Sustainable Packaging (BIOP)
The Sustainable Packaging (BIOP) degree provides students with foundational knowledge and structure of both traditional forest products as well as emerging sustainable industry segments, an understanding of trade patterns and marketing, and the role of private industry and government organizations in development and trade, and the potential contribution of economic development.
The learning objectives of the program are to provide students with:
- Understanding of the chemical, physical, and mechanical properties of solid wood and bio-based products and packaging materials.
- Knowledge of the thermal, electric, and acoustic properties of bio-based products and packaging materials.
- Understanding of the relationships between anatomical structure and the physical/mechanical behavior of materials.
- Ability to identify commercially important sustainable materials and the durability of bio-based products and packaging materials.
- Able to complete sustainable material lifecycle assessments considering resource and energy consumption as well as waste generation.
| Freshman | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| ENGL 1100 English Composition I | 3 | ENGL 1120 English Composition II | 3 |
| BIOL 1020 Principles Of Biology | 3 | BIOL 1030 Organismal Biology | 3 |
| BIOL 1021 Principles Of Biology Lab | 1 | BIOL 1031 Organismal Biology Laboratory | 1 |
| MATH 1130 Precalculus Trigonometry (or Higher) | 3 | STAT 2510 Stats For Bio And Health Sci | 3 |
| INDD 1120 Indust Des In Modern Society | 3 | Core History or Social Science1 | 3 |
| Core History | 3 | BIOP 2120 Frontiers Sustain. Biomaterial | 3 |
| 16 | 16 | ||
| Sophomore | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| BIOP 2140 Fundamentals of Packaging Tech | 3 | CHEM 1040 Fundamental Chemistry II | 3 |
| BUAL 2650 Business Analytics II | 3 | CHEM 1041 Fund Of Chemistry II Lab | 1 |
| CHEM 1030 Fundamentals Chemistry I | 3 | SUST 2000 Introduction to Sustainability | 3 |
| CHEM 1031 Fund Of Chemistry I Lab | 1 | Core Fine Arts | 3 |
| ECON 2020 Prin Of Microeconomics | 3 | Core Literature or Humanities1 | 3 |
| Core Literature1 | 3 | COMM 1000 Public Speaking | 3 |
| 16 | 16 | ||
| Junior | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| BIOP 1390 Intro to Forest Prod. & Pack. | 3 | BATM 2110 Digital Ag & Technology | 3 |
| Free Elective | 1 | BIOP 4060 Econ of Biomaterials & Packag. | 3 |
| BIOP 5070 Durability Products Packaging | 3 | BIOP 4080 Mgmt for Sustain. Biomaterials | 3 |
| MATL 2220 Materials and the Environment or 2230 Mineral Resources | 1 | BIOP 5050 Biomass Processing Chemistry | 3 |
| MKTG 3810 Foundations of Bus. Marketing | 3 | BIOP 4360 Sustain Biomaterial & Markting | 3 |
| SCMN 2150 Principles of SCM | 2 | ||
| 13 | 15 | ||
| Senior | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| BIOP 4400 Sust. Biomat. & Prod. Dev. | 2 | BIOP 4410 Sust. Biomat. & Prod. Dev. II | 2 |
| BIOP 3840 Sustainable Packaging Concepts | 3 | BIOP 5800 Biopolymrs for Sust. Biomat. | 3 |
| BIOP 5250 Wood Composites BioMat & Pack. | 3 | CSES 5400 Bioenergy and ENVI | 3 |
| ENVD 2040 Design, Invention and Society | 3 | SCMN 5720 Quality & Process Improvement | 3 |
| INSY 3020 Occupational Safety Ergonomics | 3 | MKTG 4340 Marketing & New Product Develo | 3 |
| 14 | 14 | ||
| Total Hours: 120 | |||
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Students must complete a sequence in either Literature or History.
Courses in bold are majors courses and must be completed with a 2.0 or better.