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Philadelphia University School of Engineering & Textiles Brian R. George, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Textile Engineering 4201 Henry Avenue Philadelphia PA 19144 Phone: 215-951-2782 Fax: 215-951-2651 Email: georgeb@philau.edu university website: http://www.philau.edu/ personal website: http://faculty.philau.edu/georgeb/

Educational, Research, and Facilities Statement:

The School of Engineering & Textiles at Philadelphia University offers undergraduate degrees in Industrial & Systems Engineering; Engineering, with a minor in Textile Engineering, Textile Technology, Textile Design, Fashion Design, and Fashion Industry Management. The School also offers MS degrees in Textile Engineering, Textile Design, and Fashion & Apparel Studies, as well as a Ph.D. in Textile Engineering. Continuing education courses in textiles are also offered, and courses can be tailored to suit the needs of clients, and can be taught at Philadelphia University or off campus. The nonwovens laboratory is set up in a modular fashion and contains carding, air laid, wet laid, thermal bonding, latex bonding, and needlepunching equipment. The Grundy Product Evaluation lab contains a full range of textile physical, mechanical, and chemical property evaluation equipment, as well as image analysis equipment. The School also has printing facilities, including several digital ink jet printers, weaving, knitting, composites, and apparel laboratories. The School is willing to work with industry on research and trial/small production runs. Philadelphia University is a member of the National Textile Center and contains the Laboratory for Engineered Human Protection, a research initiative centered on the development of more sophisticated and effective protective-garment systems.

Academic Research Facilities Equipment

• Air-Lay Equipment, Pilot or Full-Scale
  • 36 inch wide Rando Webber
• Apparel Mfg. - Sewing Machines, Layout Tables, Etc.
  • sewing machines, layout tables, automated cutting table, pattern making
• Calenders for Point or Overall Bonding
  • 20 inch wide Kleinewefers calender set up for overall bonding with cotton rolls
• Carding Equipment, Pilot or Full-Scale
  • 36 inch Whitin roller top card with take up drum and 24 inch wide crosslapper
  • 8 inch wide Davis & Furber roller top lab card
• Comfort Evaluation
  • Kawabata Evaluation System for measuring fabric mechanical properties associated with “hand”
  • SDL Sweating Guarded Hot Plate and Kawabata Thermo-Labo (small guarded hot plate) for measuring thermal conductivity
• Dryers, Thru-Air, I-R, Etc.
  • 18 inch wide Tsuji Senki Kogyo through air oven
• Dyeing Equipment
  • Ahiba sample dyer for fibers and yarns
  • Werner Mathis lab scale fabric dyer - 14 inch wide dye jig
• Environmental Testing Equipment
  • Fume fading, or Oxides of Nitrogen evaluation equipment
  • Q-Sun 1000, Xenon light instrument for lightfastness and loss in strength to long-term exposure, etc
• Finishing Equipment
  • 24 inch wide Proctor Schwart padder
• Laboratory Equipment - General Purpose
  • Scanning Electron Microscope with image analysis system
  • 1000 x Stereo Microscope with image analysis software capabilities
  • Several digital cameras
  • Printed fabric line quality analyzer
  • Vibroscope – to measure fiber size
  • Water impact penetration tester
  • Launderometer – accelerated colorfastness to laundering
  • Quickwash Ô Plus – accelerated laundering system can be used to test permanence of treatments. (Simulates laundering in much reduced time)
  • Q-Sun 1000, Xenon light instrument for lightfastness and loss in strength to long-term exposure, etc.
  • Moisture absorption, wicking equipment
• Latex Bonders, Spray, Dip, Print, etc.
  • 24 inch wide Proctor Schwart latex padder
• Needlepunch Equipment
  • 12 inch wide James Hunter needlepunch
• Printing Equipment, Textile
  • Large and small screen printing capabilities, screen printing table
  • 6 digital ink jet printers (acid dye, reactive dye, pigment)
  • Mimaki Engineering: TX1, TX2 textile printers and GP604 garment printer
  • Mutoh Industries: Falcon and Flacon Plus Printers
  • McDermid Colorspan: Displaymaker Fabrijet XII
  • Roland: Hifi Jet
  • Encad: TX-1500
  • HP: Designjet 500
  • Epson: Epson 3000 printers
  • Contax 42 inch large format scanner
  • Wasatch Softrip: Ergosoft Texprint, PraxySoft Compass Pro
  • Colorants - have all ranges of inkjet colorations including, reactive, disperse, acid and textile pigment.

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