ETPL 4490 - Senior Design Lab

Credits: 3

An integrative capstone course for the plastics engineering technology curriculum, containing part and process design and society and ethical impacts of the profession. The students will utilize the part and injection mold made in ETPL4470, install on the injection molding machine, and optimize the processing condition using scientific processing methods. The students will utilize all of their past classes to produce an optimum part. They will analyze the data, write up their results, and give a presentation on those results. Additionally, students will examine the societal and ethical impacts of their designs, materials and decisions of the profession. Prereq: ETPL 4470 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 Course/Lab Fee $ General Education Program Course GEP (Capstone)