Chattanooga Engineers Club

P.O. Box 4031

Chattanooga, TN 37405

www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org

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Next Meeting - Monday, July 9 - "Will our grandchildren freeze in the dark?

Jason Makansi, author of the best selling book, "Lights Out", will share his views on what he calls "the coming Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and What It Means to You." "Lights Out will redefine the simmering debate on how the world can - and must - act now to head off a global catastrophe, one that could eventually wreak even more havoc than the ongoing oil crisis."

Jason is president of Pearl Street Inc. He is active in national energy and power generation/transmission forums, including the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, the Electric Power Research Institute, the History Channel and various technical publications. 

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. Guests are welcome; reservations are not required.

Professional Development Units (PDUs) are available for this and most technical programs at CEC meetings.

FUTURE MEETINGS

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

July 23 - Gene Gibson, TVA's Manager of Water Supply, will provide an overview of the current drought gripping the southeast and portions of the Tennessee Valley region.  He will explain the drought's ongoing impacts to TVA's integrated river system operations and the 4 million people that depend on the Tennessee River System as their source of water supply.  He will outline actions being taken by TVA to conserve water while at the same time minimizing impacts to water supply, water quality, navigation, and recreation.

PREVIOUS WEEK PROGRAM

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

Steve Bunn, a Chattanooga native and Staff Engineer with Shaw Industries, provided an overview of Shaw Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.  Shaw is one of the largest flooring companies in the world.  Steve described how engineers are used at Shaw, He also described a new engineering hardwood flooring product and how it is being manufactured at their South Pittsburgh plant. Samples of the new material were passed around for inspection by the members.

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