| The Centre |
 The Pulp and Paper Centre houses collaborative post-graduate programs between The University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (Paprican). These programs focus on education and research for the pulp and paper industry. They are linked to the Industry through Paprican's national education program encompassing UBC, McGill University and Ecole Polytechnique. The research program consists of graduate student research supervised by Paprican and UBC faculty holding cross-appointments with each organization. Graduate students are assigned office and laboratory space in the Centre. MSc, MASc and PhD degrees are offered through 6 departments of the University of British Columbia. These include the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metals and Materials Engineering, and Chemistry.
The research has a strong focus on engineering, with 18 of 20 research supervisors drawn from 5 engineering departments. Areas of emphasis include: environmental engineering, chemical pulping technology, process control, fibre processing, mechanical pulping, papermaking and corrosion engineering.
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| The Facilities |
The Centre is located adjacent to The University of British Columbia's engineering departments and the Faculty of Forestry. The building itself contains 2,200 net square metres of offices and laboratories. These include a high headroom laboratory, high-serviced general purpose laboratories (including chemical pulping, mechanical pulping and wet-end chemistry laboratories), a fully-equipped machine shop, a seminar room, and a reading room. Offices and laboratories in the building are devoted to staff and researchers (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research engineers) of the Centre's Faculty Associates.
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| General Contact Information: |
Pulp and Paper Centre
The University of British Columbia
2385 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
Tel: 604 822-8560
Fax: 604 822-8563
e-mail: ppc-info@ppc.ubc.ca |
