{"id":39,"date":"2017-03-15T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/?p=39"},"modified":"2017-03-15T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T20:31:00","slug":"plastics-4-0-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/2017\/03\/15\/plastics-4-0-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastics 4.0 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 23,\u00a0UML held the Plastics 4.0 event at the Saab\u00a0to honor emeritus faculty <b>Steve Orroth, Aldo Crugnola,\u00a0Nick Schott, Amad Tayebi,\u00a0Steve Grossman, &amp; Bob Malloy<\/b> who together\u00a0provided\u00a0255 years of service! <\/b>It was another truly great plastics event as featured on the jumbo Tron at the UML-BU hockey game at the Tsongas Arena.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/03\/Plastics4-0-Jumbotron-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/03\/Plastics4-0-Jumbotron-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/03\/Plastics4-0-Jumbotron-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/03\/Plastics4-0-Jumbotron-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/03\/Plastics4-0-Jumbotron-358x300.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Plastics Engineering program is doing well &#8211; there are 285 students in our undergraduate program, perhaps an all-time high. Interest among employers remains high. And the best is yet to come, for the future enfolding before us is bright indeed. UMass Lowell Plastics has a leading role in emerging areas that we\u2019re working on now \u2013 including green bio and biodegradable plastics, nano materials, flexible electronics, smart textiles, medical devices, high performance composites, recycling plastics and automated manufacturing. We thank the emeritus faculty for their past and ongoing contributions!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 23,\u00a0UML held the Plastics 4.0 event at the Saab\u00a0to honor emeritus faculty Steve Orroth, Aldo Crugnola,\u00a0Nick Schott, Amad Tayebi,\u00a0Steve Grossman, &amp; Bob Malloy who together\u00a0provided\u00a0255 years of service! It was another truly great plastics event as featured on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/2017\/03\/15\/plastics-4-0-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/plastics-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}