CHATTANOOGA ENGINEERS CLUB

http://www.chattanooga.net/engineer/CEC

 

NEXT MEETING ___________________________________________________

Monday, June 4, 12:00 noon

Cellar Restaurant at Union Square

Downtown, Chattanooga

TOPIC: Peeling the Power Quality Onion

Arshad Mansoor, Engineering Manager, EPRI-PEAC, Knoxville

Poorly performing electrical equipment is often not identified until it has sustained substantial damage. In some cases an entire production plant may be rendered inoperable by such equipment. Fortunately, there are teams of "ghost busters" that can assess the electrical characteristics of an entire plant and determine the sources of potential faults and power quality problems before they inflict mayor damage. What’s more, the team can determine the best way the plant should deal with the problems.

Arshad Mansoor, Engineering Manager, EPRI-PEAC, Knoxville, will describe how such teams operate and the tools they use to do so.

This will be a joint meeting of the Chattanooga Engineers Club and the Electrical Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEEE). Mike Ingram will be the program chairman.

FUTURE MONDAY MEETINGS ______________________________________

June 11: Science Fair award winners, Seth Heltsley and Ted Lee will describe the projects they submitted and relate some of their experiences at the International Science and Engineering Fair in San Diego, California. Both students were first-place prizewinners of several awards; one of them placed first in the Grand Award.


June 18: The Electric Power Industry: Its History and Likely Future.
Terry Boston, TVA. This will be joint CEC/IEEE meeting

June 25: Intelligent Transportation Systems
Dr. Rekha Pillai - Oak Ridge National Lab

July 2: TVA's Regenesys Project - Installation of a 12 -Mw Flow Battery
for Peak Shaving and Load Shifting. Joe Hogland and Mick Ray, TVA.

This will be joint CEC/IEEE meeting.

Other upcoming presentations:

How Many Engineers Does It Take to Move A Light House? The Cape Hatteras Project. Randy Knott, Law Engineering. (July)

Trends in Storm Water Management – Bill Payne, Cha. Dept. of Public Works (July)

Very Recent Developments in Heart Imaging Technology (July or August)

The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Storage Project (August)

Water for the People (August)

Genetic Engineering (September)

HERE ARE WE ! _______________________________________________

Unless we announce it otherwise, our meetings are held at noontime every Monday at the Cellar Restaurant, in basement floor of the Tallan Building, at the corner of Chestnut Street and MLK Blvd. Our meeting room and luncheon service are available by 11:40 a.m. Lunch buffet is available for $10 per person. No reservation is required. Our business meeting begins at noon, followed by the speaker's presentation around 12:15 p.m. The meeting adjourns at 1:00 p.m. Parking is available free of charge at the Days Inn across the street (M.L. King Blvd. and Carter Street). If you park there, please leave some type of note on your car's dashboard to indicate that you are attending the Chattanooga Engineers Club.