Start and Finish at: Penn State Erie

This major is designed to prepare graduates for careers as engineering technicians in the plastics industry. Graduates are qualified for positions requiring setting up and operating plastics processing equipment, troubleshooting processing problems, production line management, technical service, and support.

The curriculum provides training in applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, fundamentals of the chemical and physical properties of plastics materials and their processing characteristics, quality control, and technical communications. The processing component of the curriculum emphasizes injection molding. Students will receive extensive "hands-on" experience in the college's state-of-the-art processing laboratory, learning the fundamental principles of operating equipment currently utilized in the plastics industry. They will also gain an understanding of how the various mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical functions of processing machinery work together to form a plastic product.

Graduates of this program may qualify for admission to the baccalaureate degree program in Plastics Engineering Technology offered at Penn State's Behrend College.

For more information about this program, contact the campus of interest to you.

*This program is accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

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