| WPS 100 | Introduction to Pulping & Papermaking | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Introduction to the paper industry and the Pulp & Paper Science Curriculum. Overview of pulping and papermaking processes including plant tours and laboratory exercises. Two Saturday field trips to paper mills required. Concepts of professional development including resumes, interviewing, and summer job placement procedures. |
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| WPS 104 | Introduction to Wood Products | UNITS: 2 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Introduction to College of Natural Resources and University services, including libraries, computer labs, Leadership Development Series. Awareness of size and diversity of wood industry, career potential. Setting career goals, educational and professional development goals. |
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| WPS (FOR) 202 | Wood Anatomy and Properties | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Formation, anatomy and properties of wood. Structural features of softwoods and hardwoods and the relationships among anatomy, physiology, physical and mechanical properties. Variability, naturally occurring defects, and wood deterioration are discussed and related to wood utilization. Techniques on hand lens and microscopic identification of wood. |
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| WPS 203 | Wood Physical Properties | UNITS: 4 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Physical properties of wood, including specific gravity, dimensional behavior, stress and set, psychrometry, thermal, electrical and moisture relations. Lumber drying. |
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| WPS 205 | Wood Products Practicum | UNITS: 5 - Offered in Summer |
| Prerequisite: WPS 202 or 203 |
| Preparation of drawings and bill of materials for a furniture item. Parts are machined, assembled, and finished. Lumber grading, drying, and gluing principles. Four to five days are spent visiting industries to provide an appreciation for products and processes. The student is responsible for room and board; transportation is provided. |
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| WPS 210 | Wood Products Internship | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Completion of summer practicum |
| Experience in the forest products or related industries with a departmentally selected employer. |
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| WPS 240 | Wood Products | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Introduction to forest products industries, including the economic importance, current manufacturing technology, raw material requirements and the future of the industries. |
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| WPS 242 | Wood Fiber Analysis | UNITS: 2 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| The macro and micro structure of wood and the relationships of anatomical structures to the physical properties of wood and paper. |
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| WPS 301 | Introduction to Wood Chemistry | UNITS: 4 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: CH 101, CH 102, and WPS 202 or 203 or permission |
| Introduction of polymer science concepts (thermal transitions, molecular weight, viscoelasticity). Detailed instruction on wood chemistry,including wood reactivity, wood decay, the chemical aspects of thermal treatments, the separation of wood into its individual components, the reactivity and modification of the individual components, and the conversion of wood into energy products. |
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| WPS 302 | Wood Processing II | UNITS: 4 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: WPS 202 or 203 |
| Theories and techniques of processing raw wood into useable products. Principles of operation of current industrial wood milling equipment including primary and secondary processing. Machining of reconstituted wood products. |
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| WPS 308 | Wood Products Process Facilities Infrastructure | UNITS: 4 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Wood Products production methods-simulation, optimization, plant layout and material handling. Plant infrastructure-hydraulics, compressed air, electrical, dust extraction. |
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| WPS 309 | Wood Products Processing: Facilities and Infrastructure | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: WPS 205 |
| Wood Products production methods - simulation, optimization, plant layout. Plant infrastructure - hydraulics, compressed air, electrical, dust extraction. |
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| WPS 344 | Introduction to Quality Control in Wood Products | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: ST 361 |
| Statistical quality control techniques applicable to the manufacture of wood products. Control chart techniques for monitoring defects, defectives and measurements. Acceptance sampling procedures. Examples from the wood products industries will be used. |
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| WPS 346 | Forest Prod Business Mktg | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| This course will examine the business and marketing approaches in the forest products industry from a theoretical as well as an applied perspective. Students will learn the importance of business processes and how products, price, distribution, and promotion plays a role in the purchase behavior of consumers. Students will analyze situations and cases to solve real and hypothetical business problems in the forest products industry. |
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| WPS 350 | Wood Products Literature | UNITS: 2 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: Completion of WPS 205 |
| Exploration of the wood products literature; use of library services, oral and written reports, with emphasis on independent study. |
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| WPS (FOR) 423 | Forest Machinery and Systems | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: Junior standing in FOR, WP or BAE |
| Applications of engineering principles to problems in forest operations: power sources; testing; rating and capabilities of forest machinery; power requirements and utilization efficiencies; effects of vehicle design parameters on stability, safety, and operation under load; traction devices and vehicle mechanics. |
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| WPS 441 | Wood Mechanics | UNITS: 4 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: MA 231, PY 212, WPS 203 |
| Introduction to orthotropic elasticity. Shear effect on beam deflections. Wood- based composite beams. Shear and bending stress distribution in composite beams. Elastic stability. Influence of density, moisture content, load direction, temperature and load duration on mechanical properties of wood. Creep and mechanosorptive creep. Grading for structural applications. Allowable stresses . Structural fasteners. |
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| WPS 444 | Wood Composites | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: WPS 301 and senior standing in Wood Products |
| Structure-property relationships of common wood adhesives, bond formation fundamentals,bond performance;manufacture, properties, and processing of wood-based composites such as plywood, particleboard, waferboard, and oriented strandboard, as well as specialty composite products. |
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| WPS 450 | Wood Industry Case Studies | UNITS: 2 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: Senior standing in WP |
| Presentation of relevant Wood industry problems involving material selection, processing and managerial techniques. Causes of in-use failures of wood products and means of prevention. |
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| WPS 482 | Projects in Wood Products | UNITS: 2 - Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Senior standing in WP |
| Individual library or laboratory research projects selected and conducted with the approval and guidance of faculty. |
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| WPS 483 | Projects in Wood Products | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: Junior standing |
| Exploration of the wood products literature; use of library services and on-line databases, oral and written reports, with emphasis on independent study. Individual library or laboratory research projects selected and conducted with the approval and guidance of faculty. |
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| WPS 491 | Special Topics in Wood and Paper Science | UNITS: 1-4 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Independent study of management or technology problems selected with faculty approval or the offering of experimental courses. |
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| WPS 510 | Strategic Business Processes for the Forest Products Industry | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Strategic Business Processes is designed to introduce the technically trained student to organizational, management and leadership processes that drive a successful business. The course highlights the differences between principled leadership and "opinion poll" leadership, the need to balance the conflicting wants of major stakeholders in the business, the importance of a unique strategy, the linkage between strategy and day-to-day implementation of the strategy and the ingredients and requirements for a successful career. Real time illustrations are based on the Forest Products industry. |
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| WPS 516 | Forest Products Colloids & Surfaces | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Even Years, Offered in Spring Only |
| Surface and interfacial science as related to uses of lignocellulosic materials are covered. Fundamentals of the physical chemistry of surfaces and aqueous suspensions are brought to life with examples from such fields as paper science, biomaterials science, composites, and cellulosic liquid fuels technology. Topics include colloidal stability, flocculation, surface forces, polyelectrolyte behavior, electrokinetics, capillary forces, adhesion, surfactancy, and self-assembly. Water-cellulose interactions, including wettability, swelling, and hydrogen bonding effects will be highlighted. |
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| WPS 522 | Chemical Principles for the Papermaking Process Engineer | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: One year of chemistry courses. |
| Chemical principles for the Papermaking Process Engineer provides a foundation in aqueous chemistry and the applications of polyelectrolytes. The course is intended for professionals employed in the paper manufacturing industry and related industries, such as chemicals suppliers to paper manufacturers. Topics include the papermaking process, acids and bases, polymers, water-resistance, paper strength, colorants, retention and dewatering aids, deposit control, coatings, recycling, and wastewater treatment. Lectures are by CD or DVD. The course-pack, quizzes, and readings are on the web. For off-campus students. Permission of instructor required. |
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| WPS 527 | Wet-End and Colloidal Chemistry | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| The course objective is to prepare students to solve problems related to chemical usage on paper machines. Subjects include paper machine operations, fibers, fillers, chemistry of additives, colloids, control of paper's interactions with liquids, strength, dyes,strategies to optimize retention, dewatering strategies, strategies to achieve more uniform paper, strategies to improve production rates, and wet-end chemical process control. |
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| WPS (CE) 528 | Structural Design in Wood | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: CE 325 |
| Behavior, strength and design of wood structural members subjected to moment, shear and axial forces. Design of connections and introduction to design of wood structural systems. |
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| WPS (MAE) 534 | Mechatronics Design | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Structured Programming Experience, Senior standing or Graduate standing in WPS/MAE |
| Principles of Mechatronics Design, review of logic gates, microprocessor architecture, sensors and actuators, A/D and D/A conversion techniques, real-time multi-tasking programming concepts, direct digital control implementation. "Hands-on" experience through several laboratory assignments and final team project. |
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| WPS 565 | Paper Physics | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Fibers and bonds, network geometry, sheet structure, formation, thickness and roughness meassurements, pore size distributions, distribution of consistituents and their determination, effects of sheet composition and structure on optical properties. In-plane properties of paper, cyclic loading, failure and fracture mechanics, Page's equation, structural mechanics of paperboard, dimensional stability, rheology and moisture effects, transprort phenomena, absorbency, and swelling. |
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| WPS 577 | Paper Coating and Printing | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Fall Only |
| Major printing processes and grades of coated paper are presented. Coating base sheet requirements and design of coating formulation are related to end use requirements. Coating additives and rheology are analyzed in terms of coating process requirements. The effect of application and drying systems on transport phenomena of coating into paper will be analyzed. |
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| WPS 591 | Master's Seminar | UNITS: 1 |
| Prerequisite: Senior standing or Graduate standing |
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| WPS 595 | Special Topics Wood and Paper Science | UNITS: 1-3 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
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| WPS 601 | Seminar | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Presentation and discussion of progress reports on research, special problems and outstanding publications. |
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| WPS 620 | Wood and Paper Science Problems | UNITS: 1-3 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Senior standing or Graduate standing |
| Assigned or selected problems in the field of wood, paper and pulp science and technology.Credits Arranged |
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| WPS 625 | Advanced Wood and Paper Science Problems | UNITS: 1-6 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Selected problems in the field of wood and paper science.Credits Arranged |
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| WPS 685 | Master's Supervised Teaching | UNITS: 1-3 - Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Master's student |
| Teaching experience under the mentorship of faculty who assist the student in planning for the teaching assignment, observe and provide feedback to the student during the teaching assignment, and evaluate the student upon completion of the assignment. |
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| WPS 688 | Non-Thesis Masters Continuous Registration - Half Time Registration | UNITS: 1 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Master's student |
| For students in non-thesis master's programs who have completed all credit hour requirements for their degree but need to maintain half-time continuous registration to complete incomplete grades, projects, final master's exam, etc. |
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| WPS 689 | Non-Thesis Master Continuous Registration - Full Time Registration | UNITS: 3 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Master's student |
| For students in non-thesis master's programs who have completed all credit hour requirements for their degree but need to maintain full-time continuous registration to complete incomplete grades, projects, final master's exam, etc. Students may register for this course a maximum of one semester. |
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| WPS 690 | Master's Examination | UNITS: 1-6 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Master's student |
| For students in non thesis master's programs who have completed all other requirements of the degree except preparing for and taking the final master's exam. |
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| WPS 691 | Methods Of Research In Wood and Paper Science | UNITS: 1 - No Course Evaluation |
| Prerequisite: Advanced Undergraduate standing or Graduate standing |
| Research procedures, problem outlines, presentation of results; consideration of selected studies by forest research organizations; sample plot techniques.Credits Arranged |
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| WPS 693 | Master's Supervised Research | UNITS: 1-9 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Master's student |
| Instruction in research and research under the mentorship of a member of the Graduate Faculty. |
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| WPS 695 | Master Thesis Research | UNITS: 1-9 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Master's student |
| Thesis research. |
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| WPS 696 | Summer Thesis Research | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Summer |
| Prerequisite: Master's student |
| For graduate students whose programs of work specify no formal course work during a summer session and who will be devoting full time to thesis research. |
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| WPS 699 | Master's Thesis Preparation | UNITS: 1-3 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Master's student |
| For students who have completed all credit hour requirements and full-time enrollment for the master's degree and are writing and defending their theses. |
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| WPS 704 | Timber Physics | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Years, Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: WPS 202 |
| Density, specific gravity and moisture content variation affecting physical properties; physics of drying at high and low temperatures; thermal, sound, light and electrical properties of wood. |
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| WPS 713 | Tropical Woods | UNITS: 2 - Offered Alternate Years, Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: WPS 202 |
| Structure, identification, properties, characteristics and use of tropical woods, especially those used in plywood and furniture. |
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| WPS 715 | Surface and Colloid Chemistry Of Papermaking | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: CH 331 or CH 431 |
| The fundamental principles of surface and colloid chemistry important in paper making and their application to optimizing wet-end processes. Electrokinetic basis of flocculation, retention and other wet-end phenomena and the science of wet-end additives. |
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| WPS 721 | Chemistry Of Wood Polysaccharides | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Years, Offered in Fall Only |
| Prerequisite: CH 223 and PSE 332 or BCH 451 |
| Fundamental chemistry and physical chemistry of monosaccharides and polysaccharides with emphasis on hemicellulose and cellulose. Topics including construction and configuration, stereochemistry, solution properties, molecular weight determination and reactivity. |
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| WPS 722 | Chemistry Of Lignin and Extractives | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Years, Offered in Spring Only |
| The biosynthetic pathways, structure and reactivity of lignin and wood extractives with emphasis on topics important to pulping and conversion to useful by-products. |
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| WPS 723 | Forest Biomaterials Chemistry | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Odd Years, Offered in Spring Only |
| Chemical reactivity, structure and functional background of forest-derived polymers relative to paper science and biomaterials/bioenergy are covered. An understanding for the relationships between a material's structure and its properties will be developed with respect to applications. Course includes a basics of polymers, biomacromolecules (carbohydrates and lignin), pulping and bleaching chemistry, new technologies and environmental issues. |
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| WPS 725 | Pollution Abatement In Forest Products Industries | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing or Advanced Undergraduate standing in science or engineering curricula |
| Pollution sources, in-plant control and treatment of water and air pollution in forest products with concentration on the pulp and paper industry. |
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| WPS 733 | Advanced Wood Anatomy | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Years, Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: WPS 202 |
| Fundamental wood anatomy and cell wall ultrastructure. Laboratory techniques for light and electron microscopic studies of wood. |
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| WPS 740 | Wood Composites | UNITS: 3 - Offered Alternate Years, Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: WPS 441, Graduate standing or Advanced Undergraduate standing |
| Course designed to acquaint advanced undergraduate and graduate students with rapidly expanding field of wood composites. Presentation of production processes for particle board, plywood, hardboard, fiberboard, and other wood composites. Developmentof elastic theory for the stiffness, strength and buckling resistance of composites. Test procedures for determining mechanical properties and design procedures for glued laminated members, panel products, and built-up members, including I- and box-beams, stressed-skin panels and sandwich panels, outlined. |
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| WPS 750 | Wastewater Treatment In the Paper Industry | UNITS: 3 |
| Prerequisite: WPS 725 |
| Laboratory practice in pollutant characterization and wastewater treatment processes for the paper industry. |
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| WPS 760 | Engineering Unit Operations for Biomass Conversion | UNITS: 3 - Offered in Spring Only |
| Prerequisite: WPS 215, 216 |
| Engineering fundamentals and process technology for the production of biomaterials including paper and bioenergy are covered. These will include heat transfer, chemical kinetics, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics. Applications include a) process technology for the production of paper b) heat and material balances in a pulping and papermaking c) process technologies for the production of bioenergy d) design of bioreactors e) recovery and purification of products f) gasification and pyrolysis reactions and g) catalytic conversion of syngas. |
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| WPS 791 | Doctoral Seminar | UNITS: 1 |
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| WPS 795 | Advanced Special Topics | UNITS: 1-3 |
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| WPS 801 | Seminar | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
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| WPS 820 | Special Problems | UNITS: 1-3 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall and Spring |
| Prerequisite: Senior standing or Graduate standing |
| Assigned or selected problems in the field of wood, paper and pulp science and technology. |
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| WPS 825 | Advanced Wood and Paper Science Problems | UNITS: 1-9 - No Course Evaluation |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing |
| Selected problems in the field of wood and paper science. |
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| WPS 885 | Doctoral Supervised Teaching | UNITS: 1-3 - Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| Teaching experience under the mentorship of faculty who assist the student in planning for the teaching assignment, observe and provide feedback to the student during the teaching assignment and evaluate the student upon completion of the assignment. |
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| WPS 890 | Doctoral Preliminary Examination | UNITS: 1-9 - Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| For students who are preparing for and taking written and/or oral preliminary exams. |
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| WPS 891 | Methods Of Research In Wood and Paper Science | UNITS: 1-3 - No Course Evaluation |
| Prerequisite: Graduate standing or Advanced Undergraduate standing |
| Research procedures, problem outlines, presentation of results; consideration of selected studies by forest research organizations; sample plot techniques.Credits Arranged |
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| WPS 893 | Doctoral Supervised Research | UNITS: 1-9 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| Instruction in research and research under the mentorship of a member of the Graduate Faculty. |
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| WPS 895 | Doctoral Dissertation Research | UNITS: 1-9 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| Dissertation research. |
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| WPS 896 | Summer Dissertation Research | UNITS: 1 - Offered in Summer |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| For graduate students whose programs of work specify no formal course work during a summer session and who will be devoting full time to thesis research. |
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| WPS 899 | Doctoral Dissertation Preparation | UNITS: 1-3 - No Course Evaluation, Offered in Fall Spring Summer |
| Prerequisite: Doctoral student |
| For students who have completed all credit hour, full-time enrollment, preliminary examination, and residency requirements for the doctoral degree, and are writing and defending their dissertations. |
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