{"556481":{"#nid":"556481","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT\u0027s Pulp \u0026 Paper Foundations sees increase in student recruitment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPulp and paper companies are hiring undergraduate students and at a fast pace and trend only looks to continue, according to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chrisluettgen.squarespace.com\/\u0022\u003EDr. Chris Luettgen\u003C\/a\u003E, director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Pulp and Paper Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Program and Foundation. Luettgen made the comments in the PPF \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rbi.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/PPIsummer2016.pdf\u0022\u003Esummer newsletter\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELuettgen is also Professor of the Practice in ChBE, an associate director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute and director of Professional Masters in Manufacturing Leadership through GT\u2019s Professional Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhether it be an improved economy, or a realization of the impending impact of the \u201cgraying tsunami,\u201d recruiters are going after students at Georgia Tech. In addition, a natural cyclic nature of industrial health is evident, in that many engineering students have come to realize petrochemical is perhaps not the career path for them. \u201cBiomaterials is where it\u2019s at.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile exact figures regarding offers and hiring are difficult to determine, some students in the spring course on Papermaking received offers from pulp and paper and supplier companies with just one Certificate course completed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe also saw increased interest and enrollment in the course, and an increase in the number of students completing the full Pulp \u0026amp; Paper Certificate Program,\u201d Luettgen said. \u201cIn fact, this calendar year, it appears we will have seven completing the Certificate.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere are 70 undergraduates registered through Phase I. Phase 2 opens in August. The Certificate includes three credit hours of independent research\/special topics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/node\/7675\u0022\u003ECertificate program website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0027Biomaterials is where it\u0027s at\u0027"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2016-07-28 13:16:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:12","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"412731":{"id":"412731","type":"image","title":"Chris Luettgen","body":null,"created":"1449254211","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:51","changed":"1475895145","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:25","alt":"Chris Luettgen","file":{"fid":"202357","name":"130826_chris_luettgen.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/130826_chris_luettgen_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/130826_chris_luettgen_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17781,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/130826_chris_luettgen_0.jpg?itok=4sweAiST"}}},"media_ids":["412731"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9846","name":"certificate"},{"id":"5044","name":"Foundation"},{"id":"119291","name":"luettgen"},{"id":"2106","name":"Paper"},{"id":"67581","name":"pulp"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Chris Luettgen, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:chris.luettgen@rbi.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Echris.luettgen@rbi.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["chris.luettgen@rbi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}