JTATM - North Carolina State University

Mission Statement

To establish a high quality forum relevant to the needs of global industry and higher education that will provide leadership in the timely dissemination of information dealing with all aspects of textile and apparel, technology and management.

Creative Textile Education for Non-Textile Graduate Students
Pam Banks-Lee, Ph.D.

Success in the global textile complex requires involvement of persons from a wide variety of disciplines such as engineers, designers and artists, chemists and other scientists, economists, marketers, and professionals. Like our industry, the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University encourages students from disciplines other than Textiles to enroll in our graduate programs. To help students who are desiring graduate education in Textiles, but do not hold an undergraduate degree in Textiles, the College of Textiles offers "Understanding the Textile Complex" as a introductory textile class.

The new course offered Fall 2002, provided students with a variety of textile related topics, beggining at the fiber stage and ending with the consumer.

Because the course surveys the many disciplines utilized in textiles, diverse faculty from both the Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management Department (TATM) and the Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science Department (TECS) join together and served as instructors for the course.

Using multiple faculty members as instructors for this course also allows students to gain first hand information about the many ongoing research efforts in the College.

Students also visit research and teaching laboratories and discuss ongoing projects with support staff.

The following is a list of lectures presented:

Lecture	TOPIC	INSTRUCTOR
1	Introduction and tour of Textile facilities	Banks-Lee
2	Supply Chain Management	Thoney
3	The Business of Manufacturing	Jones and Hergeth
4	Fibers and their Properties	King
5	Filament Fiber Formation	Pourdeyhimi
6	Staple Yarn Production and Properties	Banks-Lee
7	Modern Yarn Processing Systems	Oxenham
8	Woven Fabric Production and Properties	Seyam
9	Knit Fabric Production and Properties	Smith
10	Nonwoven Fabric Production and Properties	Pourdeyhimi
11	Dyeing and Finishing	Mock
12	Product Fabrication	Ghosh
13	Retail and Marketing	Cassill
14	Automation in Textiles	Hodge
15	Product Development/Design	Powell and Istook

This course is also offered to off-campus students who are interested in Textile graduate education through the TOTE Program (Televised Off-campus Textile Education). This creative approach provides students with diverse educational background and the knowledge base of the ever-changing textile industry.

College of Textiles
P.O. Box 8301
Raleigh, NC 27695-8301
Telephone: (919) 515-6646
FAX: (919) 515-3733
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Last Site Revision:
October 3, 2002