Thanks to both for a job well done. Now, all we can do is keep our fingers crossed. We are offering two ERC courses this spring semester. Ogale, Lickfield and Lin. Twenty-three students are enrolled in the two courses, and four more are auditing.
Visitors are always welcome.
We are continuing to make progress in all three of our research thrusts. This month's newsletter highlights Thrust 1. The unit will be adjacent to the film line, so that the x-ray unit can be evaluated on both fiber and film processes. Dr. Rajesh Paradkar is also making significant progress using Raman spectroscopy to monitor the development of structure during fiber and film formation. He has completed a series of trials and proven that a Raman band ratio can be used to qualitatively estimate the orientation, in polypropylene fibers, as a function of processing parameters and distance along the spin line.