Teaching Activities
Fiber Research Group
PSS 5376: Advanced Studies in Cotton Fibers
(graduate course, 3 credits – 45 hours per semester).
Course description: This course focuses on the examination of the structure of cotton fibers, the meaning and measurement of cotton fiber properties, and the issues related to increasing cotton’s use value as an industrial raw material. More information ...
PSS 5377: Cotton Fiber: Genotype to Phenotype Characterization
(graduate course, 3 credits – 45 hours per semester).
Course description: This course provides a fundamental understanding of the complex relationships that exist between cotton fiber morphogenesis (i.e., the biogenesis of the primary and the secondary cell wall), the genetics of fiber development and fiber quality, fiber macro- and microstructures (such as number of twists, reversals, fiber perimeter, orientation of the fibrils, degree of crystallinity, degree of polymerization, molecular weight and its distribution), and fiber physical and mechanical properties (such as fiber maturity and strength). More information ...
PSS 5370: US and Global Cotton Fiber – Textile Industries
(graduate course, 3 credits).
Course description: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the problems, concepts and solutions integral to modern natural fiber production, development and research by examining factors affecting cotton production, processing, marketing, and utilization as an industrial raw material for textile manufacturing. As the course progresses, the student will be exposed to intensive instruction in a variety of economic, practical, biological and mechanical processes central to the modern cotton and fiber global industries. More information ...