Development of an Interdisciplinary Foundational Course in Polymer Chemistry with Accompanying Laboratory for Chemistry Majors, Non-Majors and Industrial Personnel

由于聚合物和聚合物材料在当今社会中的巨大重要性，很大一部分科学家最终在聚合物/塑料行业工作。鉴于这一事实，化学专业和非专业学生正在一个新的跨学科课程中接受高分子化学基础知识的培训，并配有实验室。该课程具有明确的工业导向，并在当地聚合物/塑料公司中广泛宣传，以使工业实验室技术人员受益。在提供课程的实验室部分，一个新的凝胶渗透色谱仪和一个新的动态力学分析仪正在使用沿着与现有的聚合物分析仪器控股。

Due to the enormous importance of polymers and polymeric materials in today's society, a large fraction of scientists ends up working in the polymer/plastics industry. In light of this fact, chemistry majors and non-majors are being trained in the fundamentals of polymer chemistry in a new interdisciplinary course with an accompanying laboratory. The course has a decidedly industrial orientation, and is widely publicized among local polymer/plastics companies, for the benefit of industrial laboratory technicians. In offering the laboratory component of the course, a new Gel Permeation Chromatograph and a new Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer are being used along with existing polymer analysis instrumentation holdings.