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Assignment 1 Engineering Overview - 5%
Assignment 1 Engineering Overview - 5%
SETG 1233
Dr Farhana Aziz
farhana@petroleum.utm.my
Assignment 1 (5%)
ENGINEERING OVERVIEW
• In your team, find information for the topic assigned from literature
search and interviewing relevant people.
• Each team will be given 10 min to present and 2-3 min for Q&A.
Everyone must present. (see presentation rubric on evaluation)
• Summarise all the points in a 3-4 pages report and submit on 16 Nov
(Tuesday) . Remember to write down all members’ name.
Presentation rubric
❖ He invented Bakelite -
first plastic to hold its
shape after being
heated. Year: 1907
❖Bakelite is an inexpensive,
nonflammable, versatile, and popular
plastic, which marks the beginning of the
modern plastics industry.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
(1863–1944)
The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Baekeland a patent for a "Method of
making insoluble products of phenol and formaldehyde" on December 7, 1909. Producing hard,
compact, insoluble and infusable condensation products of phenols and formaldehyde marked
the beginning of the modern plastics industry.
Assignment 1: Presentation
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