PaPer engineering, ChemiCal engineering and imaging

and processed and emerging projects like biofuels and biopolymers are creating opportunities in virtually every area of engineering and manufacturing. The paper industry is a key component in many businesses and touches many aspects of our lives. Career options include process engineering, technical services, pollution prevention, research and evelopment, marketing and sales, manufacturing and much more. WMU provides leading-edge oportunities in the applications of nanotechnology, printing and ink development methods, recycling, paper mill operation control engineering, process control and instrumentation, printing, and chemical manufacturing. Paid summer internships and co-op programs give practical hands-on experience.

BaChelor of SCienCe in PaPer SCienCe

BaChelor of SCienCe in ChemiCal engineering

Chemical engineers are involved in almost every industrial process in our society. The chemical engineer discovers, designs, builds, and operates industrial processes that involve changes in the chemical composition, physical nature, or energy content of materials. Chemical engineers play a lead role in waste minimization through process improvement and treatment plant design and operation. Gasoline from oil, cereal from grain, paper from trees, and pharmaceuticals by chemical synthesis—all utilize chemical engineers. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find anything you are using, at any time of day, that was not produced using the skills of a chemical engineer.

BaChelor of SCienCe in imaging

Students acquire the technical skills, knowledge and experience required for a beginning professional working in the printing, imaging, and inks industries. You will specialize in learning digital printing, color management, communication, computer graphics, and business

aBout the dePartment

Our department is internationally recognized in terms of high quality applied research and high caliber graduates. You’ll be taught in state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms, located in the new College of Engineering and Applied Sciences world leading campus, located in the Parkview Business Technology and Research Park. Our class sizes are smaller, with one-on-one interaction with faculty and industry personnel. You’ll be learning with technologically-advanced methods and tools and, you’ll be taught by the finest professors and faculty that WMU has to offer. When you get your first job offers, you’ll be able to ‘hit the ground running!. That’s why corporations feel confident hiring WMU PCI graduates!

Throughout the last 50 years, our graduates have always successfully placed with some of the highest starting salaries in the limitless and cutting-edge fields of engineering. All our students participate in hands-on summer internship and co-op experiences with the paper, chemical and printing industries. Industry depends on us to fill their positions with our students.

Our Chemical Engineering program offers the unique areas of concentration in Paper, Life Sciences, Energy, and Environment. We recently modified our Imaging program to reflect changes in the industry including high speed digital printing and color

ProgramS

BaChelor of SCienCe in PaPer engineering

Paper Engineers are finding jobs in all of the most exciting technological and scientific industries. New developments in the ways trees are grown, harvested

FACTSCollege ofengineering & aPPlied SCienCeS

applications.

Students in the Imaging Program have a choice of four options. Out of the total 127 credits required for graduation, about 45 credits will come from the options area.

The option areas are:imaging (BuSineSS) This program emphasizes business fundamentals, business operations, employee supervision, labor relations, marketing and sales, and advertising.

imaging (multimedia) This program emphasizes web, video and audio imaging application in addition to print.

imaging (ComPuting) This program emphasizes informationprocessing, programming, network management, and graphics development.

imaging (SuBStrate) This program emphasizes paper, plastic film, and foil properties and behaviors.

maSter of SCienCe in PaPer and imaging SCienCe

Our Graduate Program focuses on preparing you to generate knowledge and be ready, willing, and able to accept expected research and development responsibilities upon employment. We also want you to assist industry in the design and development of technologies and products based on sound theoretical principles.

Ph. d. —PaPer and imaging SCienCe and engineering

Students must have a masters degree in science or engineering, with a graduate GPA of 3.25 and a GRE score above the 50th percentile.

reSearChSpot Color Consistency for Product GravureAdvisor: Dr. Alexandra PekarovicovaDescription: Spot colors are specially mixed inks that come in a rainbow of colors, including some specialty inks such as metallic and fluorescent. Unlike process colors, spot colors are pre-mixed and applied individually to the

printed page. Pigments make the greatest contribution to the viscosity of the liquid system. Acceptable and stable viscosity is a prerequisite to a stabilized system that will deliver the required printing finish. In preliminary work it was found, that the size of pigment particles diminished during long runs on gravure presses, which caused color distortion. Therefore, there is a need to manufacture more stable inks with surface modified pigments. The research is oriented to manufacture inks and monitor ink changes on the press and consequences in color change, which will help to better understand how to formulate shear stable inks.

Development of a new test method to characterize paper coatings using the Tribometer.Advisor: Dr. Margaret JoyceDescription: Development of a new test method to characterize paper coating. The interaction of coatings, inks and substrate is required to characterize paper coatings. Adhesion and delamination testing techniques are used to determine the strength of the coatings. A new test method is being developed to characterize coatings based on the friction properties that are used to evaluate the strength of these coatings. This test method uses multi-sensing technology based on simultaneous high-resolution force and electrical and acoustic measurements, allows for accurate measurement of delamination forces and controlling the applied load with repeatable results.

Borate Autocausticizing.Advisor: Dr. John Cameron

Description: Our research aims at a systematic analysis of borate autocausticizing kinetics. Borate autocausticizing is a promising approach to the operational and environmental improvement of Kraft pulping and its chemical recovery. The advantages of utilizing borate autocausticizing include partial or total elimination of the lime cycle, pulp strength improvement and capital and maintenance cost savings. The uniqueness of this research

is the usage of a thermo-gravimetric analysis to study the kinetics of the borate/carbonate reaction. Furthermore, the two objectives of this thesis are: to investigate and apply the usage of TGA (ThermoGravimetric Analyzer) in this type of studies and to generate experimental reaction rate data for a kinetic model for the borate autocausticizing as well as investigate the effect of carbon dioxide on this rate. The experiments are designed with three control variables: stoichiometric ratio of borate to carbonate, reaction temperature and amount of carbon dioxide in the reactants environment. The response variable is the amount of carbon dioxide generated from the reaction. The weight loss as a result of carbon dioxide emission is measured by the TGA and the results can be displayed graphically or exported to