Wood Science: Beyond Building
West Virginia University via Coursera
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Overview
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In short, wood is a far more diverse, green, and renewable resource than you might have imagined. Join us to learn about the important role of wood in human history, civilization, and our future.
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- describe wood as a raw material and its critical importance to the world economy, and the lives of the people that make that economy work.
- identify the projected trend for wood consumption to continue to grow in the coming years, despite the image of wood as a "low tech" material.
- identify the ways in which wood's properties can lead to its efficient and sustainable use.
-identify wood's positive role in boosting the world economy and ability to lead to unexpected vocations.
Syllabus
- Welcome and Global Use
- Basic Wood Science
- Wood Products
- Wood and the Environment
Taught by
Lawrence Osborn and Jeffrey Slahor
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Reviews
5.0 rating, based on 1 reviews
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Vankudothu Rajeswari completed this course, spending 1 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.
this course is very helpful and good.i have learned a lot of many things buy this course we can so easily learned a good course for day to life