NEXT MEETING: MONDAY, March 6, 2006 – "CAD Drafting Helps Students
and Local Companies" Jim Kurtz, Manager of TVA's School to Work
Program.
Join us as Jim Kurtz describes TVA's
School to Work program, designed to
provide opportunities and training to students while at the same time providing
quality services to the program sponsors. The program supports over 30
High Schools in 12 TN counties and 1 North GA county, and employs over 80 students, both high
school and college age. We support
engineering education, and CAD is a basic tool for all engineers.
Invocation & Pledge: Fred Lyon
Location: (Cellar Restaurant at 2 Union Square in the basement of the
Tallan Building at M.L. King and Carter Street)
Menu: A buffet lunch for $11 will be available for attendees beginning at
11:30 a.m. Guests are welcome. Lunch will include a salad, beef tips with rice,
squash casserole, turnip greens, apple cobbler, roll and drink.
Parking: Free parking is available for attendees at the Days Inn on Carter
Street. Leave a notice on the dashboard indicating you are with the Chattanooga
Engineers Club. There is also a parking garage behind the Tallan Building.
FUTURE MEETINGS (noon at Cellar Restaurant unless another location is
indicated)
March 13 - "Ham Radio" Cliff Hudson will speak on the joys of
communicating thru the ether, the value of high frequency communication in time
of emergency, the history of leading-edge technological development from highly
competent amateur radio operators/builders/designers, the beauty, grace, and
warmth of hollow state technology; and the harsh, unforgiving, unloving,
unimaginative characteristics of solid state components, and why they are doomed
to fail us all.
Invocation & Pledge: Jim Stites
March 20 - "Product and Data Lifecycle Management" Mark Corbett, Strategic
Account Executive, SofTech Inc. SofTech enables companies to reduce cost and
decrease product development and delivery times, while increasing quality of
goods and services through configured data management and process automation,
commonly referred to as PLM - Product Lifecycle Management. Softech's flagship
product is known as ProductCenter, which is unparallel in managing
configured products and complex processes.
Invocation & Pledge: Uwe
Zitzow
March 27 - "CITY WATER -- PUBLIC VS PRIVATE OWNERSHIP" - Donald C. Thomas,
P.E.
April 3 - TBA
April 10 - "3D Mapping Technology" - Chris Morabito, FARO Technologies,
Inc.,Large scale 3D Laser Scanning and applications. Chris will run an actual
scan for the group and show some of the capabilities of the hardware and
software. He will show a few specific projects and customers where 3D scanning
has been utilized.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ENGINEERS
Monday, March 13, 6 p.m. ASQ meeting on "Customer Satisfaction" presented
by Craig Cochran, North Metro Regional Manager for Georgia Tech's Economic
Development Institute
. Reservations are
required by noon on March 9 by calling Ted Alexander at 875-6001 or emailing
TOTANGOTWA@aol.com.
CLUB BUSINESS
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The nominating committee is seeking a candidate for the vacant officer
position (2nd VP, Membership). A motion passed Feb. 6, to prepare amendments to
the constitution and bylaws to rename the position of 2nd VP, Membership to
Membership Chair and remove the position from the line of succession to
President. The Membership Chair would remain an annual elected position and a
part of the executive committee. The bylaws committee to make the exact wording
changes and present them to the club include Ed Chapin (Chair), Brad Baucom, and
Lulu Copeland.
PREVIOUS MEETING MONDAY, Feb. 27, 2006 (noon to 1:00
pm) -"Critical Issues in Transportation: What are they? How do they impact
us? What can we do?" Pat Hu, Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL).
Americans are the most mobile people in the world. And, truck and
containerized shipments are projected to double by 2025 as the globalization of
the economy increases. Our nation’s transportation system is already being
pushed to the limits, and demands on the system continue. The presentation
outlined the critical transportation issues facing the nation in this first
decade of the new century and their potential impacts to our society and
everyday life.
QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS?
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If you have any
questions or suggestions about program items please contact Stephen Smith at
423-843-1815 or by email at
srsmith@coalsmith.com. You can find
membership application forms, references to future programs, historical data,
and other Chattanooga Engineers Club info at our web site:
www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org.
To receive future meeting announcements by email, join the Cha. Technology
Council mailing list at
http://mail.chattanooga.net/mailman/listinfo/chatech
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www.coalsmith.com
O. 423-843-1815
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