Polymer Engineering

Course: MSE 4554 CRN: 13716

Instructor:	Herve Marand Hahn Hall 2103.
Text:	"Introduction to Physical Polymer Science" by L.H. Sperling, 2nd Edition, Wiley Interscience.
Lectures:	Tuesday, Thursday 2:00 till 3:15 p.m., Holden 212
Class Schedule:	Lectures and Examinations:
Office Hours:	Tuesday 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.; Thursday 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. (Hahn Hall, Room 2103)
Homework Assignments:	Homework will be assigned regularly and must be submitted in a neat, orderly, and timely manner. No late homework will be accepted. Credit will be given for attempting each problem in the assignment, but problems will not be graded individually. Complete solutions will be made available to allow students to check their own work. IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT ALL HOMEWORK PROBLEMS BE ATTEMPTED
Grading:	Mid-Term #1: (20%) Covering Lectures 1 - 6 and Homework Assignments 1 - 3 Review #1 Mid-Term #2: (20%) Covering Lectures 7 - 14 and Homework Assignments 4 - 5 Review #2 Final Exam: (20%) Covering Lectures 9 - 25 and Corresponding Homework Review #3 Project/Paper: (20%) Homework: (20%) If you want to check your grades, please click here
Honor System:	Will Be Seriously Assumed. Any Violation Will be Taken to the Honor Court. All examinations and quizzes are to be taken closed-book. You are not allowed to write equation in the memory of your calculator for in-class examinations.
Lecture Notes:	To view the following pdf files, you need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader on your machine. To down-load a free copy of this software for your machine, surf to Adobe.com Lectures 1 and 2 Introduction and Overview (SP 1,2) (AVAILABLE) Lectures 3 and 4 Molar Masses (SP 3) (AVAILABLE) Lectures 5 and 6 Polymer Synthesis (AVAILABLE) Lectures 7 and 8 Polymer Thermodynamics (SP 4) (AVAILABLE) Lecture 9 and Lecture 10 Amorphous State (SP 5) (AVAILABLE) Lectures 11-13 Crystalline State (SP 6) (AVAILABLE) Lectures 14-16 Glass to Rubber Transition (SP 8) (AVAILABLE) Lectures 17-19 Cross-linked Polymers and Rubber Elasticity (SP 9) Lectures 20-22 Polymer Viscoelasticity (SP 10) Lectures 23-24 Mechanical Behavior of Polymers (SP 11) Lectures 25 Polymer Processing
"Outstanding" Student Demonstrations:	To view the following pdf files, you need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader on your machine. To down-load a free copy of this software for your machine, surf to Adobe.com On Diapers and Thirsty Trees: Polymer Gels by April Williams and Grant Serbousek (AVAILABLE) The Nylon Rope Trick by Leslie Flowers and Dave Streilein (AVAILABLE) The Rubber Carnot Cycle by Kristina Hirsch and Matthew Lamm (AVAILABLE) The Solar Engine by Valerie Binetti, Stacey Sharp and Pamela Tomlin (AVAILABLE) Slime by Tony Salamone and Jeff Maciborsky (AVAILABLE)