Plastics Product Design

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This course introduces the concepts of part design beginning with defining the customer and end-use requirements and moving through the entire design cycle and product application. The following areas are focused on: Material selection, prototyping and solid modeling, product drawing, review of basic design rules, form, fit and function in product application, part quality, relationship of tool design to part design, advanced tooling concepts, part costing and design to cost, end-use factors, and mechanical design with plastics will also be covered. Prerequisite: PET 223 or equivalent polymer science course; ETD 173 or EGR 143