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C&EN June 16, 1975
Education
Paper institute restructures grad program Faculty expansion in the nation's graduate schools isn't a common thing these days. A notable exception is the Institute of Paper Chemistry (IPC), which is in the midst of a major restructuring program. The program is being undertaken to accommodate changing needs of the paper industry. In his first annual report since assuming the presidency of the industry-supported institute last fall, Dr. Harry A. Posner outlined several basic changes in the IPC organization to the 39th Annual IPC Executive's Conference. There is a change in planning for research to be conducted by the institute with more emphasis on blending of research and teaching at the practical level. Restructuring of the IPC staff has the highest priority. As many as eight new positions will be filled in coming months. Although some of these will be offset by retirements, there will be a net gain. As a reflection of the increased integration of the educational and research function, Posner says, some of the new staff probably will come from industry. Others, with the emphasis on youth and research potential, will be sought at educational institutions. IPC's $4.4 million budget for 1975 will be increased to $4.9 million in 1976, with $1.2 million of the latter going into the funded research plan. Patrons of the institute provide the funds, prorated on an individual company's output. The contribution is agreed upon in advance each year by the patrons in consultation with the IPC staff. Most of the budget goes to educational activities. Dr. Roy P. Whitney, vice president-academic, says that one of the immediate goals is to increase enrollment in line with the growing requirements of the paper industry, which has had some difficulty in recruiting qualified graduates from other institutions. Currently, between 60 and 70 students are enrolled. The goal is 100 students. In the past, about 18 students per year have been admitted. Last fall, however, the number increased to 25, and IPC is aiming for 45 per year by 1978. More emphasis will be placed on the M.S. degree program, according to Whitney. Traditionally, most students at IPC have received Ph.D. degrees. At present, there is an almost equal division between M.S. and Ph.D. candidates. In the future, IPC expects to provide about twice as many M.S.'s as Ph.D.'s. Along with increasing enrollment, IPC is broadening its curriculum. The institute always has tended to an interdisciplinary program, but that tendency will be even greater in the future.
There will be heavier emphasis on engineering, and additional consideration will be given to environmental technology, economics, business, and law. One of the new wrinkles tried out last year was a series of concentrated seminars in management conducted by experts drawn from outside the institute. Two management series will be conducted in the next academic year. Since IPC receives most of its income from the paper industry, it is reciprocating with a newly expanded program of continuing education. There is now a separate continuing education center on the campus in Appleton, Wis., that will offer 16 seminars and short courses in 1975-76. The possibility of moving continuing education activities into paper plants also is being considered. To obtain students for the expanded program, the IPC staff actively seeks out qualified candidates, most of the students being drawn from the ranks of chemical engineering graduates around the world. This year, 67 colleges and universities were visited, an increase of 50% over the previous year. Even more campuses will be visited next year. In addition to direct visits by the institute staff, small groups of engineering professors from other institutions will be brought to the IPC campus for short visits. An aid in recruitment has been a substantial increase in the dollar amount of fellowships offered in the past year, with further increases anticipated to balance inflation. Dr. John C. Wollwage, vice presidentresearch, describes the change in research emphasis as being away from short-term contract research projects and more toward funded programs that would be broader in scope, less fragmented, and nonproprietary in nature. The programs would be selected by the institute in consultation with IPC member patrons. The new research program began this year with a plan calling for 16 projects grouped in four major areas of interest that broadly reflect the paper industry's needs. Included in the four are raw materials, environment, energy conservation, and product (paper and board) properties. In the raw materials area, for example, attention will be focused on increasing fiber yields, with high-yield pulping and forest genetics getting the prime effort. Oxidative delignification is one of the more promising processes now being considered at IPC. Wollwage says that a pulping process preferably should require no sulfur or chlorine and should make possible a capital investment significantly lower than the kraft process's current $250,000 per daily ton. D
