During the senior year, students are required to take three Technical Electives. Students can select a course from the course list below. Some courses are available only when there is sufficient demand. As an alternative, students can take an upper level technical course offered by another Francis College of Engineering department if it is approved by the Plastics Engineering chairperson and the student's advisor. Plastics Engineering students doing a minor in Business Administration should take PLAS.5370, PLAS.5400 or PLAS.5900 for their Technical Elective.

• PLAS.5020 Medical Device Development Regulation
• PLAS.5090 Plastics Processing Theory I
• PLAS.5110 Polymer Blends
• PLAS.5120 Foams
• PLAS.5130 New Plastics Materials
• PLAS.5140 Statistics for Six Sigma
• PLAS.5150 Lean Plastics Manufacturing
• PLAS.5210 Polymers in Sports
• PLAS.5240 Process Analysis, Instrument and Control
• PLAS.5250 Synthetic Fibers: Processing-Structure-Properties
• PLAS.5320 Adhesives and Adhesion
• PLAS.5330 Green Coatings Science and Technology I
• PLAS.5340 Coatings Science and Technology II
• PLAS.5350 Rubber Technology
• PLAS.5370 Business Law for Engineers
• PLAS.5400 Commercial Development of Plastics
• PLAS.5420 Colloidal Nanoscience and Nanoscale Engineering
• PLAS.5450 Additives for Polymer Materials
• PLAS.5470 Materials for Renewable Energy and Sustainability
• PLAS.5490 Product Design for Elastomers
• PLAS.5500 Processing with Elastomers
• PLAS.5510 Extrusion Die Design
• PLAS.5520 Machine Design
• PLAS.5530 Medical Device Design I
• PLAS.5540 Medical Device Design II
• PLAS.5500 Processing with Elastomers
• PLAS.5550 Medical Device Processing
• PLAS.5650 Thermosets
• PLAS.5660 Polymer Materials Systems Solution
• PLAS.5750 Biomaterials in Medical Applications
• PLAS.5760 Advanced Mold Design
• PLAS.5790 Problems in Biomaterials Directed Studies
• PLAS.5850 Computer Aided Engineering I
• PLAS.5890 Polymer Nanocomposites
• PLAS.5900 Survey of Intellectual Property
• PLAS.5940 Additive Manufacturing Engineering Fundamental
• PLAS.5950 Thermoplastic Elastomers
• PLAS.5960 Sustainable Polymers and Additives
• PLAS.5970 Plastics and Environment
• PLAS.5990 Rapid Prototyping
• PLAS.6060 Plastics Manufacturing Systems Engineering
• PLAS.6110 Coloration of Engineering Thermoplastics
• PLAS.6180 Structural Product Design
• PLAS.6750 Biomaterials II
• PLAS.6780 New Developments in Polymer Manufacturing
• PLAS.6820 Physical Polymer Science

For more information contact the Department of Plastics Engineering.