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Packaging Systems and Design Faculty and Instructors

Meet the faculty and instructors teaching Packaging Systems & Design (PSD)

Young Teck Kim, Asst Professor of Practice, and students, Sustainable Biomaterials, Brooks Forest Products Center. Packaging.

Packaging Systems & Design

Core Faculty

Matt Baker

Matthew Baker
Collegiate Assistant Professor

Expertise: Innovation, Food Packaging, Commercialization, Sustainability, more...

Robert Bush

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Robert Bush
Professor

Expertise: Marketing, competitive strategy, capital budgeting and decision making, structural characteristics of the wood-based industries, more …

Laszlo Horvath

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Laszlo Horvath
Professor and Interim Department Head

Expertise: Interactions between pallets, packages and materials handling systems, pallet and unit load design, packaging dynamics, more . . .

Wonjung Jung

Wonjung Jung
Adjunct Instructor

Expertise:  Graphic design, illustrator,  painting, package design and creation, more...

Young Kim

Young-Teck Kim
Associate Professor

Expertise:Food packaging, development of sustainable (rigid/flexible) packaging, analytical packaging chemistry, smart packaging more …

Eduardo Molina

Eduardo Molina
Assistant Professor

Expertise: Packaging logistics, packaging design, supply chain management, continuous improvement, material handling, pallets, more …

Packaging Systems & Design (PSD)

Affiliated Faculty

Dan hindman

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Daniel Hindman
Professor

Expertise:  Wood building design, mechanical properties of wood, stability of wood i-joists, torsional stiffness of wood members, more . . . 

Jennifer Russell

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Jennifer Russell
Associate Professor

Expertise: Dynamic production-consumption systems for sustainable products and technologies, life-cycle impacts more …

Kiara Winans

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Kiara Winans
Collegiate Assistant Professor

Expertise:  Industrial ecology, life-cycle assessment, social ecology, more...