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

 

NEXT MEETING

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".

 

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 18, 2008 - E-Week - See Item #1 below.

March 3, 2008 - Dr. Mounir Minkara, Water Quality Manager, Chattanooga Dept. of Public Works, will speak on "Water Quality and the Chattanooga Water System".

 

LAST MEETING

February 4, 2008 - Dr Ignatius Fomunung, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at UTC, spoke on "Changes and Opportunities in Chinese Higher Education in the Modern Era – Notes from My Luggage".  Dr. Fomunung recently visited China for talks about collabortating with engineering educators at the university where he earned one of his engineering degrees.  He spoke of historical background and the interruption of China's higher education system through war followed by the Soviet model and the current resolve to build a world-class university system.  Gaps in education and "brain drain" are among China's challenges.  There are, however, opportunities in the future through internationalization - partnership with other countries. 

ITEMS OF INTEREST

 

1.      E-week begins February 18th.  Please RSVP for the Feb. 18 lunch.  Details are provided at the following link:  http://www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org/engineer/eweek/eweek2008.html 

2.      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 Mexico.  For more information, contact Dr. Jim Henry, jim-henry@utc.edu 425-4398.

 

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