List of Courses for PGD Forestry and Wood Technology

The underlisted core courses shall be registered for by all postgraduate diploma students. Specialization courses shall be selected from the list of electives to make a minimum of 15 units per semester. Candidates deficient in certain areas of the undergraduate programme shall be required to audit some relevant undergraduate courses.

Postgraduate Diploma in Forestry
Course Synopsis
FWT 750 Seminar (2 Units)
Instruction on the preparation, presentation and discussion of critical reviews of topics important to forestry and wood technology. This will be followed by individual student’s presentation of above reviews.

FWT 751 Research Methodology (2 Units)
This course is designed to expose students to the various approaches to research and documentation. Topics to be covered include types of research, information resources for research, types of research reports, and report writing.

FWT 753 Elements of Biometrics (3 Units)
Data description through descriptive statistics; common probability distributions; tests of hypotheses; analysis of variance; correlation and regression analysis.

FWT 754 Forest Project Analysis (2 Units)
Classification of renewable resources; projects; project evaluation techniques; estimation of costs and revenues; analysis of selected forest projects.

FWT 755 Project (3 Units)
Dissertation of not more than 7,000 words on original research in the student’s area of specialization under staff supervision.

FWT 756 Forest Management II (2 Units)
Yield control and management for optimization of set objectives; systems approach to forest management and application of operation research in forest management.

FWT 757 Silviculture (2 Units)
The study of problems of raising tree crops, application of ecological principles for establishment and maintenance of forests; seed technology, nursery and plantation practices.

FWT 759 Forest Mensuration (2 Units)
Theory of tree measurements; measurement and estimation of tree and stand growth attributes; concepts of stand structure, stand density and site quality; growth and yield evaluation.

FWT 761 Forest Management I (2 Units)
Principles of management, Forest economics and use of natural resources; preparation and evaluation of forest management plans; problems of resource management.

FWT 762 Forest Inventory (2 Units)
Forest inventory planning; sampling techniques for forest inventory execution; inventory data collection and processing; preparation of forest inventory reports.

FWT 763 Forest Policy, Law and Administration (3 Units)
Evaluation of existing forest and related natural resources policies; planning effective use of forest resources, study of existing laws in natural resource management; organization structures of forestry administration.

FWT 752 Basic Properties of Wood (2 Units)
Mechanism of wood formation; gross cellular ad molecular structure of wood; ultrastructure of wood cell wall; variations in wood structure; identification of principal commercial timber in Nigeria on gross characteristics, wood-water relation, flow in wood, density and specific gravity, mechanical properties and durability of wood.

FWT 758 Forest Interpretation of Remote Sensing Imagery (2 Units)
Basics of remote sensing systems, interpretation of remote sensing imageries, role of remote sensing in forestry.

FWT 760 Agroforestry Technology & Practice (2 Units)
Tropical land use problems, agroforestry systems and practices, classification of agroforestry systems, plant management in agroforestry, ecological, economic and sociological principles and benefits, multi-disciplinary approach. Land and tree tenure issues.

FWT 765 Forest Land Use & Environmental Conservation (2 Units)
Different forest land uses, Problems of natural resources, effects of deforestation, land degradation, desertification, erosion, flood, conservation measures, role of local communities and women in conservation and biological diversity.

FWT 766 Forest Products Marketing (2 Units)
Features of wood products market in the world, marketing systems and environment, market measurement and forecasting, marketing information system, Product policy decisions; Principles of cost and profit analysis.

FWT 768 Plant Maintenance (2 Units)
Types of machines in the wood industry, Basic machine parts, Power supply system in machine, Principles of plant maintenance, Saw and tool maintenance.

FWT 769 Elements of Social Forestry (2 Units)
Concepts of social forestry, models of social forestry, role of social forestry in environmental stability, agricultural production, fuelwood crisis, farm employment and income generation, policy issues, gender and institutional considerations.

FWT 770 Finished Products of Wood (3 Units)
Furniture design and manufacture, construction of doors and windows, prefabricated wooden houses, packaging articles, musical instruments and technical articles.

FWT 771 Principles of Agroforestry (2 Units)
Concept of agroforestry, the tree/crop associations, environmental basis, human and economic aspects, institutional issues, diagnostic and design methodology.

FWT 772 Timber Drying and Protection (2 Units)
Reasons for drying timber, Principles and methods of drying, Adaptations of air and kiln drying. Seasoning defects. Other seasoning methods e.g. solar. Pre-treatment processes impregnation wood preservatives and method of preservative application. Diffusion processes, safety devices during application of pesticides.

FWT 773 Wood Composites (3 Units)
Raw materials and production technology for plywood, particleboard and fibreboard. Refining of wood-based panels and special products.

FWT 774 Wood Adhesives (2 Units)
Principle of adhesion, adhesion theories relevant to wood; types and classification of wood adhesives, wood-adhesive bond formation and performance, the basic bonding process, testing and evaluation of adhesives and bonded products.

FWT 775 Sawmilling (2 Units)
General considerations of sawmills in the world. Wood raw materials for Sawmilling. Log handling. Sawmill machinery. Frame saw technology, Bandsaw technology and Circular saw technology. Timber handling and grading. Production, planning and control.

FWT 776 Wood Structures (2 Units)
Introduction to the principle of structural engineering. General requirements for structural designs; loading standard dimension of structural timber. Grade stresses and grouping of timber species. Design of beans, columns, trusses and other structural elements in timber and timber connector.

FWT 779 Pulp and Paper Technology (2 Units)
Conversion of wood to mechanical and chemical pulps. Chemicals recovery systems. Bleaching of mechanical and chemical pulp. Stock preparation, sheet formation, finishing and coating of paper.

FWT 781 Tree Harvesting Technology (2 Units)
Sections and organization of tree harvesting, methods of tree harvesting, felling, logging, and skidding operations. Transportation of logs. Equipment for tree harvesting. Forest roads – construction and maintenance.

FWT 764 Non-wood Forest Products (2 Units)
Identification and classification of non-wood forest resources; processing methods and uses of non-wood forest products; contribution of non-wood forest products to rural economy.