APPF December 2023 Newsletter by Auburn University College of Engineering

December | 2023 Issue 2

Auburn Pulp & Paper Monthly Newsletter Board of Directors Meeting Updates

UPCOMING EVENTS & DEADLINES

The APPF Board of Directors met on Monday, December 4th to review progress so far and discuss plans for the future. Reports from the committees show a strong year ahead of us! Our membership and

Jan. 8: Golf Scramble registration opens Jan. 26: In-Person Board Meeting Feb. 1: AUSOM Scholarship App. Deadline Feb. 5-8: College of Engineering Career Fair Feb. 23: E-Day Feb. 26-27: College of Engineering Career Fair

development committee announced that we raised

just

membership

over

$350K

this

year

donations

towards

scholarships! In addition, we have two new supplier companies who have reached out

March 15: Donation Letters Mailed April 8: Golf Scramble April 19: Summer Camp Application Closes

about membership opportunities.

June 30: Annual donation deadline

The Scholarship & Recruitment committee

July 15-17: Summer Camp

was able to report that we had at least 6 companies host a mill night in their community. Dr. Jiang was also able to speak with all of the Intro to ENGR sections about the scholarship and specialization. The Scholarship Application went live on December 1st and closes on February 1st so please continue to spread the word. Our finances indicate that we are following our plan accordingly and are set to be well

over $5 million in total assets by the end of this fiscal year. The foundation website will be redesigned with a launch date in January. Social Media activity is also increasing so please make sure you follow us on Facebook! facebook.com/eng.appf

TAPPI Student Chapter Updates Our

Fall

2023

meetings

have

concluded. Thank you so much to all of our companies who took the time to come and speak to the students about your organization and the career opportunities you have. We are

already

looking

forward

Spring 2023 and have created the sign up for these meetings. Please visit this link to view the available days: https://aub.ie/autappi_companysig

Georgia-Pacific Presentation to TAPPI Group

nup Our group is excited to announce that we will be sending 9 students to participate in and represent Auburn University at the 2024 TAPPI Student

Progress on the new Paper Cart continues and the student group has a couple of outreach opportunities lined up for the Spring Semester.

Summit.

AU TAPPI Student Chapter Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/autappi

Events

The 2024 Golf Scramble will take place on

Our main event sponsor this year is

Monday, April 8, 2024. Registration goes

Georgia-Pacific. We would also like to

live on January 8th so mark your calendars!

thank our other sponsors so far: Yates for

The golf scramble will be held at the

sponsoring lunch, Jay-Industrial Repair for

Auburn University Club and follow a

sponsoring the drink cart, and PCA Counce

similary schedule as in previous years. We

for sponsoring dinner. We are still working

were able to negotiate renting additional

on finalizing prize sponsors, so please

golf cards this year to open up registration

reach out to us if you interested!

to more teams, but there will still be a maximum number we can accomdoate.

Summer Camp 2024 Registration is live for the 3rd

Please watch your emails for additional

Annual Paper & Bioresource

flyers and information to be shared in your

Engineering Summer Camp.

community. For more information and to

We are looking forward to

welcoming a new group of

summercamp.

rising juniors and seniors to Auburn's campus and sharing with them the exciting world of Pulp & Paper.

Research Updates &

In Spring of 2023, we submitted a

Biorsource Engineering is continuing to

proposal to initiate an Undergraduate

make progress on our various research

Research Certificate program in Pulp and

projects. Of note, the new M/K Digester

Paper for Chemical Engineering students

has been installed and is in the process of

who were enrolled in the specialization.

having the system automated to help

This proposal was approved and the

streamline the tests. We have one proposal

undergraduate

with DOE on “Replacing the traditional lime

available. Once we fully establish this

kiln with an integrated microwave-based

certificate, we will begin work on pathways

calcining process“ that is still pending.

for additional majors to be eligible.

The

Alabama

Center

for

Paper

certificate

will

now

Welcome to our new Graduate Research Assistants:

Chukwuma Nwanazoba

Habeeb Sodiq

Co-Advised with Dr. Selen Cremaschi

Co-Advised with Dr. Xinyu Zhang

212 Ross Hall, Auburn, AL 36849

appf.auburn.edu

334-844-2016

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