Plastics and Polymer Engineering Technology: Blow Molding Curriculum Development

工程-材料科学（57）这个项目解决了国家需要在吹塑成型的艺术和科学方面教育塑料工程技术人员。具体来说，它解决了宾夕法尼亚理工学院（Penn College）塑料课程的扩展和传播，包括挤压和注射拉伸吹塑技术的实践经验，以及伴随的商业上可行的实验室教育材料。课程开发包括一个重点，大二水平吹塑课程和吹塑教育纳入其他调查和高级课程。通过购买和安装最先进的聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯（PET）拉伸吹塑机，以及制造重要的测试设备-偏振光台来测量产品质量，实验室经验正在建立在现有的挤出吹塑机的基础上。结果包括：1)建立了一个独特的，与国家相关的设施，代表了一个以学术为基础的商业拉伸吹塑课程；2)加强宾夕法尼亚大学的塑料课程，为学生提供更广泛的塑料教育，使他们在市场上更具竞争力，更好地适应不断变化的制造技术世界；3)为中学学生和教师、大专教师和塑料技术人员提供介绍性和高级教育和专业发展机会。

Engineering - Materials Science (57)This project addresses the national need to educate plastics engineering technicians in the art and science of blow molding. Specifically, it addresses the expansion and dissemination of plastics curriculum at Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn College) to include hands-on experiences in extrusion and injection stretch-blow molding technology with accompanying commercially viable laboratory educational materials. Curriculum development includes a focused, sophomore level blow molding course and inclusion of blow molding education within other survey and advanced courses. Laboratory experience is building on an existing extrusion blow molder by purchase and installation of a state-of-the-art polyethylene terephthalate (PET) stretch-blow molder, and fabrication of a vital piece of testing equipment--a polarized light table to measure product quality. Outcomes include: 1) establishment of a unique, nationally-relevant facility representing an academically based, commercial stretch-blow-molding curriculum; 2) enhancement of Penn College's plastics curriculum to offer students broader plastics education, making them more competitive in the marketplace and better able to adapt to a changing world of manufacturing technology; 3) introductory and advanced educational and professional development opportunities for secondary students and teachers, post-secondary faculty, and plastics technicians.