Plastics 101
Today’s plastics are exceptional materials that allow automotive engineers to devise exceptional engineering and styling solutions. The American Chemistry Council (ACC) Plastics Automotive Center offers a variety of information to help you enhance your working knowledge of how plastics benefit automotive engineering. You can also learn about recent innovations, as well as meet and share ideas with others interested in automobile engineering and education.
The ACC Automotive Center presents here the course materials for an elementary college-level Plastics 101 course. These curriculum materials were developed by Professors Jon Meckley, and Brian Young at Penn State—Erie, Behrends Campus, and are now being offered as a first level course at the University.
Syllabus
Syllabus
Lectures
Module 3
Tensile fast (.mpeg)
Lesson 1 Polymer Structure (.ppt)
Lesson 2 Morphology (.ppt)
Lesson 3 Viscoelasticity (.ppt)
Lesson 4 Viscosity (.ppt)
Izod abs (.mpeg)
Izod PP (.mpeg)
Module 4
Lesson 1 Material Families 1 (.ppt)
Lesson 2 Material Families 2 (.ppt)
Lesson 3 Sustainability (.ppt)
Module 5
Lesson 1 Additives (.ppt)
Lesson 1 Injection Molding (.pptx)
Lesson 2 Fillers Fibers (.ppt)
Lesson 2 Profile Extrusion (.pptx)
Lesson 3 Extrusion Blow Molding (.pptx)
Lesson 4 Injection Blow Molding (.pptx)
Lesson 5 Thermoforming (.pptx)
Lesson 6 Rotational Molding (.pptx)
Pressure Forming (.wmv)
Vacuum Forming (.wmv)
Assignments
Assignments
Assignment 1 General Plastics (.doc)
Assignment 2 General Plastics (.doc)
Assignment 3 General Plastics (.doc)
Assignment 4 General Plastics (.doc)
Assignment 4 Solver (.doc)
Assignment 5 General Plastics (.doc)
Assignment 6 General Plastics (.doc)
Assignment 7 General Plastics (.doc)
Assignment 8 General Plastics (.doc)
Assignment 9 General Plastics (.doc)
Assignment 10 General Plastics (.doc)
Example Assignment 3 General Plastics (.doc)
Example Assignment 7 General Plastics (.doc)
Report Format (.doc)
Quizzes and Exams
Quizzes
Question 1 (.doc)
Question 2 (.doc)
Question 3 (.doc)
Question 4 (.doc)
Question 5 (.doc)
Question 6 (.doc)
Question 7 (.doc)
Question 8 (.doc)
Answers
Quizzes:
Question 1 Answer (.doc)
Question 2 Answer (.doc)
Question 3 Answer (.doc)
Question 4 Answer (.doc)
Question 5 Answer (.doc)
Question 6 Answer (.doc)
Question 7 Answer (.doc)
Question 8 Answer (.doc)
Exams:
Exam 1 Answer (.doc)
Exam 2 Answer (.doc)
Exam 3 Answer (.doc)
Exam 3B Answer (.doc)
Feel free to peruse the materials at your own level of interest and speed. If you are interested in taking the course for college credits contact the Adult Education/Extension Division at Penn State – Erie.
To see what the car designers of tomorrow are thinking about after THEY have taken the basics in Plastics 101, watch the College for Creative Studies Presents “Cars of Tomorrow” — Student designers of tomorrow are creating remarkable plastics-intensive vehicle concept cars today. Watch this 3 minute video to learn more.