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Course Name	Turkish	Plastik Malzeme Bilgisi ve Teknolojisi
	English	Plastics Materials &Technology
Course Code	EUT 314E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Demet Günal Ertaş
Course Objectives		1. Giving information on plastics which gain more importance in industry. 2. Teaching about varieties and properties of the plastics. 3. Giving information about plastic materials and design principles. 4. Teaching about the production methods of the plastics. 5. Giving information about determining the appropriate plastic kind and the production methods for different designs.
Course Description		Polymeric Materials, General characteristics of plastics, The place and importance of plastics in industrial product design, Description of principal types of plastics, thermosets, thermoplastics, commodity plastics, Design Principles for plastics, Production Methods for plastics, Injection molding, extrusion, thermoforming compression and transfer molding, Rotational Molding, Blow Molding, Rolling, Casting, Foams, Joining methods, Composite materials, Reinforced plastics and types of reinforcement.
Course Outcomes		Student, who passed the course satisfactorily can; 1. Learn plastics, 2. Learn the manufacturing and the use of different kinds of plastics answering assorted needs, 3. With the knowledge on engineering features of the composite materials, learn to use them in appropriate places, 4. Learn to design products according to the material characteristics of plastics.
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities
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Textbook
Other References		Lesko, J. (2008). Industrial Design: Materials and Manufacturing Guide, New Jersey:, John Wiley&Sons Inc. Ashby, M. (2011). Material Selection in Mechanical Design. Burlington: Elsevier. Ashby, M., & Johnson K. (2010). Materials And Design: The Art And Science of Material Selection in Product Design. Buston: Elsevier. Boothroyd, G. Dewhurst, P., & Knight, W. (2011). Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis. Campos, C. (2007). Plastic. New York: HarperCollins Fiell, P. & Fiell, C. (2009). Plastic Dreams. Italy: Fiell Publishing Lefteri,C. (2007), Making it Manufacturing Techniques for Production Design. London: Laurence King.

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