FOR 414: Renewable Wood Products

Course Code: FOR 414

Course Description

This course provides an overview of renewable products from forest ecosystems with a focus on wood products, wood fibers, and wood energy. The course will link silviculture and forest management to sustainable harvesting of trees for wood and other wood-based products. The course reviews tree growth and production of woody tissues, and discuss wood and timber as major forest product, including identification and characteristic (structure, physical and mechanical characteristics), fiber-based products including pulp and paper manufacturing, and wood and woody biomass as biofuel. The course presents the common manufacturing and utilization processes.

This course provides an overview of wood products as engineering material for students majoring in forestry or any other material sciences related areas of studies. Students will develop a clear understanding of the role, processing, and economic importance of wood products. Technical skills related to the macro and microstructure of wood for identification of wood species; lumber manufacturing, chemical, physical and mechanical properties of wood, conversion of logs into value added products such as fiber-based products, wood composites, and wood biofuels.