Chattanooga Engineers Club
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HAPPY NEW YEAR !

 

NEXT MEETING

Jan. 5, Noon Designing and Engineering High End Cycling – Mark Lynskey, with Lynskey Performance Products, will speak on the complex design process of frame building in high-end cycling. With increasing performance expectations, strength to weight ratios, and varied consumer, competitor, and economic landscapes, the ultra high end designer-manufacturer must constantly reinvent the points of difference by offering a completely custom product and meet the needs of each customer. Mark will address the cost benefits of the tube shaping process, tubing material selection, frame geometry and hand built assembly.

FUTURE MEETINGS
Jan. 12, Noon Refractory Ceramics: An Opportunity for Improved Energy Efficiency – Dr. James G. Hemrick with Oak Ridge National Laboratory will speak about what defines refractory ceramic materials, a brief history of these materials, and why we care about these materials at a Department of Energy Research Laboratory. Dr. Hemrick will review key properties of interest for these materials, and how they fit in key areas of research and current projects at ORNL and the Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency, and Renewable Energy (DOE/EERE) Industrial Technology Program.

Jan. 26, Noon The Birth of Production Photogrammetry at TVA – Allen Voss with the Tennessee Valley Authority will speak about how TVA was created, its mission, and its mapping project. Allen will discuss why good maps were urgently needed to accomplish the mission. In just over two years, the entire 40,000 square mile TVA watershed was mapped, using photogrammetric method. He will describe the pioneering efforts of TVA and its partners in the development of photogrammerty

LAST MEETING
Dec. 15 - Extending the smart-grid: benefits of electric sub-metering for large commercial users. Joe Gordon of UtiliFlex spoke on the concept of how large commercial and industrial customers can use sub-metering to better manage cost, power quality, and conserve energy.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

New dues are $60 for full members and $30 for retirees and students.  This is an increase of $10 for full members and no increase for retirees.

The meeting location of the CEC is the Chattanooga Convention Center, 1 Carter Plaza. http://www.chattconvention.org/specifications.htm 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 and SUGGESTIONS
If you have any questions or items of interest to the Chattanooga Engineers Club please contact Jim Schwall at 423-267-4257 or by email at jimgineer@comcast.net . If you have suggestions for 2009 programs, please contact Joe Robbins at jrobbins@RobbinsBohr.com . 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 Chattanooga Technology Organization mailing list at: http://www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org/email