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May 12, 2008, Noon - A car running on paper?  The final 2008 Capstone Design presentation will be by senior Chemical Engineering UTC student Josh Oliver.  Josh is also an employee of UTC, working with the Facilities Planning and Management Dept.  This senior project team project involved the conversion of waste paper to ethanol, hence the term PAPERNOL - http://chem.engr.utc.edu/ench430/2008/Teams/100/  .

  

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.  < /o:p>

  

FUTURE MEETINGS

May 21, 2008 – Wednesday – EPB, 7^th Floor Auditorium.  There will be a Joint meeting with the Chattanooga Technology Council (CTC).  We will have presentations from 2008 Early Innovator Award finalists.  The four finalists will describe their successful inventions. The award contest was sponsored by the Chattanooga Technology Council and the award is one of three that were presented at the annual Spirit of Innovation Event in April.  Now in its fourth year, the Early Innovator Award honors emerging technology-based companies that have produced a groundbreaking prototype product or beta-stage software application with potential for a significant competitive advantage.

 

The four finalists for the 2008 Early Innovator Awards were the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, Cushion by Design, Inc., NanoChromatic, Inc. and UtiliFlex.  During the April Spirit of Innovation Event, Cushion by Design was named the winner and this Award.

 

NOTE – There will be no Monday meeting on May 19 at the Cellar.

 

May 26, 2008 – Memorial Day – No meeting. 

  

LAST MEETING

May 5, 2008 - Computing: The Past, Present and Future - Alan Field of SURFN Development Corp. made a very well received presentation on the three generations of the computer technology industry.  The first generation was mechanical (2500B.C.-1940 A.D.), illustrated by the Roman odometer and the Antikathera mechanism.  The second generation has been electronic (1940-present), illustrated by mini-computers (1965) and personal computers (1977), with development described by Moore's law, Wirth's law and blue shift - resources moving toward the user.  The third generation, the future, can be described by such phrases as "cloud computing", "open source", and red shift - resources shifting away from the user. 

  

ITEMS OF INTEREST 

Watch This Space! - Please send items of interest to the Chattanooga Engineers Club at the e-mail address in the Questions/Suggestions section.

 

Professional Development Hours (PDH) are available for most meetings.

 

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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