economics in an additional year or 

 half year. 



Forest Engineering Programs — 

 Auburn and VPI and SU have 

 pioneered in timber-harvesting 

 programs. 



VPI and SU opened its industrial 

 forestry operations program in 

 1974 to prepare foresters more 

 adequately for entry-level positions 

 with forest industry in wood 

 procurement and mechanized 

 timber harvesting. The program 

 involved a battery of courses in 

 agricultural engineering, 

 engineering science and mechanics, 

 business, forestry, and forest 

 products around the forestry core. 

 The program meets accreditation 

 standards of the Society of 

 American Foresters. Placement of 

 its more than 250 graduates to date 

 has been well above the national 

 average for forestry. Master's and 

 Ph.D. programs have been added 

 as well (Shaffer 1984). 



More recently, Auburn University 

 began offering an undergraduate 

 major leading to a bachelor of 

 science in forest engineering 

 degree. It was established as a 

 joint major of the School of 

 Forestry and the Department of 

 Agricultural Engineering. It meets 

 accrediting standards of the 

 Society of American Foresters. It 

 is designed to meet those of the 

 Accrediting Board for Engineering 

 and Technology as well, but will 

 not be reviewed by this body until 



1986. The only other such program 

 in the Nation is at the University 

 of Maine. By the end of 1984, 

 approximately 20 people had 

 received this degree (E. Thompson 

 and Tufts, personal 

 communications). 



Pulp and Paper Technology — The 

 only undergraduate and graduate 

 degree programs in pulp and paper 

 science and technology are at 

 North Carolina State University's 

 School of Forest Resources. An 

 undergraduate program leading to a 

 bachelor of science in pulp and 

 paper technology was initiated in 

 1952 with strong support from 

 southern pulp and paper industry 

 leaders. In 1955, these interests set 

 up a special pulp and paper 

 foundation to provide scholarships 

 Southwide, supplement faculty 

 salaries, and provide teaching and 

 research laboratory equipment. 

 The program enjoyed regional 

 recognition from the beginning 

 through an agreement with the 

 Southern Regional Education 

 Board. In its 30-year history, the 

 program produced 579 graduates, 

 some 85 percent of whom are 

 estimated to have entered the 

 southern pulp and paper industry 

 upon graduation. Graduate 

 programs at the master's and 

 Ph.D. levels were initiated in the 

 late 1950's (Saylor 1979; Thomas 

 and Hitchings, personal 

 communications). 



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