NEXT MEETING ___________________________________________________

Monday, June 18, 12:00 noon

Cellar Restaurant at Union Square

Downtown, Chattanooga

A Joint CEC/IEEE Meeting.

TOPIC: The Electric Power Industry: Its History and Likely Future.

Brownouts, blackouts, soaring power rates, deregulation and takeovers. These words are not new to Webster’s dictionary, but they have never been used so extensively as they are today. What’s happening to the electric power industry? What is its future likely to be; and how will it affect our future?

Tom Hancock, Vice President, TVA Transmission Operations and Maintenance, will provide us a perspective of how electric utilities came to be the way they are today and the current forces that are effecting major changes in the way that industry will operate in the future. Tom will also describe the approach TVA is taking to meet its present challenges.

PAST MEETINGS ______________________________________

June 11 - Award winners, Seth Heltsley and Ted Lee described the projects they submitted to the International Science this year. Ted developed a technique for determining the presence of sickle -cell anemia in red blood cells using a laser beam’s diffraction pattern. Seth developed and demonstrated a robotic serpent whose unique mechanical and pneumatic design allows it to slither in the natural motion of a serpent. It was difficult to envision that these two bright minds belong to students who are still only in the 11^th grade. Our hats go off to them and to their supporting teachers from Tullahoma High School, Harold Liner and Frank Vandant.

FUTURE MONDAY MEETINGS ______________________________________

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 another joint CEC/IEEE meeting.

July 16: Translocation of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. (But the real issue is: "How many engineers does it take to move a lighthouse?" Randy Knott, of Law Engineering in Atlanta will tell us).

July 23: Trends in Storm Water Management – Bill Payne, Cha. Dept. of Public Works

July 30: Field Trip (possibly a tour the printing presses of the Chattanooga News Free Press)

August 13: The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Storage Project

August 20: Fresh Water for the People – A global view of dealing with an increasingly scarce resource

August 27: Recent Developments in Medical Imaging Technology

September 3: No meeting, in observance of Labor Day

September 10: Genetic Engineering – Advances and Prospects

September 24: Sewage and Wastewater Treatment – New Requirements, New Technology

WHERE WE MEET ___________________________________________

All these meetings will be held at the Cellar Restaurant at Union Square Downtown, Chattanooga from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. Free parking is available for this occasion at the Days Inn Motel (on Carter St. and MLK Blvd) – courtesy of the Days Inn management. (If you park there, please leave a note on your dashboard indicating you are attending the Engineers Club).