Plastics : Product Design and Process Engineering (Repost)

The intended audience for this book is junior and senior level students in baccalaureate programs in any of the following areas: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Polymer Engineering, Polymer Engineering Technology, and Manufacturing Engineering. The book also will be of value to working engineers who have not had formal courses in polymer technology, and who are interested in a broader background.
At The University of Akron, where the author teaches, courses in polymer science and engineering at the graduate level have been a feature of the University curriculum for many years, and The University is noted as a center for research in these fields. However, only recently have undergraduate polymer design and processing courses been offered to students in mechanical engineering and mechanical engineering technology. This is in belated recognition of the importance of the polymer industry and the need for all mechanical engineers to have more than a passing knowledge of the fundamentals of polymer selection, design, and fabrication processes. A similar situation—either no undergraduate polymer engineering or relatively new programs—exists at many universities in the U.S. and elsewhere. Many community and technical colleges do offer plastics technology programs to their two-year Associates degree students, but these are necessarily at a more introductory level than is intended in this book.