NEXT MEETING ___________________________________________________

Monday, June 25, 12:00 noon

Cellar Restaurant at Union Square

Downtown, Chattanooga

Topic: Intelligent Transportation Systems Help Meet the Transportation Challenge

Dr. Rekha S. Pillai, ORNL

A broad range of diverse technologies, known collectively as intelligent transportation systems (ITS), could hold the answer to many of our transportation problems. These systems exploit currently available and emerging computer, communication, and vehicle-sensing technologies to monitor, manage, and control the highway transportation system. With ITS, various levels of information will be available to make timely and informed travel decisions. People and goods can thus move safer and more efficiently. Furthermore, congestion, wasted energy and traffic accidents will be reduced.

Dr. Rekha S. Pillai will provide us an overview of what is happening today in the world of intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Pillai is a Program Leader and Project Manager in the Center for Transportation Analysis, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Additional information on ITS can be found at: www.itsa.org

PAST MEETINGS_____________________________________

Before a crowded and enthusiastic audience, Tom Hancock, Vice President of TVA’s Transmission Operations and Maintenance, provided us with a perspective of how electric utilities came to be the way they are today. He also reviewed the current forces that are effecting major changes in the way that industry will operate in the future. He emphasized the largely ignored importance electric transmission lines play in allowing utilities to meet the increasing demands for electric power. Tom also described the approach TVA is taking to meet its present challenges.

FUTURE MONDAY MEETINGS ______________________________________

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 9: Advances in medical technology for chronic diseases – Medtronic, Inc (see www.medtronic.com)

July 16: Translocation of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Randy Knott, of Law Engineering, Atlanta

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 Medical Imaging Technology

September 3: No meeting, in observance of Labor Day

September 10: Genetic Engineering – Advances and Prospects

September 17: Efforts to meet the water requirements of the Sequatchie Valley

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).