Background
Clayton, Joe Todd was born on October 2, 1924 in Etowah, Tennessee, United States. Son of Joe Madison and Onye (Rymer) Clayton.
Agricultural and food engineering educator
Clayton, Joe Todd was born on October 2, 1924 in Etowah, Tennessee, United States. Son of Joe Madison and Onye (Rymer) Clayton.
Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering, University Tennessee, 1949. Postgraduate, University Tennessee, 1950. Master of Science, University Illinois at Urbana, 1951.
Doctor of Philosophy (National Science Foundation science faculty fellow), Cornell University, 1962.
Instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1951-1954;
assistant professor, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1955-1957;
assistant professor, U. Connecticut, 1954-1955;
associate professor, U. Massachusetts at Amherst, 1957-1961;
professor agricultural engineering, U. Massachusetts at Amherst, 1961-1966;
professor, head department food engineering, U. Massachusetts at Amherst, 1966-1985;
professor, food engineering, U Massachusetts at Amherst, since 1985. Visiting professor bioengineering, North Atlantic Treaty Organization senior fellow science U. Reading, England, since 1971. Chairman science development Research and Development Associates, since 1981.
Visiting scientist Food Engineering Laboratory, United States Army Natick Research and Development Center, 1983-1984. International lecturer British Society of Chemical Industry, 1978.
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow American Society Agricultural Engineers American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mem Institute Food Technologists (professional member), International Society Biometeorology, Panam.
Federation Engineering Societies (United States national committee since 1984), New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Tau Sigma.
Married Helen Deane Harris, August 30, 1946. Children— Jeffrey Todd, Jill Elaine, Joel Harris.