NEXT MEETING
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Monday, April
1- 12:00 noon
Cellar Restaurant at Union Square
Topic: UTC Senior Engineering Design Project
Presentations - Team 1 & 2
Two presentations are in store for us this day. They reveal
the splendid achievements of UTC engineering students who collaborate in a team
environment to tackle some real-life engineering problems.
Improved Steel Cutters - Daniel Linz and Fred
Carder
Alstom Power is a company that builds water-wall panels for industrial
boilers. These panels are formed by welding long metal tubing together
using a flat bar membrane. The machines that are used to mate and weld adjoining
sections of panels in the boiler employ high-speed tool steel cutters. These
cutters require frequent adjusting and sharpening and are quite labor-intensive.
Alstom Power has asked the UTC senior engineering project team to develop a new
machine that uses modern parts and carbide insert cutters to replace the current
machines. Senior Design Project Team members Daniel Linz and Fred Carder will
tell us about their solution to the design problem and describe their prototype
and the current status of their project.
Improved Carpet Tufting Machines -
Cliff Murphy and Sam Perry
Another Senior Design Team has been working with
the Card-Monroe Corporation (CMC), a manufacturer of carpet tufting
machines. The collaboration is to design an automated machine that would
drill holes into a steel tube and insert "spiked" pins into the tube.
CMC's present procedure is very time consuming. By automating the process,
the production rate could be doubled. The design task proved to be
difficult, say team members Cliff Murphy and Sam Perry, but the resulting design
shows what they believe to be an innovative solution to a precision industrial
application. Cliff and Sam will tell us about the approach they took to
tackle this problem, their decision process in coming up with a final design and
the results of their effort.
Invocation: Billy Graham
Fellowship: Paparazzi Staff Member
Entrée du jour: Choice of Filet Mignon or Flaming Sword
Fish
OUR PREVIOUS MEETING March 25
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Dick Zeigler, Director of ORNL National
Transportation Research Center in Oak Ridge, spoke to us about improvements in
traffic control, safety technologies, self identifying inventory tags for
equipment in transit, hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cells. These are all
current topics of research and development projects conducted at the
DOE-supported transportation center in (at ORNL). Dick also gave us a virtual
tour of the various transportation research facilities at the center.
FUTURE MONDAY MEETINGS
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April 8 Topic: Improved Student Learning -
Glenda Russel @ CLARION HOTEL
There is an innovative and effective
technique that has been shown to dramatically improve the retention and learning
capability of students.
April 15 Topic: UTC Senior Design Project
Presentation - Team 3 & 4
April 22 Topic: Micro-turbine Power Engines-
George Courville- Ecotera Energy
April 29 Field Trip - Disney
World
WHERE WE MEET
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With few exceptions - such as on April
8 - (and that's no joke), our weekly meetings are held at the Cellar restaurant
of the Tallen building, Union Square Downtown Chattanooga from 12:00 to 1:00
p.m. Our meeting room and luncheon service are open by 11:30 a.m. Lunch buffet
is $10.00 per person. No reservation is required. Free parking is available in
the Days Inn Motel (on Carter St. and MLK Blvd,) courtesy of the days Inn
management. When you park there, be sure to place a note on your dashboard
indicating you are attending the engineers club meeting.