Stork expert presenting Plastic Material Selection webinar April 22
ONLINE - March 26, 2008
Stork expert Melissa Kurtz is presenting a technical webinar (online seminars) April 22, 2008, on plastic material selection. This informative and relevant presentation, sponsored by ASM International, will be available online at your desktop:
Please join us for an hour-long web seminar sponsored by the Milwaukee Chapter of ASM International (as part of the ASM Online Technical Training Series) and featuring Senior Materials Scientist Melissa Kurtz of Stork Technimet, Inc. (New Berlin, WI). The presentation, titled "Introduction to Plastic Material Selection" will take place on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, from 10:00am to 11:00am CST (New York 11 a.m. / Los Angeles 8 a.m./ London 4 p.m. / Paris 5 p.m.). Registration Fee: $65 (includes handout materials and a CD copy of the recorded session).
Clicking on this link will take you to an online registration page. For questions about registering, purchasing, or accessing this webinar, contact Barbara Tucholke, Ideas By Design, LLC at 414.241.0329. For more information about the presentation content, read the abstract below, or contact Melissa Kurtz at melissa.kurtz@stork.com.
Abstract
Materials selection is fundamental to the success of a new product, design, or application. Today's engineer is faced with a myriad of design considerations, coupled with an extraordinary number of available resin grades when selecting the optimum plastic material candidate for a functional product. The problem lies in fully knowing what will be required of the product in a wide range of use/abuse environments along with understanding the true functional behavior of the polymer. This course will introduce participants to polymers and their characteristics that will ultimately determine their performance in an application. This course will also review considerations in material selection along with real material selection examples.
About the presenter
Melissa L. Kurtz is a Senior Materials Scientist with Stork Technimet, Inc. where she specializes in the deformulation, failure analysis, and material selection of polymers. She has over eight years of experience specifically in the areas of product development and processing. More than four years were spent as a Materials Engineer at Visteon Corporation, a tier one automotive supplier. During that time, she simultaneously received her Master's Degree in Material Science and Engineering at Wayne State University. Her Bachelor's Degree in Material Science and Engineering was obtained while attending the University of Minnesota.