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New Location, Free Parking, Great Food, Great Programs
NEXT MEETING___________________________
Monday, May 18, 2009 - Noon - PLANT TOUR &
PRESENTATION: Ken Garner Manufacturing,
Ken Garner Mfg. is a supplier of
counterweights for cranes and other construction equipment. Counterweights are
filled with high density concrete in which sand and gravel aggregate are
replaced by heavier materials to obtain the required densities. To date, the
heaviest counterweight manufactured by Ken Garner Mfg. weighs 35,000 pounds.
This company has formulations to produce densities in excess of 66% of the
density of solid iron.
Ken Garner Manufacturing began producing filled
counterweights for a single customer in 1987. Since then the company has
brought on 10 additional customers of counterweights for hydraulic excavators
and mobile cranes.
Join the Chattanooga Engineer’s
Club (CEC) for a one hour tour of Ken Garner Manufacturing to discover how this
company became the leading producer of filled counterweights in
John and Ken Garner, Jr. will
provide free box lunches to CEC members who register for the tour in advance. Thirty persons maximum may participate.
First-come first-served, based upon reservation. Please RSVP before Noon on Thursday, May 14th, to Misty
Walker by e-mail at mwalker@robbinsbohr.com or by
phone at 423-756-4430 ext. 138. Twelve spaces are already
reserved. Only eighteen spaces remain. We may have space for guests;
however, CEC members will receive preference. When you make a
reservation, you will be notified by e-mail in the event that spaces are
already full.
Meeting Place: When entering the grounds from
FUTURE MEETINGS________________________
Monday, May 25 - NO
MEETING - MEMORIAL DAY
Monday, June 1 - Noon - "Impact of 3D High Definition Scanning on our Global Market"
Speaker: Shane Loyd, Owner/Founder,
The RLS Group, LLC
Meeting Place: DOUBLETREE HOTEL
Monday, June 8 - Noon - "Algae-Based Fuels"
Speaker: Dr. Tricia Thomas, UTC
Meeting Place: DOUBLETREE HOTEL
Monday, June 8 -
12:50 p.m. - "ACE Mentor Program of Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia" – A FREE after-school
program for high school students who wish to learn more about careers in
architecture, construction and engineering.
Speaker: Linda Allen
Meeting Place: DOUBLETREE HOTEL
Monday,
June 15 – Noon – New Programs at
Speaker: Tim McGhee, Department Head, Engineering
Technology,
Meeting Place: DOUBLETREE HOTEL
Monday, June 22 – Noon – “
Speaker: Jerry Stuart, City of
Meeting Place: DOUBLETREE HOTEL
Monday, June 29 – Noon – PLANT TOUR & PRESENTATION: BlueCross
BlueShield “Cameron Hill Campus”
Speakers: Bob Worthington, Senior Vice President and Chief
Strategy Officer for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, and Dan Jacobson, Vice President Properties &
Corporate Services Division for BlueCross BlueShield
Meeting Place: Cameron Hill Campus, Reception Hall,
PREVIOUS MEETING_______________________
Steve
Smith and Steve Rasor described a concept called PET or “Personal Environmental
Transportation”. The concept leverages the longstanding American
love affair for cars as a personal space, along with a newer trend toward
environmentally friendly transportation technologies. They envision a
system which allows one to have a customized ‘personal
environment’, perhaps an electric vehicle capable of travel on its
own for short distances. This vehicle would hook into a very fast public
system for long distance travel. Both the public and personal systems
would use power from the electric grid. Energy storage technologies would
be integrated into the transportation system, which could also serve as the
backbone of a new electric grid.
The
PET concept provides an alternative to conventional public mass transit, which
many reject as being too impersonal and Spartan, and meets the goals of mass
transit, such as reduced congestion and reduced environmental impact.
Mr.
Smith and Mr. Rasor hope that an open-source or Wikipedia-style model of
technology development can be advanced locally and that
ITEMS OF INTEREST_______________________
The Chattanooga
Engineer's Club has relocated its meeting place to the DOUBLETREE HOTEL,
Looking
for details on a local society meeting? Links to local engineering societies
are available to you at: http://www.chattanoogaengineersclub.org/engineer.
Click on the following link to view
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 e-mail at jrobbins@robbinsbohr.com or by phone at 423-756-4430. 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
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