Subject: Polymer Satellite Video Conf.: "Polymer Manufacturing & Processing"

From: [email-masked] (Glenn M Brown Jr)
Date: 30 Aug 1995 12:00:56 -0400

You and members of your organization are invited
to participate in a live satellite broadcast titled:
"Polymer Manufacturing and Processing"

presented by the University of Maryland 
Instructional Television System on September 7, September 14
and September 21, 1995

For information about this seminar, you can e-mail us at 
[email-masked]  or call us at (301)-405-4905

Also check out our cool web pages at 
http://www.polymers.com/polylink/sponsors/s1.html

Enrollment:
This 3 day seminar will be broadcast live via satellite on
 the National Technological University (NTU) Network. 
 (Seminar Code MC95090704).
 To participate in this seminar your organization must be a
 member of NTU.  A list of NTU sites is included at the end 
of this post. If you have questions about NTU 
registration/membership, please call (303) 495-6400.

SEMINAR DESCRIPTION:  From time to time in applied science,
there is a condition where the technology greatly lags the
practice, we are such a nexus in the injection molding field. 
The nature of the industry has drastically changed, but the
content of the published research has not.  Over the past 5-7
years in the plastics field, product performance and
properties have been achieved by blending, alloying and
reactive compounding, rather than the creation of new
polymers.  One reason for the shift is that any new product
requires an entire vertical chain of suppliers and customers
in order to bring the product to market.  This process is too
expensive and time consuming.  Furthermore, the new polymers
may require more complex architecture in order to satisfy the
performance requirements.  There is an inverse relationship
between polymer complexity and recyclability.
    It is more incumbent upon the involved personnel - from
the machine operator to the process design engineer - to
understand the complex relationship between the chemistry of
the polymer, the rheology of the polymer system, the specific
mixing process and the final screw design and operating
conditions.
    This series of seminars will provide the building blocks for
a basic understanding the various aspects of polymer processing.
Case studies will demonstrate how these principles assist in
understanding the problems and finding the solutions.

BENEFITS:  You will:

*   Be introduced to general principles of polymer science with
    an emphasis on polymer blends and compatibilized polymer mixtures
*   Understand the issues in characterizing polymer
    mixtures and blends
*   Understand the fundamentals to polymer flow in an extruder
*   Understand the 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.

PRESENTERS:   Robert M. Briber, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor
of Materials and Nuclear Engineering.  Prior to coming to the
University of Maryland, Dr. Briber was a staff scientist at
the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  Dr.
Briber is an expert in the areas of polymer physics, polymer
characterization and polymer morphology.  He received his Ph.D.
>from  the University of Massachusetts in Polymer Science and
Engineering in 1984.
David Bigio, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering.  He has been involved in the area of Polymer
Processing and Mixing for the past 10 years since receiving
his Ph.D. from MIT.  Since coming to the University of
Maryland at College Park, he has established the Polymer
Processing Laboratory which is engaged in research dedicated
to quantification of mixing as a basis for extruder
performance evaluation.  The concept has been applied to
various polymer processes like reactive extrusion,
devolitalization, and blend compatibilization for both
individual companies and the Polymer Mixing Program - an
Industrial Partnership.

Enrollment:
This 3 day seminar will be broadcast live via satellite on 
the National Technological University (NTU) Network in the 
United States, Southern Canada and Northern Mexico.
(Seminar Code  MC95090704).
To participate in this seminar your organization must be a 
member of NTU.  A list of NTU sites is included with this 
post. If you have questions about NTU 
registration/membership, please call (303) 495-6400.

*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 organization:

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 Admn.

*If you are an employee or member of the following
organizations, you are member of the NTU Network
and your organization has the capability to receive this 
broadcast.  Contact your training office and ask for the 
NTU Site Coordinator or call NTU at (303)495-6400.

Participating Organizations:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
Aeroquip Corporation
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
ALCOA
Alliance for Higher Education
Allied Signal Aerospace Company
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
AMP Incorporated
Analog Devices, Inc.
Applied Research Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory
ARINC
Armco Steel Co., L.P.
Army Research Laboratory
AT & T
AT & T Global Information Solutions
AXIOHM IPB
Bellcore
BNR Inc.
Boeing Defense and Space Group
Bull Electronics
Burle Industries Inc.
Burr-Brown Corporation
Colorado Memory Systems
Computing Devices International
datotek, An AT & T Company
David Sarnoff Research Center
Deere & Company
Detroit Diesel Corporation
Digital Communications Associates, Inc.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Eastman Chemical Company
Eastman Kodak Company
Eaton Corporation
Eaton Cutler-Hammer
EG & G Rocky Flats
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Electronic Data Systems Corporation
E-Systems, Inc.
Ericsson GE Mobile Communications
Evans & Sutherland
Extended Systems, Inc.
Exxon Corporation
GBCS Education & Training
General Electric Company
General Instrument Corporation
Glenayre Electronics Corporation
GM Saginaw Steering
Grass Valley Group
GTE Corporation
Hamilton Standard
Harris Corporation
Hewlett-Packard Company
Honeywell, Inc.
HRB Systems
Hughes Missile Systems Company
IBM
Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
Intel Corporation
Internal Revenue Service
IOMEGA Corporation
John Deere Dubuque Works
K & L Microwave
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
Lake Shore, Inc.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LEXIS-NEXIS
Lexmark International, Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Loral Federal Systems Company
Loral Space Information Systems Company
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Magnavox Electro-Optical Systems Company
Magnavox Electronic Systems Company
Mason & Hanger
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace-East
Metrum Information Storage
Michigan Information Technology Network, Inc.
Micron Technology, Inc.
Middle Georgia Technology Development Center
Milliken & Company
The MITRE Corporation
Motorola, Inc.
Naval Air Development Center
Naval Air Engineering Center
Naval Air Systems Command
Naval Air Warfare Center
Naval Research Laboratory
Naval Surface Warfare Center
NASA
National Semiconductor Corporation
Noise Cancellation Technologies
Occidental Chemical Corporation
Pacific Bell
Pacific Tustin
Polaroid Corporation
Prince Corporation
PSE & G Nuclear Training Center
Quantum Corporation
RDL Inc.
Rockwell International Corporation
ROLM Company
Sandia National Laboratories
Santa Barbara Research Center
Schuller International, Inc.
Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.
Symbios Logic, Inc.
Tektronics Consolidated
Texas Instruments, Inc.
3M Company
The Travelers Insurance Company
U.S. West Advanced Technologies, Inc.
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Air Force Academy
U.S. Army
U.S. Bureau of Mines
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Mine Safety & Health Admistration
U.S. Navy
US Signal Corporation
Westinghouse Electronic Corporation
Whirlpool Corporation
Xerox Corporation
Zenith Data Systems