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

 

February 4, 2008 - Dr Ignatius Fomunung, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at UTC, will speak on "Changes and Opportunities in Chinese Higher Education in the Modern Era – Notes from My Luggage".  Dr. Fomunung recently visited China for talks about collaborating with engineering educators at the university where he earned one of his engineering degrees.  He will be sharing his China experiences with the Club. 

 

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

 

FUTURE MEETINGS

 

February 11, 2008 - Joe Gordon of UtiliSol and UtiliFlex will speak on "Smart Meters: How they impact demand, demand response and how customers use and pay for electricity".

February 18, 2008 - E-Week

 

LAST MEETING

 

January 28, 2008 - Dean McGrew, Vice President of Business Development for Azure Dynamics, discussed Azure's alternative transportation solutions, with a focus on the company's hybrid electric powertrain technology for medium-duty commercial vehicles.  These vehicles offer reduced emissions (40 tons less CO for the life of the product), improved efficiency (46%) and less maintenance.  After the presentation, a hybrid shuttle bus was demonstrated to the club.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

 E-week begins February 18^th.  Details are provided at the following link:  http://www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org/engineer/eweek/eweek2008.html 

Seminar Presentation: "Water decontamination using heterogeneous photocatalysis".   Seminar Presented by Dr. Benito Serrano.  Date & Time:  Thursday, 14 February, 1:30 pm.  Place: Maytag Conference Room, 4th Floor, Engineering, UTC.  Dr. Benito Serrano is a professor of engineering at Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas Mexico.  He will make a presentation about his research in water decontamination and will discuss the resulting environmental problems in Mexic o.  For more information, contact Dr. Jim Henry, jim-henry@utc.edu 425-4398.

 A LEED building workshop is being offered by the East Tennessee Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council in Oak Ridge on February 7^th.  Go to http://www.usgbc.org/Workshops/Register for more information. 

  

Looking for details on a local society meeting?  Links to local engineering societies are available to you at:  http://www.chattanoogaengineersclub.org/engineer/.   

 

QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS? If you have any questions or suggestions about program items please contact Jim Schwall at 423-267-4257 or by email at jimgineer@comcast.net.  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