As someone who's taken his share of engineering and material science courses over the years, these accreditation bodies are influenced by the professors, the Ph.D.s, whom you can fund through grad students. The federal government can put grants through NSERC and various institutions like that. Are there not professors at UBC, Simon Fraser, wherever, who are material science experts with wood, who would then provide input into the professional bodies? Is that a way that education could go forward to promote what you're talking about?
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