Class Specific
These are the four main plastics processing variables.
What are temperature, pressure, cooling rate, and velocity?
This residence hall is the designated on-campus housing for engineering majors at Behrend.
What is Niagara Hall?
What is the full chemical name of PBT.
What is polybutylene terephthalate?
This brand is the most common type of injection molding machine found in the Behrend plastics lab.
What is Arburg?
This is the only professor who prefers you call them by their first name.
Who is Dr. Xiaoshi Zhang?
These two types of plastics float in water.
What is PP and PE?
This is the name of the treacherous path that overlooks the gorge.
What is the Devil's Backbone?
This plastic material often relies on heavy loading of plasticizers, more than any other.
What is PVC?
This is the only major plastics manufacturing process not available in the lab.
What is rotational molding?
This professor was recently awarded for Excellence in Academic Advising.
Who is BY?
What is Bakelite?
To the nearest hundred, this is the number of students currently enrolled at Penn State Behrend.
What is 4,700?
This thermal characterization technique can operate at over 2,000K/s.
What is flash or fast scanning calorimetry?
This is the brand name of the vertical injection molding machine.
Dr. Mendes can be found in the 213 office with this letter.
What is L?
This is the number one rule for plastics design.
What is maintain nominal wall thickness?
A major overhaul of this Behrend building was recently completed, making it the newest renovated facility for students and faculty.
What is Senate?
This form of polymer behavior describes a structure where the side groups are arranged on alternating sides of the polymer backbone.
What is syndiotacticity?
This building in the Science complex was home to the second plastics lab.
What is Fasenmyer?
These two factors are important in setting the mold safety.
What is low mold pressure and clamp-up position?
These are the names of all of the Science Buildings (10). Double points if you get the extra.
What is Prischak, Benson, Roche, Witowski, Zurn, Nick, Fasenmyer, Yahn Planetarium, Hammermill, OBS?
(BONUS) What is Mehalso Observatory?
This filler creates a pearlescent effect in polyolefin materials.
What is Mica?
The Behrend plastics lab boasts this number of sqft.
What is 10,500 sqft?
This classic song is played to signal the end of BY's lectures.