Courses
Delivery + Audience
Course are customized to a site’s processes, equipment, products, and audiences. Book a Consultation to discuss specific learning objectives, audiences, course schedules, content options (introductory to intermediate), and to obtain sample course schedules
Dr. Kocurek enjoys consulting with organizations to determine the delivery and content best suited to your variety of audiences. Solutions for all budgets can be achieved.
Audience
New Process Engineers, New and Experienced Operators, Supervisors
Content includes customized P&P Technology topics, with a greater focus on a specific site’s pulp and/or paper mill processes, covering variables in more depth, the “why” things happen. It speeds up and enhances training of new operators; and fills in technical knowledge gaps for experienced operators.
Customer Service & Sales
Content includes the customized P&P Technology topics, with a focus on specific company product properties and tests, and the effects of their processes on product quality. It gives non-technical participants increased confidence in understanding a company’s/mill’s pulp & paper processes, products, equipment, terminology, and technology.
Finance & Administration
Content is on the customized P&P Technology topics with a focus on giving non-technical participants increased confidence in understanding their pulp & paper processes, products, equipment, terminology, and technology; to interact more knowledgeably; and to increase the ability to apply this knowledge to finance and/or other management functions.
Comprehensive Audience
Content is designed to meet the needs of participants from a variety of functional areas or the organization, and industry experience.
Delivery
On-Site
Hands-on learning and experiential education are incorporated into Dr. Kocurek’s training as participants journey into the mill for lessons taught right on the mill floor. enhance the classroom type experience.
Online
Dr. Kocurek was a pioneer on online learning and has pushed the learning platforms to fit the content rather than adjusting the content to fit the medium. With his extensive experience in instructional design with University, Government, Industry, and Community Colleges, you will have a clear understanding of what is compromised by online learning and determine if it’s of importance to your organization.
Enterprise Learning Solutions
If your organization would prefer to create content that can be utilized with a variety of internal stakeholders, a program can be designed for your training and development team to administer to participants as needed. Enterprise Learning Solutions, content licensing and customization may be more cost effective in some settings, as well as the ability to deliver the course more cost effectively across global locations.
Sample Course Offerings
Pulp & Paper Technology
The most comprehensive introductory to intermediate course in a 2-4 day time frame, covering raw materials, pulp mill operations, chemical recovery, recycling, paper mill operations, and environmental control.
Pulp Manufacturing Technology
The most comprehensive introductory to intermediate Pulp Manufacturing course in a 2-4 day time frame, covering raw materials, wood and chip preparation, pulping liquor preparation, batch & continuous digesters, “what happens in the digesters”, washing, cleaning, screening, bleaching, environmental control, trends and updates, and pulp properties & tests.
Paper/Board/Tissue Manufacturing
The most comprehensive introductory to intermediate Paper Manufacturing course in a 2-4 day time frame, covering wood & fiber raw materials and properties, stock prep refining, wet end additives, retention, and paper machine operations (approach system, headbox(s), sheet forming, fourdrinier, gap, cylinder, multiply formers), pressing, cylinder drying (for tissue, TAD and creping) calendering, size presses, coating, environmental control, trends and updates, and paper properties & tests.
Book a Consultation
“Now is a great time for Online Learning. Let’s discuss a custom program, or an Enterprise program for your organization. I look forward to the conversation.” - Mike
mike_kocurek@ncsu.edu
(843) 705-4844