Chattanooga Engineers Club

NEXT MEETING____________________________

Monday, July 20, 2009 - Noon - DOUBLETREE HOTEL, Second Floor (407 Chestnut St., Chattanooga, TN 37402)

"TVA’s In-Home Energy Evaluation Program" – Barry Westbrook, TVA, Mark Schwartz – State of Tenn.

Your local power distributor and TVA are making it easier than ever to become energy efficient while also saving money. With the new In-Home Energy Evaluation Program, you can reduce your power usage and receive a cash incentive or financing assistance for installing home energy improvements. The recommended energy-related home improvements you make are eligible for reimbursement of 50 percent of the installation cost, with an upper limit of $500, or for convenient financing.

Barry Westbrook and Mark Schwartz will discuss how the In-Home Energy Evaluation Program works, as well as the financing options, the incentives, the eligible improvements, and the non-eligible items of the Program. Mr. Westbrook is Contract Program Manager at TVA. Mr. Schwartz is city architect for metro Nashville and former principal architect for the State of Tennessee.

FUTURE MEETINGS________________________

The DOUBLETREE staff has asked our Club to seat those who eat lunch at the Hotel separately from those who do not. The staff counts those at the round tables with place settings and bills the Club for meals consumed. If you do not plan to purchase lunch, please sit in a chair on the perimeter of the room.

Monday, July 27 - Noon - "Use of Robotic Technology in Urological Cancer Treatment"

Speaker: Dr. Amar Singh, M.D., Erlanger Medical Center

Monday, August 3 - Noon - "Personal Experiences in NASA’s Early Rocket and Space Programs"

Speaker: Dan Loposer, Retiree from NASA

Monday, August 10 - Noon - "Greenhouse Gas"

Speaker: Rob Ellis, Advanced Waste Management

Monday, August 17 - Noon - "New Construction of the Chickamauga Lock"

Speaker: Wayne Huddleston, Project Manager, US Army Corps of Engineers

Monday, August 24 - Noon - "Robotic Program"

Speaker: Lynda Pickett, Drafting Teacher & MEST Advisor, Ooltewah High School

PREVIOUS MEETING_______________________

Chad Bontrager, Assistant Facility Manager and Head Miller at Horizon Milling of Chattanooga, reviewed his company's flour milling operations.

He said that wheat provides a gluten protein to allow the bread to expand and hold shape. Fourteen percent moisture level is required during the milling process. Flour must pass through 180 mirror sieve. Chlorine gas is pumped into flour to whiten the flour and strengthen the dough. While 700 acres of wheat are consumed per day, the wheat processing at Horizon Milling Chattanooga requires an average of 2-10 days.

The Chattanooga facility was created in 1963 by SeaBoard. The mill is located on the Tennessee River near the 911 center. This location has 54 employees and 15,000 HP machines. The wheat arrives at the mill by rail car, barge, and truck from OK, KA, NB, AL, TN, KY, and IN. Some of Horizon's customers include Rick Products, Chattanooga Bakery, McKee Foods, Kelloggs, Mars, Newly Weds, and others. Most finished products ships to customers in 50 lb. bags.

Horizon Milling is a Cargill Foods Affiliate. The Cargill was established in 1865 in Kansas. The Company is the largest flour mill corporation in the United States with production of 32,000,000 lbs. of flour daily at 14 different grades. It has some 167,000 employees with 75 business units, making it the largest privately owned company in the United States. In 2008, Cargill produced $120 billion in revenue.

ITEMS OF INTEREST_______________________

The Chattanooga Engineer's Club meets at the DOUBLETREE HOTEL, CHATTANOOGA (407 Chestnut St., Chattanooga, TN 37402). Free parking is available in the gated parking lot on the south side of the Hotel. The gate will be open from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. There is additional free parking east of the Hotel on Chestnut Street in the paved parking pit.

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 Chattanooga State’s Summer Enrichment program for Teens, http://www.chattanoogastate.edu/continuinged/busmwksp.asp

“Adjunct faculty in engineering and computing sought by Covenant College, areas of interest include: Matlab, database, computer organization, discrete math, statics, and dynamics. Christian profession of faith required. Please contact john.hunt@covenant.edu.”

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga College of Engineering and Computer Science in the cooperation with the Division of Continuing Education present: A Preparation course for PMP Certification: August 4-13, 2009, 5:30pm-7:30pm, EMCS 231, UTC Engineering, Math, and Computer Science Building, Chattanooga, TN www.utc.edu/ContinuingEducation/ContinuingEducation/documents/PMPCertificationShortCourserev4.pdf

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 the Chattanooga Technology Organization mailing list at: http://www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org/email