Pumps in a Brewery (and Pump Troubleshooting Exercises)

Tim Marbach is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), where he teaches courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics and project engineering. He served as lead instructor for the Packaging and Process Technology Module of the UC Davis Master Brewer Program from 2008 to 2015. Tim received his Bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in Norman. His industrial experience includes four years at the U.S. Army Fuels and Lubricants Research Facility at the Southwest Research Institute and a U.S. Department of Energy Industry Fellowship at Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation. He has received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the CSUS College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society) Outstanding Teaching Award. His research interests include energy efficiency, combustion and thermochemical processing of biofuels.

Gary Grande performed in a number of roles in a variety of industrial environments over a forty year period. The most recent of these was Miller Brewing Company where he held numerous positions in the brewery production and maintenance functions, and also directed several engineering projects and upgrades. He also served as an internal packaging and process consultant for breweries within the Miller system. He directs the consultancy and research functions at the Siebel Institute, as well as managing the Process Technology module of the WBA International Course in Brewing Technology. He lectures part of that module as well as other Siebel Institute courses. He is also licensed as a Broadcast Engineer by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.