Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

	Welcome to the web pages for  MatE 186 "Polymers"
Guess Who?	This course is being taught by Drs. Diaz and Chung.	Supergoo

Spring, 2003

Lecture notes and course related material will be updated periodically. For new additions, please check the revision date listed below.

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Course Syllabus    [PDF]                     Schedule [PDF]
Course Activities  [Lab Manual]            Laboratory Report Writing Guideline [PDF]

Polymer Morphology [A chapter selected from Stephen L. Rosen: Fundamental Principles of Polymeric Materials]

Lecture notes    [Ingredients of Plastics]     [Polymer Additives]    [Extrusion_Injection Molding]    [Blow Molding]    [Compression-Transfer Molding]   [compression-Transfer Molding]  [Rotational Molding]    [Melt Index Test]    [Crystallinity-Melt]    [Crystallinity]    [Liquid Crystal Polymers]    [Environmental Aspects of Polymers]

Lab notes    [Impact Test]    [Impact Test Data]    Impact-Fractured Samples: ABS1     ABS2    PMMA1    PMMA2    Phenolic1    Phenolic 2

Homework  assignments (Chung's)   HW#1    HW#2     HW#3    HW#4

Class quizzes     Q#1     Q#2    Q#3    Quiz#4    Quiz#5

Plant tour: Wednesday, April 2, 2003, Delta Pacific products, Inc. -- Injection Molding Processes (download the flier)

                Wednesday, April 23, 2003 Freetech Plastics --Pressure Forming and Bay Polymers -- Extrusion, Recycling 

                (download the flier)

Meeting with SPE-GGS board members, Thursday, March 20, 2003 (see SPE Calendar) 

                    SPE-GGS Tech-Fair and Education Night: Friday, April 25, 2003 (see SPE Spreadhead) 

Guest lecture: Monday, May 5th (download the flier)                            

Study guide for module examination 2 (download the study guide) 

Web Links to Polymers Fields:

Polymers overview            Plastics.com             Polymers: They are everywhere    Composites overview                    

Polymer Wonderland         Polymers & Liquid Crystals            High Performance Polymers

Polymer industry                Polymers & People        NIST-Polymer Division        Design information

Materials Engineering Links        Material Safety Data Sheet        Polymer Product Information

Polymer Science and Engineering Books

Professional Societies:

Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE)              Local Chapter: Golden Gate Section of SPE

Society for the Advancement of Materials Process Engineering (SAMPE)    

Local Chapter: Northern California Chapter of SAMPE

New ideas or questions?  

Please post your questions to Materials Engineering Discussion Board

Last revision, 05-12-2003

Return to Dr. Chung's home page     

 Contact Information:

Dr. Art Diaz's office: Eng. 173, (408) 924-3944, Email: adiaz@email.sjsu.edu