CHATTANOOGA ENGINEERS CLUB http://www.utc.edu/~engrcs/cec/cec.htm Volume LI March 27, 2000 12:00 noon Number 11 The Cellar at Union Square THIS WEEK____________________________________________________________ Brian Taylor, mechanical engineering student, and Rebecca Williams, chemical engineering student, will present their UTC Senior Design class project. As part of their senior interdisciplinary design course, a team of 11 engineering students is working on a real-world project sponsored by Roadtec. This project requires that the team evaluate the feasibility of mounting an asphalt bonding agent (tack) distribution system directly on existing asphalt paving equipment, thereby, eliminating the need for a separate truck for tack distribution. Testing is planned for this semester. Based on the results of these tests and engineering analyses performed by the team, conclusions about the feasibility of this concept will be presented to Roadtec at the end of April. LAST WEEK____________________________________________________________ Martha Rollins, the Manager of Bioenergy and Renewable Energy Technologies in the Public Power Institute, spoke about TVA's Renewable Program Area. Ms. Rollins highlighted the benefits of renewable energy to the public and to public power utilities. These benefits include neutralizing greenhouse gases, economic development, and incentive credits. She indicated that significant air emission reductions are possible, as shown by the co-firing demonstrations at the TVA coal plants Colbert and Allen. The majority of the TVA work is on biomass, and some wind power. Rollins spoke about the TVA Green Power program, which will provide electricity consumers a choice. Approximately 8.7MW of new generation will be grid-connected in support of this program - 2MW solar, 6.5MW land-fill gas, and 225kW solar. Renewable energy and the commitment that TVA has made to environmentally friendly energy generation is a direction that will serve the public good in the Tennessee Valley and the Nation. (Meeting summary summated by Mike Ingram.) COMING PROGRAMS____________________________________________________ April 3 - Joe Kilpatrick, TVA PPI, update on Home Automation technology/industry and the Frostless Heat Pump technology. April 10 - UTC Senior Design April 17 - Greg Brodie, TVA, "Wetland Development for Industrial Clean-up" April 24 - Philip E. Luce, PE, Vice-president of ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller and Raymond A. Cordon, PE, Project Manager, Riverbank Infiltration, an award winning water intake project at Louisville, KY SCIENCE FAIR________________________________________________________ Senior Division awards were presented on March 16, 7:00 p.m. at the Roland Hayes Concert Hall at UTC. Will Heltsley, Tullahoma High School, took first place award for his engineering project, "An Innovative Laser Bonding Technique for Aluminum /Carbon Fiber Composites (Phase II)". Jon Murphy, Tullahoma High School, placed second with his physics project, "Investigation of Laser Diffraction by a Fractal Aperture", and Adam Bryant, Tullahoma High School, won third place award for his mathematics project, "Analysis of a Class of Non-scaling Fractals". Other awards were also presented, a detail list will be posted on CEC web page. FUTURE BULLETINS____________________________________________________ Starting in May, the hardcopy form of our bulletin will become a monthly issue. CEC will continue to post the weekly bulletin electronically. Uwe Zitzow will be designing the format for the monthly issue, please contact Uwe with any suggestions, uwe@chattanooga.net, 756-4321. --- Chattanooga Technology Council Mailing List | A free service provided by To unsubscribe, e-mail: ctc-unsubscribe@cdc.net | CDC Internet, Inc. For additional commands, e-mail: ctc-help@cdc.net | http://www.cdc.net "