Plastics Training Academy Offers Summer 2008 Courses
The Plastics Training Academy at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, created last year, continues to showcase Penn State Behrend’s 10,500-square-foot plastics processing laboratory to industry professionals.
With the largest academic plastics lab in the country, Penn State Behrend takes advantage of the “off-season” by offering training courses when classes are not in session. The Plastics Training Academy will also deliver company-specific contract workshops and seminars on site; Penn State Behrend instructors have traveled to Texas, Georgia, Alabama and New Jersey to present in-house training.
The Plastics Training Academy operates through Continuing Education at Penn State Behrend. The following workforce development courses round out the 2008 schedule. Advance registration is required seven business days prior to the start of a course.
August
Aug. 12-14: Injection Molding Principles
Aug. 18-20: Injection Molding Troubleshooting
Aug. 19-20: Plastic Material Selection and Troubleshooting
For more information or to register for the workforce development courses, visit plastics.psu.edu.
Injection Molding Conference
Penn State Behrend hosted its second international conference on injection molding, "Injection Molding: Innovation and Emerging Technologies,” in mid-June. The three-day conference featured 24 technical presentations, offered concurrently in the mornings, and hands-on tutorials in the afternoons. Two keynote speakers addressed attendees on Wednesday and Thursday—Rob Neilley, editor-in-chief of Injection Molding Magazine, and William Carteaux, president and CEO of The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., respectively. In addition, all attendees were invited to tour the local Rehrig Pacific Company plant, located at 1738 W. 20th Street in Erie.
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, is a comprehensive residential college offering 33 baccalaureate, six associate, four pre-professional and two graduate degree programs with 22 minors to more than 4,400 students. Focused on providing a student-centered environment, Penn State Behrend is the link that connects its students to a major research and land-grant institution on a campus enriched by more than 110 clubs and organizations, 21 NCAA varsity teams, 19 intramural sports and modern facilities. Penn State Behrend is named as such due to a donation by Mary Behrend, widow of Ernst Behrend, who founded the Hammermill Paper Co. in Erie in 1898. The Behrend family lived on the 400-acre Glenhill Farm, which is the core of the Penn State Behrend campus today. For more information, visit behrend.psu.edu.