dedicated to quantification of mixing as a basis for extruder performance evaluation. Ph.D. from MIT.

Polymer Manufacturing and Processing

"a live satellite broadcast"

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