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July 7, 2008, Noon - "Is there a HEV, PHEV or FCEV in Your Future?" - Mark Hairr and Ron Bailey from UTC's Center for Energy, Transportation and the Environment will provide an update on Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV's), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV's) and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV's).  The focus will be on the underlying technologies with emphasis on the advantages and challenges of the various configurations of electric vehicles that are being rushed into production in response to increased fuel costs and concerns about the environmental impact of tailpipe emissions.

 

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 

July 14, 2008, Noon - Kelly Tiller, Director of External Operations for the UT bioenergy program, will speak on "Switchgrass to Ethanol".

July 21, 2008, Noon - Walt Lacey of Alstom will speak on "Power Regeneration: The Alstom Chattanooga Legacy".  Walt's presentation will range from the legacy of Combustion Engineering to the $200 m Alstom expansion that is planned for Chattanooga.  This will involve 350 new employees, maybe 80 to 100 of whom will be engineers. 

August 18, Noon – The Hydrogen Tour – 12 Fuel Cell Cars will be in Chattanooga as part of the tour.

LAST MEETING 

June 30, 2008 - We enjoyed an excellent presentation by Shad Guinn, Andy Schwall and Bill Tate followed by a tour of the United Enertech facilities.  We saw first hand a Chattanooga manufacturing company that is rapidly expanding.  United Enertech designs and manufactures commercial and industrial louvers and dampers and air control accessories for HVAC.  From a humble beginning of just 8 employees in 1998, United Enertech employs 135 today and is increasing sales at a pace of 40% per year.  Their hottest hew product is a Power Balancer Damper, patent pending.  United Enertech has provided sand louvers used in Iraq.  The usefulness of this product was illustrated by pictures of an approaching sandstorm.  Other types of louvers offered include louvers for wind-driven rain (hurricane protection) and acoustic louvers.

ITEMS OF INTEREST  

There will be a Generator Protection Short Course offered at UTC, August 11-14.   Registration methods include calling 423-425-4344, faxing 423-425-4170, or online at:

    http://www.utc.edu/ContinuingEducation/ContinuingEducation/ .

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

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

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://www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org/email.