Study Guide

Objectives (course unit)

The student:
- knows the suitability of different types of timber for the most common wood manufacturing processes, the efficiency of the use of wood raw material and the requirements of the end products for the wood raw material
- knows the potential of wood raw material as a substitute for non-renewable raw materials in various products
-can acquire professional information from a variety of sources and produce a small report on his / her professional field.

Content (course unit)

The most important industrial processing processes for wood raw material (wood products industry, chemical forest industry, wood energy use) and their products. Finnish wood as a renewable raw material and its suitability for different production processes. Physics related to wood properties (humidity, calorific value, elasticity, strength). Requirements set by different processes for wood quality. Information retrieval teaching. Making a report.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

The student knows the wood processing industries and the main product groups manufactured in them.
He knows the possibilities of using different types of timber in different processing industries.
He / she knows the most important timber assortments used in Finland and is able to allocate different parts of trees to different wood assortments, taking into account the quality criteria set by different processing plants.
The student knows how to retrieve information about his professional field

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

The student knows the most important industrial wood processing processes as well as the products and by-products resulting from them.
He knows the requirements of the most important wood processing processes for wood raw material.
The student can use professional information when preparing reports.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

The student is able to calculate the efficiency of the use of wood raw material for the most important processing processes, products and by-products.
The student knows the most important physical properties of wood raw material and recognizes how it affects the industrial use of wood and understands how different factors influence the use of wood in different processing processes.
The student knows the effects of different wood raw material properties on end products in the most important refining processes.
The student is able to use the information he / she is looking for in the preparation of reports taking into account source critics and be able to make source references and a list of sources.

Assessment scale

0-5