TERRANCE E. ("Terry") CONNERS
Associate Extension Professor – Forest Products
Contact
me:
214 T.P. Cooper Building (office 202)
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0073
Tel: 859-257-2463
Fax: 859-323-1031
E-mail: tconners@uky.edu
Click here to visit my Extension page
Education:
B.S. in Forest Products, The Pennsylvania State University, 1976
M.S. in Wood Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts, 1979
Ph.D. in Forestry and Forest Products, Virginia Tech, 1985
Academic Interests:
Wood-moisture relations; Air quality and emissions from wood drying facilities; lean manufacturing
Personal Interests:
clock repair, photography, family, etc.
Professional Affiliation:
Forest Products Society, Society for Wood Science and Technology, Railway Tie Association
Students supervised:
Paul Stiglbauer, Ph.D. candidate
Recent projects:
Ongoing: Air emissions from OSB Wood Drying Operations
Selected publications:
1) Conners, T.E. and T.E. McLain. 1988. Modeling moisture gradient effects on bending properties. Wood and Fiber Science 20(2):226–242.
2) Conners, T.E. and P.J. Medvecz. 1991. Wood as a bimodular material. Wood and Fiber Science 24(4):413–423.
3) Conners, T.E. and R.D. Seale. 1996. Mississippi State University’s Wood Magic Science Fair. Tappi Journal 79(6):61–65.
4) Conners, T.E., L.L. Ingram, A. Thompson, M.C. Templeton, S. Diehl, W. Su and S. Banerjee. 1999. Effect of seasonal variation in southern pine terpenes on dryer emissions. Tappi International Environmental Conference Proceedings pp. 647–653, April 18–21, Nashville, TN. Published in the Proceedings.
5) Conners, T.E., L.L. Ingram, W. Su, S. Banerjee, A.T. Dalton, M.C. Templeton and S.V. Diehl. 2001. Seasonal variation in southern pine terpenes. Forest Products Journal 51(6):89–94.
6) Conners, T.E., H. Yan and S. Banerjee. 2002. Mechanism of VOC release from high-temperature softwood lumber drying. Wood and Fiber Science 34(4): 666–669.
7) Tangirala, P., J. Robert Heath, Arthur Radun and T.E. Conners. 2006. Development and Validation of a Programmable Logic Device (PLD) Based Sensor and Processor Microarchitecture System for Equilibrium Moisture Content Calculation in Wood Industries. To be presented at the 2006 IEE Sensors Applications Symposium held in Houston, Texas, February 7–9, 2006.
8) Stiglbauer, P., T. Conners, and S. Banerjee. 2005. Influence of knife angle and ambient temperature on fines generation from flakers. Submitted to Forest Products Journal. In press.