Rethink

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Rethink Discovery - IIIOpening Doors to
Innovation and Learning-- A Thought Leadership
Program Harry Cullinan Learning Panel
North Carolina State University Pulp Paper
Foundation Annual Meeting -- October 10, 2002
Raleigh, North Carolina

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Program Overview

• Introductory Remarks -- Background Program
  Overview Kathy Buckman Davis
• Keynote Richard Phillips
• Panel Session 1
• Innovation Pathways or Dead ends? Ben Thorp
• Panel Session 2
• Learning Doorways or Roadblocks? Mike Kocurek
• Summary Wrap-up Jim McNutt
• Adjourn

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Worker Training Agenda 2020 The
Technological Advanced Workforce -- TAW
Harry Cullinan Director -- Pulp Paper Research
Education Center Auburn University
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Cullinan -- TAW Task Group

• Harry Cullinan, Auburn / PPERA, co-chair
• Jack Flynn, MeadWestvaco, co-chair
• Gary Beasley, G-P
• Steve Brady, PACE
• Gerard Closset, Consultant

• Bob Caron, TAPPI
• Harald Finne, UPM-Kymmene
• Mike Kocurek, NCSU
• Joe McNeel, WVU
• Bob Patterson, IPST
• Robert Watson, NSF

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TAW -- Executive Advisory Panel

• Roy Barry, Madison Paper Industries
• Pete Black, Alabama River
• Willis Potts, Inland Paperboard

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PPERA -- Enrollments
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Placement -- BS Chemical Engineers
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TAW Task Group New Initiatives

• Science Teacher Initiative
• 200 Teachers / year
• 5000 Students / year
• 10 PPERA Universities _at_ 15K / year
• Pilot Program 2002 (Auburn, NCSU, Washington)

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TAW Task Group New Initiatives

• National Network for Operator Training
• Alabama Southern Community College (AL)
• Century College (MN)
• Mid-State Technical College (WI)
• Kennebec Valley Technical College (ME)
• Lower Columbia College (WA)

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A National Network -- Operator Training
CC
MSTC
LCC
KVTC
ASCC-AU
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A National Strategy -- Operator Training
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PPERA -- Voluntary Cooperative Initiatives
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The Pulp and Paper Foundations -- Independent
Voluntary Initiatives
Auburn
Georgia Tech
WISC- Stevens PT
Maine
WMU
Washington
Miami, OH
University of Minnesota
Syracuse
NCSU