Dan C. Milholland is nationally recognized for his
expertise in filter testing and cleanroom contamination control in the
semiconductor, aerospace, and pharmaceutical industries.
He completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies
at North Carolina State University where he was awarded a Master's degree
in nutritional biochemistry. He has also completed three additional
courses of study at the Harvard University School of Public Health.
Milholland began in the air filtration business in the
mid-1970's as a service manager for a company that sold air filters. That
experience was the springboard for founding Biocon in November 1980.
Dan Milholland...
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Attended "In-place Filter Testing Workshop," at the
Harvard University School of Public Health.
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Attended Harvard School of Public Health "Air
Contamination Control Manufacturer's Workshop".
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Former member of the National Sanitation Foundation
Advisory Committee Standard - Number 49. (Class II Laminar Flow
Biohazard Cabinetry).
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Member of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and
Technology (IEST) Standards committee for RP-CC006.2 (Testing
Cleanrooms).
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Has served as National Director of the IEST.
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Member of the IEST Working Group 100 for the revision
of Federal Standard 209D.
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Developed and presented a three day cleanroom testing
program for Sematech in Austin, TX, 1993.
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Served as a co-instructor with Al Lieberman of PMS
(inventor of the particle counter) in presenting tutorials on cleanroom
monitoring at CleanRooms 91, CleanRooms 92 and CleanRooms 93 and The
Fine Particle Society, 1991.
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Served as a co-instructor with Bob Donovan in
presenting tutorials on particle measurement methods at
Microcontamination 90, IEST 1991, and at the ICCCS in London in 1992.
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Served as a co-instructor with Bob Donovan in
presenting tutorials in Federal Standard 209E at the IEST 1993 meeting
in Las Vegas, NV.
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Milholland served as the keynote speaker for cleanroom
tutorials in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia in 1993.
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Milholland and Donovan initiated the Institute of
Environmental Sciences' tutorial series on contamination control
related topics, beginning with Federal Standard 209E in 1993.
Presentations have been made in San Francisco and Los Angles, CA,
Chicago, IL, Philadelphia, PA and San Juan, PR.
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Has served as the lead instructor for "Testing HEPA
Filters in Cleanrooms" for the Eagleson Institute, Sanford, Maine since
1992.
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Received the IES Maurice Simpson Technical Editors
Award for the technical article "A Three Dimensional Ultrasonic
Anemometer to Measure the Performance of Clean Zone Air Delivery" JIES,
Nov / Dec 93. Article was selected for "its excellence in the field of
contamination control."
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Has served as a member of the world's largest
semiconductor manufacturer's Quality Assurance Team since 1993.
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Was selected as a consultant for the LUM's Isolation
Barrier Research Project in 1994.
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Presented an award at CleanRooms 94 East for
"Outstanding service and continued excellence in contamination control
education."
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Was a primary presenter for the
"Barrier Users Group Symposium" in a presentation to the FDA in
Rockville, MD in May, 1995.
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Was selected to serve on the Expert
Council for the United States for ISO 14644-1 "Cleanrooms and
associated controlled environments - Part 1: Classification of airborne
particulates".
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Has assisted AAF International, Farr Filters, Filtra
Corporation, Flander's Filters, and Purolator to establish in house
testing programs to meet cleanroom industry requirements.
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Has assisted in the design and testing of cleanroom
ceiling systems to minimize turbulence for Daw Technologies, Hunt Air,
and Pace Clean-Pak.
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Served as a member of the Cleanroom Certification
Committee for the National Environment Balancing Bureau (NEBB) from
1993 to 2005. This is the committee that tests and "certifies" the
cleanroom certifiers.
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Was named Vice President and appointed to the Technical
Advisory Board of Pentagon Technologies in January 1999.
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Served as a principal investigator for an engineering
research study to determine the means to accurately measure and report
air velocities in aseptic filling lines for the Bayer Corporation.
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Served as a technical advisor for the testing and
validation of the isolation barriers for the Sterile 2000 project for
Pharmacia Upjohn.
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Assisted in the development of "factory acceptance" and
"on site" test procedures for minienvironment testing for semiconductor
process equipment.
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Served as a consultant to NASA,
Johnson Space Center for the design of the containment facility to
receive samples for Mars.
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Served as a consultant to McCrone and Associates, of
Westmont, IL in the prevention of cross contamination of in house
samples.
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IEST awarded him the
Willis J. Whitfield Award for contributions to the field of
contamination control through published papers, studies, reports, and
service on technical committees focusing on the testing of cleanrooms
in April 2002.
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Accepted position in 2006 as the IEST representative to
the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for ISO/TC 142, Cleaning Equipment
for Air and Other Gases.
