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    School of Engineering
    5101 Jordan Road
    Erie, PA  16563-1701

    Office: REDC 213N
    Phone: (814) 898-6482
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    Email: jpb7@psu.edu

John P. Beaumont
Biography

Mr. John Beaumont serves as program chair for the Plastics Engineering Technology program. Mr. Beaumont received his B.S. in Plastics Technology in 1976 and the M.S. in Plastics Engineering in 1994 from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA. Mr. Beaumont joined the Penn State Behrend faculty in 1989.

Prior to joining Penn State Behrend Mr. Beaumont held positions as a research engineer at General Tire and Rubber Company, Project Engineer at Rowland, Engineering Manager at Ciba Vison Corp. and Technical Manager for Moldflow Inc.’s US operations.
In 1992 Mr. Beaumont founded the Plastics CAE Center which trains industry professionals in the use of computer simulation technologies used develop plastic product, tooling and processes.   

Mr. Beaumont founded Beaumont Technologies, Inc. in 1998, which focuses on the design and development of hot and cold runner technologies including his patented MeltFlipper®, MAXTM and iMARCTM technologies.  He is also the author of “Runner & Gating Design Handbook”, co-author of “Successful Injection Molding”, and a contributing author to “Injection Molding Handbook”. Mr. Beaumont is a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers and past Chair of the IMD Board of Directors.                                      
    
Membership in professional and learned societies

Society of Plastics Engineers

Honors or awards for scholarship or professional activity

May 2007 – Elected Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers

Aug. 2006 Plastics Technology Magazine cited Beaumont Technology Inc. as presenting one of the top three new technologies (iMARC, in-Mold Adjustable Rheological Control) introduced at the 2006 National Plastics Exposition (among 2000 companies), Aug. 2006

Nominated, Council of Fellows Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006.

Best Paper Award, for paper titled “Controlling balanced molding through new hot runner manifold designs,” with K. Boell, Mold Making Division, Society of Plastics Engineers (ANTEC), Dallas, TX, 2001. 

Awarded “Engineer of the Year Award,” by the Injection Molding Division, Society of Plastics Engineers, 2001.

Awarded “Behrend College Council of Fellows Excellence in Outreach and Service Award,” 2000.

Awarded “Society of Plastics Engineers Outstanding Member Award,” by the Erie Engineering Council, February 25, 2000.

Nominated for the Annual Penn State Faculty Outreach Award, 1998, 1999.

Special Recognition Award, Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PENNTAP). May 11, 1999.

“Division Chair Award,” Injection Molding Division of Society of Plastics Engineers, May 1999.

Nominated for the 1999 Penn State University Council of Fellows Faculty Research Award.

“Man of the Year” Award, Northwest Pennsylvania Society of Plastics Engineers, December 1999.

“Best Paper Award” for paper titled “Mold filling imbalances in geometrically balanced runner systems.”  Injection Molding Division of The Society of Plastics Engineers, 1998 ANTEC, Atlanta.

“Technical Program Chair Award” by the Injection Molding Division, Society of Plastics Engineers, in recognition for being Injection Molding Division Technical Program Chair 1996.

“Provost’s Award for Collaborative Instruction and Curricular Innovation,” for work on the reorganized introduction to engineering design course (E G 050), with Kathryn Holliday-Darr, Jack Young, William Lasher, Ralph Ford, and Edward Evans, Jr., 1995.

Chairman's Award for best technical paper, “Use of Flow Analysis for Predicting Flash and Clamp Tonnage,” Thermoset Division, Society of Plastics Engineers 47th Annual Technical Conference, New York, NY, May 4, 1989.