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Paper Science & Engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science (e.g. chemistry and physics) with mathematics to the process of converting renewable bio-resources into useful and valuable products. Similar to chemical engineering in many aspects, the field employs the common principles of process engineering and unit operations to the manufacture of pulp, paper and other biomaterials.

Paper Science & Engineering encompasses the design and analysis of a wide variety of thermal and chemical unit operations employed in the manufacture of paper; addressing the preparation of its raw materials from trees or other natural resources via a pulping process, chemical and mechanical pretreatment of these recovered biopolymer (e.g. principally, although not solely, cellulose-based) fibers in a fluid suspension, the high-speed forming and initial dewatering of a non-woven web, the development of bulk sheet properties via control of energy and mass transfer operations, as well as post-treatment of the sheet with coating, calendering, and other chemical and mechanical processes.

Universities offering BS, MS and PhD degrees in Paper Science & Engineering, often as a specialization within Chemical Engineering, include:

• USA
  • Auburn University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Miami University
  • North Carolina State University
  • SUNY ESF
  • University of Maine
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of Washington
  • University of Wisconsin
  • Western Michigan University

• Canada
  • Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
  • McGill University
  • McMaster University
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of New Brunswick
  • Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres
  • University of Toronto

• Europe
  • Grenoble INP
  • Helsinki University of Technology
  • Lund Institute of Technology
  • Tampere University of Technology
  • Technische Universitat Graz
  • University of Manchester

• Asia
  • Monash University
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
  • South China University of Technology