The Chairman's Blog

  Thirty-five students from the Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering went to the Tappi Student Summit over Martin Luther King weekend.  The Summit, held this year in Jacksonville,...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2012/02/tappi-student-summit.html

In a recent edition of Rick Reagan’s “Money in Your Pocket” segment on News Channel 9 morning news show, Rick Reagan talks about career fields that are in demand (http://www.9wsyr.com/media...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2011/11/jobs-that-pay.html

Saturday morning, 16 October, was the running of the 1st Annual 3K Paper Run sponsored by the Papyrus Club of SUNY-ESF.  The event was held in conjunction with the celebration of the 50th annive...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/10/1st-annual-3k-paper-run.html

On Wednesday, 13 October 2010, Mr Lester Lee spoke to the students about career paths after receiving your degree from SUNY-ESF.  In his talk, he used his career with Honeywell as an example.  ...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/10/career-paths-for-paper-and-bioprocess.html

A new academic year has started at SUNY-ESF and with the new year comes a new group of students starting in our Paper Engineering and Bioprocess Engineering programs as well as a new look for the...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-academic-year-in-paper-and.html

Monday, our last full day in Beijing, has been designated the shopping day  for the students.  Those that want to go shopping will be able to finish purchasing the souvenirs.  The students are...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/monday-in-beijing-last-day.html

The students travelled today to visit the Summer Palace, which was built by the Empress Dowager, the only ruling Empress of China.  The Summer Palace includes many buildings, a Buddhist temple, ...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/sunday-in-beijing.html

As we near the completion of our visit to China, the students are seeing a few last sights in Beijing.  On Friday, the students visited the Beijing Zoo.  Although there were thunderstorms, they...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/nearing-completion-of-our-trip.html

Thursday brought the students to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.  To get from the hotel to Tiananmen Square, we rode the Beijing subway for the first time.  As it was the tail end of r...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/thursday-in-beijing.html

Today the students and I went our separate ways for the day.  While they were travelling to the Great Wall of China, Dr Liu and I visited with the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/wednesday-in-beijing.html

Today, we travelled to the final city on our itinerary:  Beijing.  While our transfer from Chengdu to Xi’an took 16 hours by train, the plane trip from Xi’an to Beijing took less than 2 hou...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/travel-to-bejing.html

Today we learned more about the history of China by visiting the Shaanxi History Museum which contains many items collected from the area of historical note.  Xi’an is the China end of the Sil...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/touring-in-xian.html

Today we visited the famous Terra Cotta Warriors in Xi’an.  These figures were buried to serve the first emperor of China in the afterlife.   To assure that he had an army in the afterlife, ...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/terra-cotta-warriors-of-xian.html

In the afternoon, Dr Liu and I had the opportunity to walk around Bamboo Park in Chengdu, which is right next to Sichuan University.  The park lives up to its name, growing many different kinds ...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/bamboo-park-in-chengduto-xian-by-train.html

Today (Wednesday), the students and I visited the Chengdu Research base of Giant Panda Breeding.   This is one of the primary sites in the world dedicated to breeding and maintaining the popu...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/pandas-and-ancient-history.html

Dr. Shijie Liu and Dr. Gary M. Scott are once again taking a group of students to mainland China as an international experience organized by the PBE Department.   The last time a group of stude...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/05/pbe-department-returns-to-china.html

(Courtesy of Linda Fagan, Administrative Manager for the Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation) Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding.    The goal of this art is to create a ...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2010/01/dollar-bill-origami.html

The students in PSE 300 (Introduction to Papermaking) engaged in a paper bridge building contest as part of their course (http://www.esf.edu/catalog/PSE.asp ).  The students had to build a brid...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2009/10/paper-bridge-contest.html

The students in the Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering (www.esf.edu/pbe ) held their 2nd Annual Paper Airplane Fly-In, where students, faculty, guests, and sons and daughters of facu...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2009/10/2nd-annual-paper-airplane-fly-in.html

On Friday, 9 October 2009, the Secretary of Energy, Dr. Stephen Chu, visited the SUNY-ESF campus to look at the development of the "green" technology going on across campus.  In particular, he ...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2009/10/visit-by-secretary-of-energy-dr-stephen.html

Every Fall, the Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation  (http://www.esf.edu/pbe/sppf/ ) honors those students receiving scholarships to study Paper Engineering and Paper Science at SUNY-ESF (www.esf...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2009/10/student-speech-at-sppf-recognition.html

The 2009 International Biorefinery Conference opened today at the DoubleTree Hotel in Syracuse, New York and  is two days of information on the emerging technology relating to the use of renewab...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2009/10/2009-international-biorefinery.html

A recent survey by the Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation asked the question of alumni of the Paper Engineering and Paper Science programs at SUNY-ESF, "Would you still recommend a career in the ...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2009/10/working-in-paper-industry.html

This week we had the pleasure of having Mimi Schliecher with us to demonstrate paper marbling.  Marbling is a surface art form that transfers floating inks to paper.  In the process, ink of var...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2009/09/marbling-with-mimi-schliecher.html

Students from the Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering teamed up with the Girl Scouts to offer handmade papermaking at the Westcott Street Cultural Fair on Sunday, 13 September 2009. ...

http://esf-engineer.blogspot.com/2009/09/pbe-students-at-westcott-street.html