Chattanooga Engineers Club
P.O. Box 4031
Chattanooga, TN 37405
www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org

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April 2 – Nine Kruesi Honorees Present Business Innovations

Each of the nine Kruesi Honorees for 2007 has been invited to provide a short overview of the innovation that led to their selection as Honorees. The Kruesi Award is presented annually to a Chattanooga area company that exemplifies business ingenuity. Through a rigorous selection process, nine companies have been identified to receive Kruesi Honoree designations for this year. The finalist and the eventual winner of the award for this year will be chosen from these companies.

The Kruesi Award designation has been created by a local family whose Swiss ancestor, John Kruesi, immigrated to America and worked with inventor Thomas A. Edison. Kruesi made the first phonograph in 1877 and was the principal mechanic on countless other patented innovations, including the incandescent light bulb.

Lunch will be available for $11 beginning at 11:30 am and will be buffet style including Salad, Marinated Chicken, Broccoli, Mac and Cheese, Cobbler, Rolls,and a drink (coffee and tea).

Location: Tallan Cellar Restaurant, 200 West ML King Blvd, Chattanooga, TN 37402.Note: Parking is no longer available at the Days Inn Hotel due to extensive on-going renovations at the Inn, so bring some change for on street meters or plan to park in the rear of the Tallan Building or in one of the commercial lots nearby.

Professional Development units (PDUs) are available for most technical programs at CEC meetings.

FUTURE MEETINGS

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April 9 – The UTC Steel Bridge team has been invited to present the status of their entry in the annual competition sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers. A demonstration of the construction of their bridge will be held in the City Park across from the Post Office, weather permitting

April 16 – Dr. Ron Goulet will bring his Moon Buggy Team to discuss their participation in the national competition sponsored by NASA. The Soddy Daisy and Tyner High School Teams are also invited to participate. If possible, the Moon Buggy will be demonstrated in the City Park across from the Post Office, weather permitting, and assuming the vehicle survives the competition in Huntsville.

April 23 – Dr. Cecelia Wigal and her UTC design students will describe some of the communication and mobility aids they have developed to assist children with special needs.

April 30 – Field trip to the UT SimCenter for a tour of the facility and a presentation from Dr. Henry McDonald on the research capabilities and activities of the SimCenter which houses one of the fastest parallel computing systems in the Southeast.

PREVIOUS WEEK PROGRAM

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March 26, 2007 – High Performance Computing at ORNL

Robert Whitten, Jr. provided an overview of the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) that was founded in 1992 to advance the state of the art in high-performance computing (HPC) by bringing a new generation of parallel computers out of the laboratory and into the hands of the scientists who could most use them. He described many of the managed activities of the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program of the DOE Office of Science (DOE-SC) that is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

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Fire Eye Productions, Inc. has made available many video recordings of events in our community by creating the Local Webcast Network. Several Chattanooga Engineers Club programs are included; you may be on there too! Go to www.localwebcastnetwork.com, click the free registration, enter your name, email address, and password, and then activate using the confirmation email. We are inviting them to return soon, so more Chattanoogans can see our great programs.

On Saturday, March 24, Chattanooga State hosted the EarthCare Spring Forum. The topic this year was “Is God Green?” There was a showing of the PBS Bill Moyers’ special by the same name. The keynote speaker was Allen Johnson, President of Christians against Mountain Top Removal (West Virginia) who is featured in the PBS special. For a full agenda visit www.earthcareonline.org

On Tuesday, April 3rd from 6 to 8 PM the Chattanooga Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will be hosting a planning meeting at Velsicol Chemical, 4902 Central Ave., Chattanooga, TN. 37410. The meeting is open to all AIChE members and those interested in becoming AIChE members. Please RSVP to Tim Schaefer, tim@aiche-chatt.org, (423)842-6016. A pizza dinner will be provided.

THE CHATTANOOGA INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Friday, March 30, 2007, 8:30-12:15. Keynote Speaker: Ambassador Marshall McCallie. Location: The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga University Center Auditorium. Choose from tracks focused on: (1) Business (2) Culture & Lifestyle (3) Education (4) Environment. All four sessions are free and open to the public. Reservations are required due to limited seating; please RSVP by or before March 20th. To register go to http://www.chattanoogasistercities.org/Summit/

Speaking Opportunities! Volunteers needed to address speaker requests from elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and youth groups to visit classrooms, assemblies, and group meetings. High school student groups may schedule tours of CSTCC to visit mechanical, electrical, civil, chemical technology classes and other locations of the campus. Contact Jackie Rutledge at (423)697-2698 or lulu.copeland@chattanoogastate.edu.

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.