Polymer Engineering Articles

James C. Gorham, of Mill Hall, has been chosen by Pennsylvania College of Technology's Student Government Association's as the first Student of the Month of the Fall 2009 semester. Gorham, a senior in the college's four-year plastics and polymer engineering technology major, is the vice president of the Society of Plastics Engineers.

The Penn College Ultimate Frisbee team competed at Gettysburg College this past weekend in the Abe Lincoln Fall Classic, the first-ever tournament for all of the players on this year's squad. Everyone on the team enjoyed a great event that included a victory in one of six games played and a tour of the battlefields and monuments, said Kirk M.

The Society of Plastics Engineers and Pennsylvania College of Technology will host an SPE Extrusion Minitec at the college on Oct. 22. The "mini technical conference" will benefit engineers, operators and managers.

The Plastics Manufacturing Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology ­ partnering with A. Routsis Associates Inc. and Mid-Atlantic Plastics Partners Inc. recently conducted a pilot training program to certify employees in Pennsylvania's plastics industry.

Seven students studying plastics and polymer engineering technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently returned from a study-abroad experience at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. The students studied specialized plastics processing techniques at the university's Polymer Processing Research Centre.

C. Hank White, director of the Plastics Manufacturing Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently accepted the 2009 Society of Plastics Engineers Gold Pinnacle Award on behalf of SPE's Rotational Molding Division. SPE divisions are technical groups organized around a specific process or application in the plastics industry.

Penn College's first group of plastics students to study abroad is in Belfast, Northern Ireland, through July 5. The seven students – Alan J. Tate, Williamsport; James C. Gorham, Mill Hall; Bradley J. Stroup, Mount Pleasant Mills; Ryan L. Newman, New Columbia; John E. Gudonis, Danville; Christopher E. Kohler, South Williamsport; and Brennan B.

The Rotational Molding Center of Excellence at Pennsylvania College of Technology hosted its first Rotational Molding Workshop June 10-11.

Video production developer Thomas F. Speicher, attendingthis week'sInternational Plastics Showcase in Chicago with Christopher J. Leigh, video production coordinator, was interviewed Wednesday by Plastics News the leading source of information for the industry.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's Plastics Manufacturing Center held its 11th Annual Extrusion Seminar & Hands-On Workshop on the college's campus in early June.