MONDAY, Sept. 26, 2005 (noon to 1:00 pm) ____________________________
(Cellar Restaurant at 2 Union Square in the basement of the Tallan Building at M.L. King and Carter Street)

“21st Century Nuclear Power Plant” Dan Ingersoll, ORNL

Dan Ingersoll of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Nuclear Technology Program Office will discuss advanced nuclear power plants. Ingersoll has been working with the U.S. Department of Energy, universities and other national laboratories to develop a 21st-century nuclear-power-plant design based on old technology applied in a new way, specifically, technology originally used in ORNL’s Molten Salt Reactor. Ingersoll says the new concept uses the same MSR liquid fluoride salt to cool a reactor that otherwise looks like a traditional gas-cooled reactor.

Menu: A buffet lunch for $11 will be available for attendees beginning at 11:30 a.m. Lunch will include a salad, beef stroganoff, carrots, turnip greens, a roll, and cherry cobbler. Reservations are not required, and guests are welcome. For more information, call Judy Driggans at 751-7616 or Brad Baucom at 751-4696.

Parking: Free parking (for those who leave a notice on their dash indicating they are with the Chattanooga Engineers Club) is available for attendees at the Days Inn on Carter Street. There is also a parking garage behind the Tallan Building.

FUTURE MEETINGS AND EVENTS OF INTEREST TO ENGINEERS__________________

Aerisyn, LLC will hold an open house on Sept. 26 from noon to 6 p.m. The business, which manufactures towers for commercial-size wind turbines, is located at 1025 W. 19th St. Ribbon-cutting ceremonies will be held at 1:30 p.m. For more information, please see this article in the Chattanoogan.com: http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_72569.asp

Monday, October 3: "Stereopsis - 3D Image Generation and Viewing" Dr. Clint Smullen, UTC

Monday, October 10, 11:00 am - noon, "Digitizing IPIX Photography for Security Systems" VistaScape Security Systems.
Joint Meeting with the Chattanooga Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society. Location: UTC University Center, Chickamauga Room, Lunch will be Pizza for $5

Monday, October 17: "Too Much Data, Not Enough Information" -Paul Wolff, WolffWare, Ltd.

Monday, October 24: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, speaker TBA

Monday, October 31: "Total Production Maintenance" Jack Mooney, ArvinMeritor, Site Manager in Loudon, TN

Monday, November 7: "Aerisyn’s New Wind Tower Manufacturing Plant in Chattanooga" Walter Thompson, Aerisyn

PREVIOUS MEETING________________________________________________

Ed Chapin gave us a history of the Chattanooga Engineers Club's start and current involvement in the FIRST Lego League - an alliance between FIRST and the Lego Company. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a multinational non-profit organization, that aspires to transform culture, making science, math, engineering, and technology as cool for kids as sports are today. FIRST operates the FIRST Robotics Competition in which teams of high school students sponsored and assisted by local companies and volunteers, design, assemble, and test a robot capable of performing a specified task in competition with other teams.

This year, the theme is Ocean Odyssey. We are partnering with the Tennessee Aquarium and the Chattanooga Manufacturers Association as team sponsors. The rules were announced on Sept. 12 and we have three middle school teams registered so far--Tyner, RoboTroop and a Home School group. We have one more set that could be used by another team if they will start and register by October. Call Ed Chapin at 802-9376 if you know of another possible team or want to participate.