Symposium Support: The Polymer Science of Everyday Thing. National ACS Meeting, Boston, MA, August 18-20, 2007.

“日常事物的聚合物科学”研讨会和研讨会的目的是解释人们每天遇到和使用的东西是如何依赖于聚合物科学的。科学家和教师听到新发明或新产品时往往会感到兴奋，但可能不会停下来思考一些常见的事情，例如阿司匹林和泰诺的控释过程是如何工作的，绷带是由什么制成的，聚合物材料制成的植入物涉及哪些问题。尿布和导尿管呢联合研讨会和讲习班的独特之处在于，通过教师和科学家，将聚合物科学中这些主题的教育推广扩展到教师和科学家，重点放在三个远程讲习班学习设施上。因此，本次研讨会和研讨会满足了这些需求，同时加强了高分子科学领域的教育，提高了教学专业性。本次研讨会的科学价值在于解释医疗和保健应用中聚合物领域聚合物材料的组成和性能的基本方法。 更广泛的影响来自于博士的高出勤率。专业人士（学术界、工业界、政府），他们对医疗应用中的聚合物要求和最新技术水平感兴趣。这些信息通常会影响研究项目的进程或激发课程中包含的相关示例。 随着K-12远程研讨会，波士顿，阿克伦，凤凰城和ICI网站将被利用，涉及当地学区的交流论坛邀请K-12教师。因此，就K-12教师而言，演示文稿的杠杆率至少为3，而就受影响的学生而言，杠杆率相应较高。

COMBINED TECHNICAL AND NON-TECHNICAL ABSTRACT The goal of the "The Polymer Science of Everyday Things" symposium and workshop is to explain how things that people encounter and use everyday depend on polymer science for their ubiquity. Scientists and teachers hear and are often excited about new inventions or products but may not stop to think about common things, such as how controlled release processes for aspirin and Tylenol work, what are bandages made from, what issues are involved in implants made of polymeric materials....and what about diapers and catheters? The unique feature of the combined symposium and workshop consists of extending educational outreach on these topics in polymer science to teachers and scientists, by teachers and scientists, with substantial emphasis on three remote-site workshop learning facilities. Thus, this symposium and workshop fulfill these needs while enhancing education in the field of polymer science and enhancing teaching professionalism. The scientific merit of this symposium lies in the fundamental approach taken in explaining the composition and properties of polymeric materials in the area of polymers in medical and health care applications. Broader impacts stem from a high attendance of Ph. D. professionals (academic, industry, government), who are interested in requirements for polymers in medical applications and insight into the state-of-the-art. This information often influences the course of research projects or inspires relevant examples for inclusion in courses. With the K-12 Long Distance Workshop, Boston, Akron, Phoenix, and ICI-sites will be utilized that involve local school districts' communication forums for inviting K-12 teachers. Thus, the presentations are leveraged by a factor of at least three in terms of K-12 teachers and a correspondingly higher factor in terms of students impacted.