NEXT MEETING - May 1, 2006 Noon - "Is The "Flat
World" As Flat As Some Think?" - Dr. Richard Rice, UTC
Dr. Richard Rice will present an update on the
roles of India and China in work being outsourced by U.S. businesses. Dr. Rice
teaches Asian and World History, both traditional and modern, at the University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has traveled and studied in many countries over
the past 40 years and he is Co-Director of the UTC Asia Program.
CEC meets every Monday at The Cellar Restaurant, in
the Regions Bank building at 200 West M.L. King Blvd., across from The Read
House Hotel. Parking is available on the 10th street side of the building,
or you may park at the Days Inn Hotel across Carter Street (leave a dashboard
note saying “Chatta. Engrs. Club”). A buffet lunch will be available for
$11.00 starting at 11:30. The meeting will begin at noon and the
presentation will conclude at 1 pm. Reservations are not required. Please
bring a guest if you like.
Invocation and Pledge: Jim
Couch
FUTURE MEETINGS (noon at Cellar Restaurant unless
another location is indicated)
May 8 “Robotic Surgery at Parkridge
Hospital”
May 15
May 22
May 29 - No Meeting
PREVIOUS MEETING Monday, April 24, “The Economic
Development Benefits of Major Local Highways” Terry Reynolds,
ARCADIS
Terry Reynolds described how our nations highway
system materialized. He started with very old transportation maps showing the
paths and roads that were traveled by Native Americans. These were mostly in the
migration paths of animals. Canals might have been next to develop and they
would have provided a way to carry heavy loads from one waterway to the next.
However, railroads were constructed about that time, instead. The driving
political force to get better roads seems to have come around 1880 from
northerners with bicycles who joined the Good Road Society. Mr. Reynolds showed
pictures of a Macadam road being constructed using large rock and then finer
layers of rock at the top. Macadam was the name of a Scotsman who suggested this
type of road construction. Later tar was added to reduce the dust from these
roads caused by faster moving traffic. He told us about Carl Graham Fisher’s
vision that to sell more cars, we must have better roads. He funded the first
all weather road at the Brickyard in Indianapolis. Next he collected money to
build the Lincoln Highway from the east to the west coast. He collected the
money by going to every state and county in the most direct route and explaining
to them the economic benefits of having the highway go their way.