Position Announcement - Bioproducts Systems Analysis Assistant Professor The Pennsylvania State University This is a 36-week, tenure track teaching and research appointment in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, College of Agricultural Sciences. The successful candidate will develop a nationally and internationally recognized program applying analysis, optimization, and modeling tools to ecologically and socially transformative bioproduct and bioprocess systems. Examples of specific areas of research include applications of systems tools to bioproducts production, manufacturing and supply chains, sustainable food production and food safety; agriculturally and biologically derived materials, chemicals, and related products. Teaching responsibilities will include three courses in ...
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Read MoreDates: March 9-17, 2019 Sustainable Forestry in Chile offers students an opportunity to explore the social, environmental, and economic aspects of forests and wood products in Chile. Students will gain real world understanding of the ideas and goals of sustainable forestry as they follow the economic cycle of natural Chilean forests and forest plantations—from seedlings, to forests, to forest products. This field based course will provide an overview of sustainable forestry from a multidisciplinary standpoint including silviculture, forest ecology, forest operations, wood engineering, and marketing. Assignments will aim to allow students flexibility to create and complete projects that demonstrate how ...
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