Industry Archives - U Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation

Get A Real Job Highlight: Product Development Engineer

In our first blog in the Get A Real Job series, we discussed how to become a chemical engineer, common personality traits, and necessary experience to enter the field. We then dug deep into three lucrative career opportunities available to chemical engineers after...

What the Foundation Built

Campus Life, General News, Industry, News

Building a Strong Foundation The University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation (UMPPF) is widely recognized for its long-running scholarship program. For decades, it has supported undergraduate students in engineering and technical programs. Those scholarship dollars...

Nature’s Super Polymer: Nanocellulose

Campus Life, Industry, PDC Series

Nanocellulose, or cellulose nanomaterials, is a term used to describe the various forms of nature’s super polymer – cellulose – at the nanometer level. That’s 10-9 meters, or 1/100,000 the diameter of a human hair! This renewable and natural material offers virtually...

Get A Real Job: Chemical Engineering

Get A Real Job, Industry

Want to go into chemical engineering but not sure where it’ll take you? First, let’s talk about what chemical engineers do. Chemical engineers apply the principles of math and science to solve problems with products or processes, usually in an industrial setting. They...

Graphic Packaging International Leadership Supports UMPPF

Campus Life, Events, General News, Industry

Mike Doss, President and CEO of Graphic Packaging International (GPI), recently made a generous donation to the UMPPF, followed by a visit to campus with his leadership team to meet with UMPPF students, faculty, and to learn about the research in pulp and paper being...

It’s Not Your Parent’s Paper Industry

General News, Industry, PDC Series

Today’s pulp and paper industry is transitioning to respond to global demands for more sustainable manufacturing and environmentally friendly products. Many of the prospective students visiting the University of Maine this summer as part of the Consider Engineering...