CHATTANOOGA ENGINEERS CLUB

www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org

P.O. Box 4031, Chattanooga, TN 37405

NEXT MEETING: MONDAY, 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 unparalleled in managing configured products and complex processes.

Invocation & Pledge: Uwe Zitzow

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.

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 27 - "CITY WATER -- PUBLIC VS PRIVATE OWNERSHIP" - Donald C. Thomas, P.E. will examine and compare large (>100k population) US public vs privately-owned water systems, costs, performance, water export, and application to our situation in Chattanooga. Come hear this economic assessment of the recent proposals to manage our water supply.

April 10 - "3D Mapping Technology" - Chris Morabito, FARO Technologies, Inc.,

May 1 - Richard Rice, China/India talk.

ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ENGINEERS

E-Week Awards Banquet, Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 6:00 pm at Chattanooga Marriott Ballroom A.

Cost: $25 Keynote Speaker: Paul Johnson, Engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

"NASA's Vision for Space Exploration and Inspiring the Next Generation of Explorers"

RSVP by March 16, Tiffany Gibby at tjgibby@tva.gov , or (423)751-3168

CLUB BUSINESS ___________________________________________________________

CEC Executive Committee meeting Monday, March 20, 10:15 am in the Cellar club room. Reports on vacant position election and directory.

PREVIOUS MEETING MONDAY, March 13 - "Why We Have Been Duped in Our Search for Perfection" -With tongue firmly in cheek, the Rev. Cliff Hudson spoke eloquently on the beauty, grace, and warmth of thermionic valve technology, and the harsh, unforgiving, unloving, unimaginative characteristics of solid state components, and why they are doomed to fail us all. He displayed a variety of globe covered diodes and triodes, including those used to broadcast the mellow voices of many local radio announcers over the past 50 years. Cliff owns around 3 to 4 thousand tubes and favors their warmth and imperfections to cold, sterile chips.

QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS? ___________________________________________________________

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