CHATTANOOGA ENGINEERS CLUB
www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org
P.O. Box 4031, Chattanooga, TN 37405

Next Meeting January 8 – “Ethanol Powered Corvette & Fuel from Sunlight and Water”

Don’t miss this opportunity to examine a really fast and cool looking solar powered car up close! A sun powered Corvette from MTSU will be demonstrated in the parking lot after lunch. This vehicle recently set a land speed record for an ethanol powered vehicle running on a blend of ethanol and soy oil. MTSU is exploring various clean-fuel and vehicle options as they plan for new routes and parking facilities on campus. Following the demonstration, we will be taking the MTSU team by shuttle bus to CARTA for an on-site briefing of their battery charging station and systems. CEC members are invited to participate in this briefing also.

Our presenter, Dr. Cliff Ricketts, is a professor of Agricultural Education and Acting Director in the School of Agribusiness and Agriscience at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Ricketts may be joined by Ron Malone, Director of Events and Transportation Services at MTSU, who runs the campus shuttle system, and Dr. Kathryn Mathis, Director of Environmental Sciences at MTSU. His research projects were featured in testimony last May before the House Science Energy Subcommittee – see http://www.house.gov/science/hearings/energy06/May%2017/Ricketts.pdf.

Location: The Tallan Cellar Restaurant, basement of the Tallan Financial Center at 200 West Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd Chattanooga, TN 37402.

Parking: 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”).

Lunch will be available for $11 beginning at 11:30 am and will be buffet style including chopped steak, baked potato, green beans, apple cobbler, roll, and drink.

FUTURE MEETINGS

Jan. 15 – No Meeting – Martin Luther King Day
Jan. 22 – TBA
Jan. 29 – TBA

ADDITIONAL ITEMS OF INTEREST

Volunteers Needed! Become a UTC Alumni Career Mentor. The new UTC Alumni Career Mentor Program, sponsored by the Placement and Student Employment Center, is a great way for you to share your expertise in your career area and provide information or direction about career choices with current students. A few of the ways you can participate include: Career contact & networking; Company & industry information; Employment trends (profession or industry); Job function information; Job search strategies; Job shadowing. Complete the Alumni Career Mentor Participation form on the web at http://www.utc.edu/alumni and Click on Alumni Career Mentor Program.

LAST MEETING - DEC 11– “Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce Education Initiative” – Dr. Kay Andrews, Director.

Dr. Andrews outlined the goals of the Chamber’s new education initiative. The Chamber’s goals are to create a dialogue between business people and educators and to encourage community support of education. The Chamber is funding a study that will evaluate Chattanooga’s workforce needs to help guide decisions about the curricula in the academy system in the county’s high schools, as well as to enhance the pipeline between secondary and higher education programs. Education and economic development go hand in hand. The education of students living in Chattanooga will have an impact on the skill level of the labor force in the future. Engineers Club continues to support education in our city.

QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS? If you have any questions or suggestions about program items please contact Ron Bailey at 423-425-5536 or by email at Ronald-Bailey@utc.edu. You can find membership application forms, references to future programs, historical data, and other info at http://www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org. To receive future meeting announcements by email, join the Cha. Technology Organization mailing list at http://mail.chattanooga.net/mailman/listinfo/chatech. Professional Development units (PDUs) are available for most technical programs.

J. Ronald Bailey, PhD, P.E.

Interim Chief Research Officer

Guerry Professor and Dean

College of Engineering and Computer Science

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Phone: 423-425-5536

FAX: 423-425-5311

Ronald-Bailey@utc.edu

This correspondence should be considered a public record and subject to public inspection pursuant to the Tennessee Public Records Act