Chemistry Overview

	B.S. - Chemistry, Northern Kentucky University M.S. - Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cincinnati Ph.D. - Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cincinnati
	Research and Development

Ashraf: "I'm a synthetic polymer chemist and what it means is that, basically in my job I synthesize the materials, polymetric materials, and functional polymers and what I mean by polymers is its a series of small molecules that have been bound together to form this chain of material that actually improve the property compared to one molecule. So my job would be to actually synthesize the material and synthesize the function of polymers that can be used in different areas in the company."

Ashraf: "My function as a CRD employee, corporate research division employee, is to basically bring in new ideas into the company and reduce it into practice and pass it on to the technology divisions. And with that, I need to always be kept up as far as with the research that is going around. Using those types of ideas that we gain from outside and also from literature reviews and so forth, we need to come up with new ideas."