Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Polymeric materials, General characteristics of plastics
2	The place and importance of plastics in industrial product design
3	Description of principal types of plastics, thermosets, thermoplastics
4	Commodity plastics
5	Design Rules for plastics
6	Production Methods for plastics
7	Injection molding
8	Extrusion
9	Visit to Factories and Workshops
10	Thermoforming compression and transfer molding
11	Rotational molding
12	Blow molding
13	Rolling. Casting, foams, Joining methods
14	Composite materials, Reinforced plastics and types of reinforcement