Prof. Petri P. Kärenlampi

Teaching Experience

Fifteen years of pedagogical experience in academic and corporate environments, in Finland, Sweden, and United States.

According to outside observers, "Where ever Petri is, he is teaching...".

Teaching experience includes but is not limited to
- lectures, exercises and examinations in the basics of Wood Science
- lectures, exercises and examinations in the Raw Materials Management
- lectures, exercises and examinations in Timber Scaling
- lectures, exercises and examinations in Forest Engineering
- lectures, exercises and examinations in Pulp and Paper Technology
- lectures, exercises and examinations in Papermaking Fundamentals and Paper Physics
- lectures, exercises and examinations in Mechanics of anisotropic, Time-Dependent Materials
- lectures, exercises and examinations in Instrumentation Applications
- management and supervision of field exercises in Wood Science and Forest Engineering
- arrangement and leadership of Industry Excursions
- moderating seminars in Wood Science
- moderating seminars in Forest Engineering
- arrangement of literature examinations in Wood Science
- arrangement of literature examinations in Forest Engineering
- arrangement of maturity examinations in Wood Science
- supervision and guidance of B.Sc.-thesis
- supervision and guidance of M.Sc.-thesis
- supervision and guidance of Doctoral thesis.


Present Courses
(some arranged semiannually):

Forest Products Mechanics (4 credits)
Strain. Stress. Stress-strain relations. Co-ordinate transformations. Time-dependent mechanical behavior. Moisture and temperature effects. Irrecoverable deformations. Energy dissipation. The fracture energy. Brittleness. Strain-softening. September-October.

Structure and Properties of Wood-Based Materials (4 credits)
Molecular, fibrillar and cellular structure. Changes in specific volume. Anisotropy. Optical, thermal and electrical properties. The effect of structure, temperature and moisture on properties. October - December.

Pulp and Paper Industry (3 credits)
Filtration and consolidation. Pulp manufacturing. Relations between paper structure and properties. January - March..

Measurement, Scaling and Instrumentation (3 credits)
Measurement of mass and volume. Determination of physical and chemical properties of raw materials and products. Instrumentation applications. February - April..

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