Polymer Engineering (9841)
Polymer Engineering (9841)
| 321 | POLYMER FLUID MECHANICS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 4600:310 or equivalent. Rheological properties and flow characteristics of polymer fluid systems; non-Newtonian viscosity, viscoelasticity. | ||
| 422 | POLYMER PROCESSING | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 321 and 4600:315 or equivalent. Polymer processing technology. Basic studies of flow in extrusion, molding, and other processing methods. | ||
| 425 | INTRO BLENDING & COMPND POLYM | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 4200:321 or 4600:310 or permission. Nature of polymer blends and compounds and their applications. Preparation and technology using batch and continuous mixers, mixing mechanisms. | ||
| 427 | MOLD DESIGN | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 4200:321 or 4600:310 or permission. Molding methods to manufacture polymeric products. Machinery, materials, molds, equipment, computer-aided design. | ||
| 450 | ENGNRG PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 4600:336 or permission. Introduction to engineering properties and polymer processing. Analyzing mechanical polymer tests in glassy, rubbery, and fluid states. Product design, rheology, rheometry and polymer processing concepts. | ||
| 451 | POLYMER ENGINEERING LABORATORY | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: 4200: 321. Corequisite: 422. Laboratory experiments on the rheological characterization of polymer melts, fabrication of engineering products, structural investigation of polymeric parts. | ||
| 497 | HONORS PROJECT | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: Senior standing in the Honors Program. Individual creative project in mechanical polymer engineering, supervised by faculty member of the department. This course must be designed oriented if used in place of 4700:499. | ||
| 499 | POLYMER ENGR DESIGN PROJECT | 2 credits |
| Corequisiste: 4600:400 or permission of instructor. Analysis and design of mechanical polymer systems. | ||
| 525 | INTRO TO BLNDNG & COMPND POLYM | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Nature of polymer blends and compounds and their applications. Preparation and technology using batch and continuous mixers. Mixing Mechanisms. | ||
| 527 | MOLD DESIGN | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Molding methods to manufacture polymeric products. Machinery, materials, molds, equipment, computer-aided design. | ||
| 550 | ENGR PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Introduction to engineering properties and polymer processing. Analyzing mechanical polymer tests in glassy, rubbery, and fluid states. Product design, rheology, rheometry, and polymer processing concepts. | ||
| 551 | POLYMER ENGINEERING LABORATORY | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Laboratory experiments on the rheological characterization of polymer melts, fabrication of engineering products, structural investigation of polymeric parts. | ||
| 601 | SEM: POLYMER ENGINEERING | 1 credits |
| Presentations of recent research on topics in polymer engineering by internal and external speakers. | ||
| 611 | STR CHAR POLY W/ ELECTRMAG RAD | 2 credits |
| Characterization of orientation, morphology, superstructure in polymers using x-ray, light scattering, birefringence, dichroism. Crystal-lography, unit cell determination. | ||
| 621 | RHEOLOGY OF POLYMER FLUIDS | 3 credits |
| Experimental methods of determination of rheological properties of polymer melts, solutions, elastomers. Structure-flow behavior relationships, viscoelastic fluid theory, application to extrusion, fiber, film processing molding. Structure development in processing. | ||
| 622 | ANALY&DSGN: POLY PROC OPRTNS I | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: 621. Mathematical modeling and engineering design analysis of polymer processing operations including extruder screws, injection molds, dies, fibers, film formation. | ||
| 623 | ANALY&DSG: POLY PROC OPRTNS II | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Basic studies on non-isothermal phenomena in polymer engineering emphasizing crystallization, vitrification, frozen-in orientation and residual stresses, applications, including fiber spinning and film extrusion. | ||
| 631 | ENGR PROPRTS OF SOLID POLYMERS | 2 credits |
| Transitions as a function of polymer structure, optical characteristics, mechanical including ultimate properties, viscoelastic behavior of elastomers and plastics, large strain behavior E emphasis on experimental methods. | ||
| 641 | POLYMERIC MATRLS ENGR SCIENCES | 2 credits |
| Physioco-chemical properties of amorphous and crystalline polymers. Glass transitions, crystallization, molecular orientation and morphology of important commercial polymers, fabricated products and composite materials. | ||
| 650 | BASIC ENGR FOR POLYMR ENGINEER | 3 credits |
| Basic concepts of polymer engineering taught in lecture-laboratory format intended for orientation of new graduate students. | ||
| 651 | POLYMER ENGINEERING LABORATORY | 3 credits |
| Rheological characterization of polymer melts, rubber and plastic extrusion, extrudate swell, injection and compression molding, crystallization behavior, x-ray diffraction, film blowing, impact and tensile testing. | ||
| 661 | POLYMERIZATION REACTOR ENGR | 3 credits |
| Polymerization kinetics, classical reactor design, comparison of polymerization in batch and continuous stirred tank reactors, flow patterns around agitators, tubular reactors, reactor stability. | ||
| 675 | CARBON-POLYMER NANOTECHNOLOGY | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. This course focuses on the fundamental aspects of nanotechnology in general and basic knowledge of polymer/carbon nanoscience and nanotechnology in particular. | ||
| 680 | POLYMER COATINGS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. This course is an introduction to coating science. The synthesis of polymeric binders and pigments used in commodity coatings will be the focus of the first part of the course. The second part of the course will focus on coatings formulation and end-use applications for commodity coatings. | ||
| 699 | MASTERS THESIS | 1-6 credits |
| (May be repeated) Supervised original research in specific area of polymer engineering. | ||
| 712 | RHEO-OPTICS OF POLYMERS | 2 credits |
| Applications of rheo-optical methods as means of determining stress fields in polymeric glasses and fluids during deformation, rheo-optical properties of polymers in glassy, rubbery and fluid states. Theory of dynamic birefringence and its application to mechanical relaxations of amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers, and recent experimental results. | ||
| 715 | ADV CHAR OF FUNCTIONAL POLYMER | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 611, 623 or equivalent (with permission of instructor). This course will focus on the advanced structural and functional property characterization techniques including optical, electrical, magnetic and others. A particular focus will be the influence of the history of polymer processing on these properties. | ||
| 720 | MOLECLR ASPCT OF POLY RHEOLOGY | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: 621 or permission of instructor. Molecular theory for concentrated solutions and melts of flexible homopolymers, molecular rheology of miscible polymer blends, block copolymers, and liquid crystalline polymers. | ||
| 721 | RHEOL & PROC 2-PHASE POLYM SYS | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: 622 or equivalent. Particle-particle interactions, mixing devices and design, theoretical hydrodynamics of suspensions of rigid particles, experimental studies of rheological behavior, phenomenological theories representing suspension behavior, dispersion of droplets to form an emulsion, phase morphology development and rheological properties of blends. | ||
| 722 | ADV MODELLING POLYMER PROCNG | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Modelling of processing operations including extrusion molding, fiber and film processing, computer-aided design. | ||
| 723 | RHEOLOGY & PROC OF ELASTOMERS | 2 credits |
| Interpretation of rheological properties and critical study and analysis of processing operations including behavior in internal mixers, screw extruders, die systems and vulcanization molding. | ||
| 724 | ADV EXTRUSION & COMPOUNDING | 2 credits |
| Principles of operation and flow in single and twin screw extruders, screw design, characteristics of internal mixers, analysis and simulation of flow. | ||
| 725 | CHEM & PROC OF THERMOSETS | 2 credits |
| Prerequisites: 621 or 622, or permission of instructor. Rheological behavior of thermosets, vulcanization of rubbers, time-temperature-transition relationships in thermosets, reaction injection molding, compression/transfer molding, pultrusion. | ||
| 727 | ADVANCED POLYMER RHEOLOGY | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: 621 or equivalent. Second level course in non-linear constitutive equation for viscoelastic, viscoplastic, viscoelastic-plastic polymeric materials. Utility and applicability to polymer processing problems. | ||
| 728 | NUMERCL METHODS IN POLYMR ENGR | 3 credits |
| Prerequisites: 621, 622,623, 631. Basics of generally accepted numerical methods. Numerical problems in polymer solid mechanics and technological applications. Numerical problems in polymer fluid mechanics and polymer processing. Commercial softwares. | ||
| 731 | STRESS ANLY - POLYMERS & COMPO | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: 631. The design of rubber mounts, bearings and sandwich components with demonstration of finite element methods. Classical plates and shells theories with applications to composite structures. | ||
| 745 | LIQUID CRYSTALS | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Structure of low molecular weight and polymeric liquid crystals, characterization, physical properties including optical properties, phase transitions, structure-property relationships, processing of polymeric species. | ||
| 747 | POLYMER COLLOIDS | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Colloidal dispersions, phase stability, aggregation structures, thermodynamics, kinetics of phase transitions in polymer colloids. Emulsion and solution polymerization, organic/inorganic hybrid materials, coating technology. Rheology of colloidal polymers. | ||
| 749 | PHASE TRANS-POLYMER BLND&ALLY | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Elucidating thermodynamics of polymer blends, block copolymers, crystalline/liquid crystalline polymers, and kinetics of phase transitions. Structure development and modeling of reactive polymer blends. | ||
| 761 | INJECT & COMPRESS MOLD FUNDMNT | 2 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. This course provides fundamental knowledge in physical, thermal and rheological properties required for injection and compression molding including theoretical and experimental aspects of various molding processes. | ||
| 770 | POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Develops understanding on synthesis, characterization, processing and properties of polymer nanocomposite materials involving nanoscale fillers in conjunction with thermosetting, thermoplastic, and elastomeric polymer matrices. | ||
| 773 | ADV POLYMER COATING TECHNOLOGY | 2 credits |
| Prerequisites: 641, or equivalent, or permission of instructor. The polymeric binders used in radiation-curable coatings for electronic packaging and waterborne coatings will be stressed. The chemistry of dyes and the coatings science of pigments will be presented. The chemistry of polymer degradation will also be covered. | ||
| 777 | MODELING OF NANOSCALE MATERIAL | 3 credits |
| Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Introduces molecular simulation methods (Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics)and their application to polymer-related materials at the molecular and coarse-grain levels. | ||
| 778 | ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS | 2 credits |
| Prerequisites: 611, 641 or permission of instructor. This course focuses on the recent development of functional polymers for applications as advanced materials and smart devices, which requires the attendant to possess some prior knowledge of polymer science and polymer engineering from such 600 level course(s) as mentioned above. | ||
| 797 | ADV T: POLYMER ENG | 2-3 credits |
| (May be repeated) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Advanced special topics intended for Ph.D. students in polymer engineering. | ||
| 898 | PRELIMINARY RESEARCH | 1-15 credits |
| (May be repeated) Prerequisites: completion of qualifying examination, approval of Student Advisory Committee. Preliminary investigation of Ph.D. dissertation subject. | ||
| 899 | DOCTORAL DISSERTATION | 1-15 credits |
| (May be repeated) Prerequisite: completion of candidacy examination of Student Advisory Committee. Original research by a Ph.D. candidate. | ||
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