Thank you very much for this fantastic course! I greatly appreciate you sharing your hard-earned knowledge with us and I’m excited to test out some of the strategies you and Dr. Leone presented. I think the course was a good balance of lecture and discussion with enough breaks to allow us to digest the information, and I really felt I came away with a lot of new knowledge and ideas. I will be recommending that my company sends more people to this course…..
Dr. Ashleigh McWilliams, Ineos Olefins & Polyolefins-USA, Participant-2022 @ Atlanta, GA, USA
My colleague and I, were pleased to attend your Polymer Failure & Defects course. It was both interesting and informational to learn how simple thermal and rheological methods could be applied to investigate difficult cases related to batch inconsistency and subtle environmental or processing changes. We were also pleased to learn about the newest instrumental developments from Bruker and Netzsch. We look forward to meeting again, so please keep us informed of upcoming course offerings.
Barry Weeks, Wacker Chemical Corp, Participant-2022 @ GA, GA, USA
Thank you for your Plenary lecture “Accidental Discoveries & Business Growth via Thermal Analysis & Rheology”; so Inspiring to all, Enlightening and Engaging at the same time
Attendees @ 48th NATAS Conference-2022, Cleveland, OH, USA
Thank you for doing such a wonderful job and making the Zoom option available. The information presented in the conference was well organized and very helpful. I already see a few ways that I will be able to apply it to my work.
Dr. Kasie Knapper, Scientist, Solvay Specialty Polymers, Participant-2021 @ Atlanta, GA, USA
Many thanks to Dr. Khanna for organizing this great course and Shannon for sharing your expertise on FTIR and Raman. I learned a lot in this course. As a scientist, I know some of these instruments, but I had no idea they could dig out so much information for polymer samples. It was a wonderful experience.
Dr. Shaoyang Liu, Associate Professor, Center for Materials & Manufacturing Sciences, Troy University, Participant-2019 @ Atlanta, GA, USA
Case-Studies and Tricks-of-the-Trade were very interesting. My knowledge of polymers and thermoanalytical methods have drastically improved. I look forward to applying my newly gained knowledge
Colton Jackson, R&D Engineer, CR Bard; a Becton Dickinson company, Participant-2018 @ Atlanta, GA, USA
The course was very broad & comprehensive. I found that I had similar problems in every area presented but no access to the tools necessary to achieve defect resolution. I come away from the class with many contacts to industry experts and contemporaries who will be beneficial to my work along with a broad knowledge of the tools & techniques I need to solve real life problems I could have only guessed before. Great program; I hope to attend many more!
Doug McLendon, Quality Manager/Polymer Chemist, The KW Plastics Companies, Participant-2017 @ Atlanta, GA, USA
I have attended many seminars on test methods and “All Have Failed” to relate these to practical, real-life problems. However, this course was excellent for me as I am in the analytical lab at a manufacturing facility. The experience of presenters was outstanding.
Participant-2016 @ Atlanta, GA, USA
Prior to attending this course, I had never considered that TGA, DSC and DMA could be used to probe both PROCESS and MATERIAL properties; this training was invaluable in exposing the breadth of Opportunities.
Dr. Chris Asemota, Chemical/Polymer Engineer, Valley Industrial Products, Participant-2016 @ Atlanta, GA, USA
This traing delivered more than I expected; plenty of real world problems solved with comprehensive analytical techniques.