Chattanooga Engineers Club
www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org

 

 

Monday, Jan. 19: NO MEETING – In observance of M.L. King Day

 

NEXT MEETING  ___________________________

 

Monday, Jan. 26 – Noon – Chattanooga Convention Center –

 

TVA’s Role in Developing Modern Mapping Techniques – Alan Voss, formerly with the Tennessee Valley Authority, will speak about TVA’s mission and mapping projects. In the early 1930's when TVA was established by Congress to control floods, improve navigation and promote the general regional development of the Tennessee Valley, few maps existed. Alan 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 methods.  He will describe the pioneering efforts of TVA and its partners in the development of photogrammetry and how it laid the foundation for maps of today.

 

 

FUTURE MEETINGS  _________________________

 

Monday, Feb. 2 – Noon – “How Obama broke new ground in making use of social media”

Speaker: Adrianne Royer, Director of Communications and Development of Girls Inc.

 

Monday, Feb. 9 – Noon – “Differences in site construction between Germany and Tennessee”

Speaker: Ardt Posseyer, Chief Civil Engineer for Volkswagen site development

 

Monday, Feb. 16 – Noon – E-Week Kickoff

Speaker:  Corporate executive from a leading car manufacturer

 

Monday, Feb. 23 – Noon – “Human Factors Engineering for cars and trucks at Toyota Technical Center, Ann Arbor, MI

Speaker:  Fred W. Lupton III

 

 

PREVIOUS MEETING  ________________________

 

Jan. 12 – Dr. James G. Hemrick with Oak Ridge National Laboratory spoke about refractory ceramic materials and the advances in energy efficiency made by ORNL.  Dr. Hemrick reviewed the latest ceramic developments in the aluminum, glass, and ferrous metal industries.  He discussed projects regarding heat exchangers in microturbine and fuel cell systems, mechanical testing of insulation material for space applications, and materials selection for black liquor gasification.

 

ITEMS OF INTEREST  _________________________

Please remember to mail your dues check promptly and consider a donation to the Scholarship Fund.

The CEC meeting location 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, items of interest to the Chattanooga Engineers Club, or suggestions for 2009 programs, please contact Joe Robbins by telephone at 423-756-4430 or by email at jrobbins@robbinsbohr.com. You can find membership application forms, references to future programs, and 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