NEXT
WEEK_________________________________________________
Monday,
July 14 - noon
Cellar Restaurant, Downtown
Topic: Supercomputers - Their Design,
Application and Future - Dr. Thomas Zacharia, ORNL
Dr. Thomas Zacharia will describe what supercomputers are, how
they work and differ form our everyday PCs, their history, why they are
needed, how they have been used in the past, their current application, and what
is on the drawing board for creating still more powerful computers. He will also
describe ORNL's role in the development and application of these supercomputers.
Dr. Zacharia is the Director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
Computational Science Laboratory.
Invocation Chairperson for July: Ron Burton
Menu: Sliced Baked Ham, Waldorf Salad, Fried Okra, Sweet
Potato Casserole, and Banana Pudding
OUR PREVIOUS
MEETING_______________________________________
Vince Huegele gave us an interesting presentation on the
current and next generation of orbiting space telescopes. Vince is an engineer
with the NASA Marshall Spacer Flight Center and has been working in optics
research for the past 22 years. He said that the James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST) is scheduled for launch in 2011. It
is a six meter telescope that will replace the current Hubble.
The contractor for the manufacture of the JWST has just been selected.
Plans call for the use existing rocket design to launch this instrument
into an L2 orbit - a locations between the earth and the moon where net
gravity forces are zero. This will be further into space than the current
shuttle can reach. The design of the telescope and associated equipment
needs to light-weight and collapsible for the transport. Here are some web sites related to NASA's space-based
telescopes and other interesting programs:
FUTURE MONDAY
MEETINGS_____________________________________
July 21: Managing the Flood of 2003 -
Greg Lowe, TVA's Reservoir Operations
July 28: Garbage! How much more of this
can we take? - Damon Riggs, Project. Manager, Solid Waste, ARCADIS
August 4: The History of Flight:
From the Wright Brothers to the International Space Station - Bob Jaques,
Marshall Historian (MSFC)
August 11: Biomass
Technology - Mark Downing, ORNL Environmental Sciences
Division
August 18: The International Space
Station - NASA (MSFC)
August 25: Internet
II - Awesome Speed and Immense Possibilities - Dr. Clint Smullen,
UTC
September 8: Hybrid Lightning - Jeff
Muhs, ORNL Engineering Science and Technology Division
September: Responsible Use of the Internet in
Education - a book by Aniekan Ebiefung, UTC, Mathematics
WHERE WE
MEET_______________________________________
Unless we note
otherwise, all of our presentation meetings are held at the Cellar Restaurant in
the Tallan Building, Union Square, Downtown Chattanooga from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Out meeting room and luncheon service are open by 11:30 a.m. Lunch buffet is
$10.00 per person (inclusive). No reservation is required. Free parking is
available in the Days Inn Motel (on Carter Street 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.
QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS?
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If you have any questions or suggestions about
program items please call Brad Baucom at 423-648-3582 or email him at baucombe@epb.net. You can find references to other Chattanooga Engineers Club members at
our web site: www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org.