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Graduate Degree Programs

Wood Products (W P)

W P 400 Properties of Wood (2) Chemical Structure and Mechanical Properties of Wood Composites.
Effective: Summer 2003 Ending: Fall 2013
Prerequisite: W P 200W  

W P 411 Wood-Environmental Relationships (4) Material composition and structure; basic and derived physical properties; moisture movement in wood; methods and techniques of drying wood.
Effective: Spring 2001 Ending: Fall 2013
Prerequisite: or concurrent:W P 200W, W P 203  

W P 412 Wood in Structures (3) Behavior and design of solid, laminated, and plywood wood beams, trusses, columns, and foundations. Wood construction details.
Effective: Summer 1997
Prerequisite: W P 200W, W P 203  

W P 413 The Chemistry of Wood (3) Chemical composition, reactions, and properties in relation to products and the uses of wood.
Effective: Summer 1997 Ending: Fall 2013
Prerequisite: W P 200W, W P 203  

W P 416 Wood Industries Management Development (3) Managerial concepts and issues important to forest products organizations will help prepare students to assume management-level positions.
Effective: Spring 2004
Prerequisite: W P 200W  

W P 417 Wood Products Manufacturing Systems and Processes (4) Description of systems and processes used in the manufacture of wood products.
Effective: Summer 1997
Prerequisite: W P 200W, W P 203 and sixth-semester standing  

W P 418 Chemical Processing of Wood (4) Principles and practices of basic operations in converting wood and wood waste into useful chemicals and modified cellulose products.
Effective: Summer 1997
Prerequisite: W P 200W, W P 203  

W P 423 Deterioration and Protection of Wood Products (2) Timber and wood deterioration from fungi, insects, fire; treatment of wood products for protection.
Effective: Fall 1996 Ending: Fall 2013
Prerequisite: W P 203  

W P 437W Wood Industries Marketing Management (4) Examination of major international wood products market segments in terms of products, distribution, industry structure, and strategic management issues.
Effective: Summer 1997 Ending: Fall 2013
Prerequisite: W P 200W, W P 203  

W P 438 Business Concepts for Wood Manufacturing (4) The course will cover manufacturing strategies and related financial measures in a wood production environment.
Effective: Summer 2003
Prerequisite: W P 200W  

W P 460 Wood Products Industrial Environmental Control (3) Wood products industrial environmental control technologies and strategies for pollution abatement.
Effective: Summer 1995
Prerequisite: fifth semester standing  

W P 490 Wood Products Colloquium (1) Presentations and discussions of solutions to problems within the forest products industry.
Effective: Spring 1993 Ending: Fall 2013
Prerequisite: seventh-semester standing  

W P 495 Wood Products Internship (1-6) Supervised field experience related to the student's major.
Effective: Spring 1993
Prerequisite: approval of proposed assignment by instructor prior to registration.  

W P 496 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

W P 497 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

W P 499 (IL) Foreign Studies (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2005
 

W P 511 Physical Properties of Wood and Fibers (3) Theories of moisture, diffusion, permeability, and heat transport; ultrastructure and thermal properties of wood and fibers.
Effective: Spring 1993
Prerequisite: W P 411  

W P 513 Wood Chemistry (3) Treatment of the chemical components of wood, their distribution and reactions.
Effective: Spring 1993
Prerequisite: W P 413  

W P 515 Wood Composite Processing Parameters (3) Wood composite manufacture in theory and practice including various synthesis parameters in relation to physical and mechanical properties.
Effective: Fall 1993
Prerequisite: F P 415  

W P 530 Case Studies in Forest Products (3) Manufacturing, marketing, and management issue analysis from a global perspective in the forest products industries.
Effective: Spring 1997
 

W P 531 Mechanical Behavior of Wood (3) Time-dependent properties, theory of failure, rheologic properties, and theory of the mechanical behavior of wood and structural composites.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

W P 532 Theory of Adhesion (3) Theory of adhesion as it pertains to bonding of wood, paper-based laminates, fibers, and bonding of wood to dissimilar materials.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

W P 537 International Wood Products Marketing and Trade (3) Strategic analysis, environmental scanning, international trade policy implications, determinants of competitive strategy for firms, industries, and nations.
Effective: Spring 1993
Prerequisite: W P 437W  

W P 560 Wood Products Industrial Environmental Control (3) Legislation, impacts, and management of air, water, and solid waste pollution in the wood products industry.
Effective: Summer 2002
Prerequisite: W P 401  

W P 590 Colloquium (1-3) Continuing seminars which consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

W P 596 Individual Studies (1-9) Creative projects, including nonthesis research, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

W P 597 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or term.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

W P 600 Thesis Research (1-15) No description.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

W P 602 Supervised Experience in College Teaching (1-3 per semester/maximum of 6) Provides an opportunity for supervised and graded teaching experience in forest products courses.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

W P 610 Thesis Research Off Campus (1-15) No description.
Effective: Spring 1993
 

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