06-07 Eastern New England Society of Plastics Engineers/UML Plastics Engineering Seminar Series
2006-2007 UMass Lowell Plastics Engineering Seminar Series
Sponsored by the
UML - Ball Hall Room 214
Seminars are held at 4:30 pm on the last Wednesday of the month in the Department of Plastics Engineering, Ball Hall, Room 214. Refreshments are served. This academic year's dates and topics are listed below. Click here for directions.
October 2, 2006
"Template Directed Assembly of Nano Scale Elements"
Professor Ahmed Busnaina, Director of the NSF Nanoscale Science and
Northeastern University,
November 1, 2006
“New Composite Processing Technologies”
Vincent Lanning, Operations Leader
GE Advanced Materials,
November 15, 2006
“How Moldflow and its Customers are Thriving in an Evolving Plastics Industry”
A. Roland Thomas,
Moldflow Corporation,
January 31, 2007
"The Significance of Plastics in the World Today"
Dr. Dieter Freitag, Chief Technology Officer
Polymer Technologies Group, Triton Systems, Inc.,
February 21, 2007
4:30 PM
"How Advanced Plastics Materials Relate to the Development of New
Medical Devices"
Larry Acquarulo, President and Chief Executive Officer
Foster Corporation, Putnam CN
6:00 PM
"Family Night" – Complimentary pizza and soft drinks
Barbara Bennett, Education and Program Coordinator
National Plastics Center, Leominster, MA 01453
March 21, 2007
“Recent Trends and Developments in Twin Screw Processing”
Stuart Kapp, Director of Sales
American Leistritz Corporation,
April 25, 2007
“Recent Advances in Reinforcing and Toughening Polymeric Materials”
Dr. Alan Lesser, Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering
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