Welcome to Stebbing Engineering and Consulting

Education:
  
    Studied at UCal, Johns Hopkins University, Loyola, Oklahoma State University, University of
    Wisconsin.

   Graduated from The University of The State of New York: BS Physics
   and BS Operations Management

Professional Engineering:

    Registered Professional Engineer Nebraska
    (Formerly in Iowa and Colorado) 

     Mechanical
    Electrical
    Structural
    Environmental



Licensed State Electrical Contractor (Master Electrician equivalent) Nebraska.

Owner, President, and Chief Engineer, Stebbing Engineering, a division of Accelerated Technologies Corp
   
    Design/build/operate alcohol fuel refinery.
    Manufacturer equipment for alcohol fuel plants. 
    Manufacturer specialized compressed air dryers.
    Consulting and design engineering for commercial and industrial clients.
        Projects include retail grocery supermarkets, motels, and department stores, bottling
        plants, paper processors, misc industrial and commercial clients.
    Invented, patented, and promoted licenses for scrap tire process replacing coal for steel
    melting.                  


Career

Special Projects Engineer, Engineering Supervisor, Nucor Steel:
     Design/build/construct mill equipment or processes such as continuous caster, ladle
     metallurgical station, plant air compressors, vacuum degasser, arc furnace EBT conversion,
     design build custom oxy/fuel burners, and a multitude of other custom designed, built on
     site steel manufacturing equipment.

   Special assignments:
     Experimental 54″ molten-metal-to-strip caster.
     SPC coordinator for quality improvements.
     Safety Activities Committee Chairman: helped see a large improvement in accident  
     statistics.

Contract Manager, Kinning and Reil Inc:
     Misc industrial projects in the western United States: Goodyear plants, a coal fired electrical 
     power plant, a truck transmission plant and military bases. Scope of work involved millwright
     or mechanical construction, steam, plumbing, and HVAC. Projects highly profitable, with
     excellent ROI. Created and maintained high level of professionalism resulting in multiple
     repeat opportunities.

Construction Coordinator, Nucor:
     Design/build 2nd mill in Nebraska. Consisted of melting, casting, rolling and finishing. Much 
     of the equipment was in house custom design and built. Noted for minimum maintenance
     problems with outstanding ROI and long term continuous ROA.

Maintenance Manager, Nucor:
     Hire, train, organize maintenance department. Helped design and build equipment for the 
     new green field site. Set up shop and fabricated a lot of the equipment on site with 
     limited budget. Hired and trained many local individuals who became highly capable.
     Built our own continuous caster, walking beam reheat furnace, cooling bed, and other   
     equipment. Department became cost efficient and effective, with high morale and “can do”
     attitude.

Project Engineer, Eastern Stainless Steel Co, Baltimore:
     Design/build and start up new or revamped facilities such as walking beam reheat furnace
     and slab mill complex such as: Slab casters, 48″ Strip grinding line. Slab torch cutting line,
     and AOD vessel. Made big improvements to costs and quality often with very old equipment.

Manager of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling:
     Preventive maintenance scheduling and major outage planning, manpower efficiency
     studies and cost cutting measures.

Maintenance Supervisor:
     Supervise area maintenance for arc furnaces, slab casting, hot mill, bar yard, substations, air
     compressors, misc stainless coil and plate processing lines: Annealing, pickling, Sendzimer
     and 2 and 4-high rolling, slitting, roller and tension leveling and cut-to-length lines for
     sheet. Supervised mechanics, electricians, welders, pipe-fitters, machinists, developed and
     successfully implemented training and certification testing program for millwrights and
     mechanics.

Past and Present Affiliations:
     National Society of Professional Engineers
     The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
     The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
     Association of Iron and Engineers (AIST)
   

Invented and patented processes for using scrap tires, or plastics as a chemical fuel source for melting steel in electric furnaces.

List of Patent Applications:

https://patents.justia.com/inventor/franklin-leroy-stebbing

Outstanding reputation for getting job done, with minimum disruptions, under budget, on time, high craftsmanship, with a smooth start up and commissioning.

Contact us will your engineering needs or questions, we love a good challenge!