Department of Food Science & Technology

Seiberling Endowment

We are pleased to announce that the Seiberling Endowed Chair comes much closer to reality. The purchase of Electrol Specialties Company (owner: Dale Seiberling) by Entegris enables completion of 50% of the funding for the Dairy and Food Engineering Chair.

Some may not be aware of this famous Ohio State food engineer. Dale Seiberling earned two degrees (BSc '50; MSc '51) from our department and taught here for seven years. Best known as the CIP Evangelist, he is credited for developing dairy engineering programs, advancing basic research on homogenization and for applied research on CIP cleaning. He joined Klenzade Products in 1957 as Engineering Consultant. Following acquisition of Klenzade by Economics Laboratory, Inc. (now EcoLab) Dale became General Manager of a newly formed Equipment-Engineering Division where he supervised 40 people. Dale designed, installed, and started more than 100 highly automated processing systems and approximately 500 CIP systems in the US and several foreign countries between 1970-1976.

Dale formed Seiberling Associates, Inc. (SAI) in July, 1976 as Principal and Director of Engineering, overseeing all process and CIP engineering in a very "hands-on" manner. He was the catalyst in development of innovative concepts and solutions for the company. Projects are listed at www.seiberling.com Dale has over 40 years of dairy facility and process design experience.

He began application of dairy-based CIP design to the brewing process in 1964, to food processes in 1968, to pharmaceutical processes in 1974-78, and to blood fractionation processes in the 1980's. This successful technology was applied by Dale to fully automated processes for oral drugs, dry drug processes, CIP cleanable design and biotech fermentations. Dale was an early contributor to ISPE CIP/SIP training programs and continues to support industry training. He published several CIP articles in pharmaceutical journals and contributed CIP chapters to eight books.

Following the outbreak of several milk-borne disease epidemics in 1985, Dale helped train State and Federal Regulatory Agencies. His work helped eliminate cross-connections, expedite pasteurization control in American dairies, and improve building and equipment layout. He has four patents including (a) separator disc washer (b) continuous curd producing system, (c) fixed ball spray cleaning device and (d) a continuous standardizing/blending system.

Improving the safety of food through intelligent engineering remains a legacy of Seiberling that continues to this day at Ohio State. OSU Food Science is a comprehensive array of cutting edge process technologies that represent the next chapter in food safety engineering. This program started 50 years ago with an outstanding student named Dale Seiberling, and is now poised to impact our world with food innovation.

 

Department of Food Science & Technology

110 Parker Food Science & Technology Bldg.

2015 Fyffe Road

Columbus, OH 43210

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