Graduate Student Programs
- Course Descriptions
- Graduate Student Handbook
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The faculty participates in graduate education leading to the master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees through the program in environmental and resource engineering.
Graduate studies reflect the strong trend toward diversification in the industry and offer opportunities for study in a variety of subjects related to the manufacture of pulp and paper. Individual study programs are designed to meet specific personal needs.
An important component of the graduate program is thesis research under direction of a major professor. Much of this research is carried out under the auspices of one of the outstanding research facilities of the world, the Empire State Paper Research Institute (ESPRI), an integral part of the Faculty. Its research activities aim to generate new information regarding the fundamentals, the science, the engineering and the technology of the papermaking process, utilizing advanced techniques such as computer simulation, electron microscopy, specialized spectrophotometry, nuclear magnetic and electron spin resonance and nuclear tracer methods. Recent work has been directed to fundamental investigations of pulping, bleaching, additives, paper recycling, effluent disposal, the papermaking process, the properties of paper, reactions of wood components during mechanical and chemical treatments, the structure of wood and wood fibers, evaporation, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and chemical recovery. Pilot scale equipment in Walters Hall is often used as an integral part of these research programs.
Many research projects are carried out in cooperation with other academic departments. Examples of such projects include a wide ranging study of toxicity of paper industry effluents in cooperation with the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, and a cooperative project on the theoretical and experimental analysis of the mechanical properties of fiber and paper with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Syracuse University. Cooperative studies enable access to the latest equipment in the computer field, including "super" computers.
The faculty enjoys excellent external support in the form of graduate assistantships, fellowships, and grants from ESPRI, the Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation, and other industry sources, as well as a number of government granting agencies.
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