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Why a Graduate Degree in Wood Science?
Wood is essential to human existence and the demand for the thousands of wood products we consume each year is growing. To meet the dynamic global challenges of the 21st Century we must be more innovative in making and using products from renewable resources and minimize environmental impacts. We need to learn more about the complex renewable material that is wood and dream of new ways that it can help us in the future. Our domestic industry must develop and implement new technology and marketing strategies to remain competitive. These challenges require men and women who understand wood to become the scientists, technologists and businesspersons who will meet the challenge of new knowledge and innovation. The field of wood science and technology is relatively young, having evolved primarily since the 1940's. Wood science is the interdisciplinary body of knowledge about wood as a material, including its origin, properties and characteristics. Wood technology deals with the application of knowledge in the conversion, processing, marketing and use of wood and wood-based materials. In recent years, the field of wood science has expanded to include a range of composite and nontraditional products, and to encompass a variety of technology-based and business disciplines. Oregon has been, and will continue to be, a center for forestry and wood-based materials because of our natural resources and well-established industry. However, the challenges of the future will take wood science graduates to many parts of the country and the world, and have them in many different types of jobs. Recent graduates have been sought especially by private
manufacturing industry, retail sales centers, global
commercial firms,
government agencies, universities and others. Examples
of their jobs include: - Design Engineer, Oregon, New York, California |
Last updated: August 24, 2009