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Instructor/Extension Specialist School of Renewable Natural Resources Room 112, RNR Bldg. Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Phone (225) 578-4158 Fax (225) 587-4251 Mobile (225) 281-7565 email: CClement@agcenter.lsu.edu

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EDUCATION

PhD    Forest Products Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 2002.
Dissertation: Understanding rough mill yield through the interaction between lumber characteristics and processing parameters.  
Co‑Advisors: Rado Gazo and Robert Beauregard.

M.S.  Wood Science, Laval University, 2001.  Advisor: Yves Fortin.

B.S.    Wood Science, Laval University, 1996.

EXPERIENCE

• Private consultant
• Texas Forest Service
• Tennessee Forest Products Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville
• Forintek Canada Corporation in Québec City, Canada.

EXTENSION INTERESTS

• Improve the use of underutilized lumber species, small-log timber, process analysis, and ergonomics to make the best use of available resources;
• Raising awareness of changes in manufacturing technology and practices to assist industry improve production and reduce waste;
• Developing new products, or alternate ways of making existing products – to help create stronger economic development.

CURRENT PROJECTS 

• Employee Empowerement – How to reduce employee turnover by developing new managerial tools;
• Education outreach – Raise youth’s awareness of forest products as a career opportunity through dissemination of industry-related information in high schools and community colleges.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

·        Clément C., R. Gazo, R. Beauregard, and T. Lihra. 2006. The effect of manufacturing defects on yield. Forest Products J. 56(1):60-65.

·        Clément C., and B. Bond. 2005. The effects of lumber width on part yields in gang-rip-first rough mills.  Forest Prod. J. 55(6):90-96.

·        Clément C., R. Beauregard, R. Gazo, and T. Lihra. 2005. Comparison of rough mill yield for white birch lumber between a conventional and a short-log sawmill. Forest Prod. J. 55(3):71-80.

·        Clément C., R. Gazo, R. Beauregard, and T. Lihra. 2004. Correspondence analysis as a tool towards optimizing the use of white birch in the panel industry. Wood Fiber Sci. 36(4):598-610.

·        Xu, W. C.E. Clément. 2005. Prevention of Sapwood Discoloration in Hardwood. Texas Forest Service. College Station, TX. 32p.

·        Eckelman Clément C., and W.W. Moschler. 2003. The use of computer-aided tomography to determine the critical points during lumber drying. Forest Products Society 57th Annual Meeting, Seattle WA. Abstracts p.41.

·        Gazo, R., Beauregard, R., Lihra, T. and C.Clément. 2003. Evaluating the remanufacturing potential of underutilized wood species : The case of white birch (Betula papyrifera). IUFRO - All Division 5 Conference.Rotorua, New Zealand. Proceedings p.176.

·        Bond, B.H., and C. Clément. 2002. Comparison of steam and atomized water for conditioning of hardwood lumber. Forest Products Society 56th Annual Meeting, Madison WI. Abstracts p. 39.

·        Clément C., Y. Fortin, and A. Cloutier. 2000. Super Heated Vacuum Drying of Lumber. Forest Products Society 54th Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe NV.  Abstracts p.5.

·        Clément C., and Y. Fortin 1996. Calcul de la consommation énergetique au cours du séchage du bois [Total energy consumption while dry-kilning lumber (in French)]. Ateliers - Conférences sur le sechage, Deuxième édition; AMBSQ; Québec, QC. Proceedings p.1.

·        Riedl, B., Y. Ngangue Hseke, C. Clément, and A. Béliveau. 1996. Recycled Plastic Fibre - Wood Particleboard. Composites '96 and Oriented Polymers Symposium; Industrial Materials Institute, National Research Council Canada; Québec, QC. Proceedings p. 478. 

OTHER

• Member of the Forest Products Society (U.S.A.) [1996 –]
• Secretary/Treasurer Forest Products Society, Mid-South [2007 –]
• Trustee (Texas) Forest Products Society, Mid-South [2005-2007]
• Forest Products Journal: Peer-Reviewer for [2004 –]
• Member of the Society of Wood Science and Technology (U.S.A.) [1996 –]
• Member of the Society of American Foresters (U.S.A.) [2004 –]
• Member of the Texas Foresty Association (U.S.A.) [2004-2006]
• Member of the Louisiana Foresty Association (U.S.A.) [2007 –]
• Marketing Committee member, Texas Foresty Association [2005 – 2006]
• President FPS Student Chapter, Purdue University [1999-2000]
• Speaks and writes fluently in English and French.
• Familiar with simulation software (AweSim, ROMI), and optimization through algebraic modeling.
• Certified Forester (OIFQ – Québec) [1996 – 2001]
• Softwood lumber grading (AMBSQ – Québec) [1994]