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Background
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After high school I went on to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at Lehigh University. While at Lehigh I lived at the Delta Upsilon fraternity. In general I enjoyed my engineering studies. I also worked on a number of cars and bikes for my friends and teachers. On December 2, 1977 I met Patti Foyder from Ossining New York. A mere 8 years later we would get married. I graduated in 1979 with a bachelors in mechanical engineering and a minor in humanities perspectives in technology.
I'm Joe, husband toPatti and father to Joey and Matt. Click here for some family pictures. I was born in White Plains New York to Barbara M and Joseph R. Dille on December 22, 1957. I also have a sister Cathy who is 2 1/2 years younger. Growing up I enjoyed horseback riding, working on cars, motorcycles and flying. I graduated from White Plains high school class of 1975 During my senior year my dad and I built a replica of a 1927 Bugatti on a VW chassis. The car was a lot of fun and I stayed out of trouble because it had very little horsepower. I also got my private pilots license while in high school.During the summer of 1979 I worked for Edgar Oppenheimer, a consultant engineer. This was great fun as I was able to see a bunch of companies and do a little work for each. I learned a lot. One of the companies was AMF, who owned Harley Davidson at the time. Ed was kind enough to persuade several of the guys there to let me ride their bikes. Cool. I also worked on a heat transfer program for high frequency welding, an instrumented bowling ball launcher and an ultrasonic abdomen scanner.
After my undergraduate work I was convinced by my faculty advisor that I should stay on for my masters. He managed to get me a research fellowship to work on advanced energy related topics. My thesis required me to run experiments so I had to build a test set up. Building it taught me how to work with a purchasing bureaucracy and machinists. The test rig allowed me to take high speed photos of air bubbled going through a bed of glass beads. In 1981 I wrote my thesis "Particle Ejection Mechanisms in Gas Fluidized Beds". This could be helpful for someone designing a fluidized bed combustor for coal. In the spring of 1981 I graduated with my masters in mechanical engineering.
After graduating I went to work for Westinghouse Electric in their Combustion TurbineSystems Division (CTSD) in the Long Range Development (LRD) department located in Concordville Pennsylvania. Combustion turbine is a fancy name for a gas turbine which is used to generate electricity. These were very large, about the size of a railroad car and generated 100 MW of electricity. My job was to estimate and analyze new power generation systems that use coal as a fuel. This is still an "emerging" technology. This was a cool job, but I was laid off due to the fact that they had not sold a system for over a year. About 2/3 of the work force was let go and the remaining people were relocated to Orlando Florida.
After leaving Westinghouse I took a job at Brooks Instrunent in Hatfield Pennsylvania as a product development engineer. Brooks is one of the leading manufacturers of flow measurement can control instrumentation in the world. During my first years at Brooks I worked on developing flow controllers for small flows of gas using a thermal principal. My thermal analysis was used to develop the flow sensor for a new line of improved instruments. Many of the mass flow products end up in the processing equipment used to make semiconductors. Due to the importance of the semiconductor industry to our business I became involved in SEMI which is the standards setting organization for the semiconductor industry. Since around 1985 I have served on the mass flow controllers task force, and for the last 9 years or so I have been the co-chair.
After 7 years in Engineering I was ready for a change of pace and I took a position as Product Marketing Manger for mass flow products. During my time in Marketing I made several lasting contributions including establishing a technical training program for sales people and creating a product sales release package. I also wrote the product specification for the product that became our biggest dollar sales model for the mass flow line.
Marketing was a lot of fun, but I felt a need to return to my roots, so after 5 years I went back to Engineering as a Principal Engineer in the R&D group. I have worked on several projects including the Brooks TruCal (patent pending) calibration process. I am now a principal engineer in the Quantim Coriolis mass flow R&D program and more patents are pending. You can have a look at Brooks from the air.
Joe's Patents
In 1999 I received 3 patents for work I did on a new method for calibrating mass flow controllers. This is particularly useful for the semiconductor industry which is a big user of mass flow controllers. The following links lead to an image of the front page of each patent. The patents also list my co-inventors Gary Campbell, Scott Bump and Bill White. Brooks has given the tradename "TruCal" to this process and uses it in their advertising. It is cool to see this on coffee mugs, shirts and the product!
- Patent 5,911,238 Thermal mass flowmeter and mass flow controller, flowmetering system and method, 6/15/99
- Patent 5,944,048 Method and apaparatus for detecting and controlling mass flow, 8/31/99
- Patent 5,975,126 Method and apaparatus for detecting and controlling mass flow, 11/2/99
- Patent D436,876, Mass Flow Controller, 1/30/01
- Patent 6,513,392, Coriolis Mass Flow Controller, 2/4/03
- Patent 6,526,839, Coriolis Mass Flow Controller, 3/4/03
- Patent 6,606,917, High Purity Coriolis Mass Flow Controller, 8/19/03
- Patent 6,748,813, Coriolis Mass Flow Controller, 6/15/04
- Patent 6,769,301, Coriolis Mass Flow Controller, 8/3/04
- Patent 6,997,033, Flow Meter Pickoff Assembly and Flowmeter Pickoff Adjustment Method for Nulling Flow Meter Zero Offset, 2/14/06
- Patent 7,032,462, Mass Flow Measurement Device, 4/25/06
- Patent 7,104,275, Pinch Valve, 9/12/06 Sole Inventor
- Patent 7,111,519, Tube assembly and method, 9/26/06 Sole Inventor
- Patent 7,114,517,High purity fluid delivery system, 10/3/06
- Patent 7,117,751, Coriolis mass flow sensor having optical sensors, 10/10/06
- Patent 7,168,329, Low mass Coriolis mass flowmeter having a low mass drive system, 1/30/07
Joseph R. Dille (10/22/30 - 2/17/99)
On February 17, 1999 my dad passed away. He ment a lot to me as he taught me many things and he was a good friend. As an expression of my love I have created the Joseph R. Dille memorial web page. I would appreciate it if you would visit and learn more about him and share your rememberances of him.
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