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The department of wood and paper science and Technology is one of the oldest departments set up at the Faculty of Natural Resources at Tarbiat Modares University. It has been admitting master students in this field of study since 1983. In 2010, due to the increasing number of faculty members and their teaching experience, as well as the quantitative and qualitative development of laboratories and workshops of the department, the Ph.D. degree of Wood Based Composites was first launched in the country at the Faculty of Natural Resources of Tarbiat Modares University. At the same time, in line with the policies of the ministry of science, the faculty focused on the establishment of two branches of Wood Based-Composites and the Pulp and Paper Technology, ultimately, it managed to set up these two fields at master degree in 2013 October, it admitted students in these courses. Given the ever-increasing advances in sciences and technologies related directly or indirectly to lignocellulose biomaterials, especially in the field of wood and paper industries, the syllabi of this field have been experienced several revisions. Moreover, in the last development, the Ph.D. degree of Cellulose Industries has been established from 2018.
Too many academic, executive, educational and research honors and awards have been achieved by the department members. Numerous prominent faculty members, scientific researchers of national and also international universities and moreover industrial specialists had been educated in this department. Several scientific books have been published by the faculty members of the Dep., from which the selected BOOK OF THE YEAR in 2018 in Iran (in the fields of agriculture and natural resources) can be mentioned. Multiple national and international patents, research grants, projects and workshop, signing MOU with industrial holdings and companies, membership in Science Academy of Iran, executive academic positions, establishing professional laboratories and publishing high quality research papers are some other achievements for this Department.