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Plastics Injection Molding Courses

IT 110   Plastics Mold Design I   3-0-3:  Covers the fundamentals of injection mold design and function.   Topics include: shrinkage allowances, gate locations, cooling, runner balancing, stripper plates, slide molds, two and three plate designs as well as molding machine considerations.  Students will design a complete a mold from scratch.   Hands on examination of parts, molds, and drawings are featured as well as CAD demos and tours.   Familiarity with blue print reading is required.

IT 112   Plastics Materials   4-0-4:  An overview of all fundamental aspects of materials as they apply to processing.  Topics will include: raw materials, polymer synthesis and methods, bonding, classifications, deformation and time-dependent behavior, physical properties, fabrication and processing, compounding and fiber- reinforced plastics, extrusion and injection molding, plastic forms and thermoforming,  welding, machining and adhesive bonding of plastics, and plastics products, waste disposal and recycling.

IT 114   Plastics Processes I   2-2-3:  An overview of commonly used commercial plastics processes.  Plastics materials are addressed including material types, additives, polymer flow, and physical and mechanical properties.  The injection molding process is emphasized, covering primary and peripheral machinery and equipment, molding variables, fundamental processing, and cause and effect relationships between molding parameters and the molded part.  Lectures are reinforced with hands-on laboratory experiments.

IT 214   Plastics Processes II   2-2-3:  Reinforces and builds on Processes I.  Emphasis is on developing process control for highly repeatable molding.  Other specialty applications of injection molding are discussed.  Lectures are reinforced with hands-on laboratory experiments.

EN 130 Advanced Writing and Readings in Plastics   3-0-3:  An advanced writing and reading course, which is tailored to the needs of the plastics program.  The course has a seminar or workshop format  to facilitate intensive instruction in reading and writing for plastics.

MN 125   Statistical Process Control   2-2-3:  Provides students with a thorough understanding of how principles of statistics are applied to  quality in manufacturing.  Control charting for variables and attributes will be covered as well as descriptive statistics and an overview of design of experiments.

TE 350  Computer Applications in Plastics   2-2-3:  A survey course of all of the most commonly used software for technical communications in the plastics manufacturing environment.  Software packages reviewed will include Microsoft windows, word and excel, outlook, access, power point and project.  An introduction to 3D CAD capabilities through Product View (Pro-Engineer) is presented.  Students will create documents, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations.  This knowledge will be utilized to transfer information via electronic medium.  Lectures, interactive learning, and demonstrations will be employed.  Laboratory exercises will be required.