Timothy M. Young is a Research Associate Professor in the Forest Products Center at the University of Tennessee.  He has a M.S. in Statistics from the University of Tennessee and a M.S. and B.S. in Forest Sciences from the University of Wisconsin.  He earned a PhD in Natural Resources with emphasis in Statistics from The University of Tennessee in 2007.  He has taught more than 450 manufacturing personnel from more than 20 forest products companies in the principles of continuous improvement as applied to wood products manufacture.  

 

He has written numerous refereed articles in academic and trade journals for the forest products industry and in other areas, such as reliability and management.  He has conducted applied research for a wide variety of groups, both public and private.  He has four years of front-line manufacturing experience with Georgia-Pacific Corporation in MDF manufacture.  He also has work experience with the U.S. Forest Service, plus, previously named, Champion International Corporation.  He has extensive grants from the private sector and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  His current areas of research include the application of real-time statistical process control to wood products manufacture, multi-sensor data fusion, statistical and heuristic real-time process modeling of wood composites and developing new statistical-based reliability methods.