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  Please register on-site.
Registration opens on Sunday, May 4, at 12 Noon.
Registration is located on the third floor of the Midwest Airlines Center.
Engineering Properties & Structure
May 4-5 CMBP Crystallization & Mechanical Behavior of Polymers / Pravin Soni
May 5-6 PPFAPL Plastics Parts Failure Analysis & Product Liability / Vishu Shah
May 5 FPMP Fundamentals of Plastic Materials & Processing / Jean-Michel Charrier
   

Extrusion

May 7-8 PAMR Practical Applications for Melt Rheology in Polymer Processing / Pravin Shah
May 8 CEPP Co-Extrusion: Principles & Practices / Eldridge Mount, III
May 7-8 PEDAP Profile Extrusion Design & Advanced Processing / Daniel Cykana
May 7-8 TSET Twin Screw Extrusion Technology / Adam Dreiblatt
May 5-6 DDEP Die Design Principles for Extrusion of Polymers / Leonard Sansone
   
Injection Molding
May 7-8 IMACA Injection Molding: Advanced Concepts & Analyses / Lawrence Schmidt
Marketing & Management
May 6 LSSP Lean Six Sigma in Polymer Processing / David Bigio
May 5 FPLPP Fundamentals of Patent Law for Plastics Professionals / Robert A. Migliorini
   
Materials
May 7 PPBA Principles of Polymer Blending & Alloying / Donald Witenhafer
   
Product Design & Development
May 5 SPWP *Snap-fits, Press-fits and Welding of Plastics / Jordan Rotheiser
     * There is an additional fee for the required textbook.
May 5-6 MDMB Mold Design & Mold Building Fundamentals / Robert Dealey
   
Expertise Levels

Level I: Assumes the attendee has little or no knowledge of the areas covered.

Level II: Ideal for the attendee with a general knowledge of the subject and professional practice within the areas covered.

Level III: Developed for the participant who has a thorough knowledge of the subject and professional practice of the content covered.

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