Chattanooga Engineers Club

P.O. Box 4031

Chattanooga, TN 37405

www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org

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Next Meeting - June 25 - "New Flooring Material, Products and Manufacturing Processes"

Steve Bunn, Staff Engineer, will provide an overview of the ways engineers are used at Shaw Industries, including descriptions of new engineered hard flooring materials, products and manufacturing processes that are being used in their new plant in South Pittsburgh. Steve is a Chattanooga native. He earned his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from UTC in 2000 and has been with Shaw for the past 5 years. Steve earned his degree while employed as a Maintenance Engineer at Wheland Foundry, where he was Plant Engineer until the company shutdown in 2002.

Lunch will be available for $11 beginning at 11:30 am, and will be from the outstanding Cellar Buffet. Location: Tallan Cellar Restaurant, 200 West ML King Blvd, Chattanooga, TN 37402.

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

FUTURE MEETINGS

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July 2 Restaurant Closed for July 4th Holiday _ No Meeting planned

July 9 - Jason Makansi, author of the best selling book, "Lights Out" will speak on the coming crisis in electricity generation, transmission and distribution.

July 16  - Dr. Marilyn Brown, Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech confirmed to speak on Energy Policy

PREVIOUS WEEK PROGRAM

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June 18 State-of-the-art Demonstration of Passive Solar Lighting at Siskin Children’s' Institute

Jim Frierson facilitated a demonstration and videoconference presentation by John Morris, President & CEO of Sunlight Direct of a fully integrated natural lighting system in the training room on the second floor of the Siskin Children's Institute at 1101 Carter Street. The system consists of a roof mounted, parabolic mirror that collects and redirects natural sunlight through a bundle of plastic fiber optic cables into prismatic light bars that are integrated into hybrid natural/florescent lighting fixtures. The resulting hybrid system provides the advantages of natural sunlight while conserving energy and reducing the heat load normally associated with artificial lighting.  Box lunches were provided by the Cellar Restaurant's catering service.

June 15 - TSPE, ASCE, CEC, and CTC hosted a joint meeting as part of Navy Week in Chattanooga with  Rear Admiral Raymond K. Alexander, Civil Engineer Corps, Deputy Chief of Civil Engineers and Deputy Commander for Contingency Engineering as the keynote speaker. The Admiral generated a lot of respect for the work being done by the Navy Civil Engineering Corp. to rebuild critical infrastructure in Iraq. We wish him Godspeed and Good Luck in leading our engineering troops, and thank him for a job well done.

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. They no longer require registration to view the content on the website. It is now free to everyone when they visit the site. We are inviting them to return soon, so more Chattanoogans can see our great programs.

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.chattanoogaengineersclub.org/mailman/listinfo/chatech_chattanoogaengineersclub.org