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Continuing Education

If you are a professional seeking to enhance your skills without leaving your job, or a part-time student, there are a number of continuing education options open to you:

  • Our unique Distance Learning Program offers you the opportunity to take individual courses or to earn a Distance Masters in Forest Biomaterials without even setting foot on campus.

  • Hands-on Pulp and Paper Basics Workshop, Co-sponsored by North Carolina State University and TAPPI. This hands-on laboratory based workshop will provide a broad overview of Pulping, Bleaching, Chemical Recovery, Recycling, Papermaking and Converting. The 5-day introduction to pulp and paper technology course will consist of presentations in the morning and hands-on laboratory and pilot-plant exercises in the afternoon. Workshop material discussed in the morning will be re-emphasized in lab and pilot plant exercises  covering pulping, bleaching, deinking, and refining for increased understanding and retention. This introductory-level workshop is appropriate for technical and non-technical individuals with a desire for a laboratory focused course to understand and appreciate the basics of pulping, bleaching, recovery, recycling, papermaking and converting operations.

  • Customized In-Mill Pulp and Paper Short Course, A unique opportunity for pulp and paper training for your employees on your mill-site is available. The program can involve classroom type presentations and activities and in-mill hands-on activities or tours, or a combination.   Combining classroom learning with mill-activities has been demonstrated to enhance learning and retention and therefore improve employee effectiveness in managing or operating the company’s specific technology and processes. The actual learning content is developed between the company and the faculty to meet the specific needs of the company.   The faculty has many years of experience in developing lectures and activities to meet the company’s learning objectives.  Courses can range from a 1-day course to a 2-week course as needed. This type of short course can be conducted economically for as little as 5 students.  The objectives, activities, employee backgrounds, course resources and costs are clearly defined prior to the course.  Optionally, the course can be conducted at NCSU, taking advantage of our laboratories and pilot plant paper machine for activities. For additional information contact richard_venditti@ncsu.edu.

  • We offer customized hands-on wood products short courses that typically last 2 to 5 days and are ideal for engineers and other college graduates who are entering the wood products field for the first time or broadening their job responsibilities. Available courses cover a wide range of topics, including quality control, in-plant drying, saw design and sawing accuracy, management and supervisor development, excellence in wood products manufacturing and more.

  • Evening classes offered at NC State include a number of Forest Biomaterials courses.

  • NC State’s Credit Programs and Summer Sessions curriculum for lifelong learners includes Forest Biomaterials options.