Chattanooga Engineers Club

NEXT MEETING____________________________

Monday, August 3, 2009 - Noon - DOUBLETREE HOTEL, Second Floor (407 Chestnut St., Chattanooga, TN 37402)

"Personal Experiences in NASA’s Early Rocket and Space Programs" - Dan Loposer, Retired engineer from NASA

Dan Loposer will provide us with a personal perspective of the early days of American rocketry and space exploration. He had begun his career with rocket propulsion systems shortly after WW II when he joined NASA’s precursor organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In the 1950's Dan was involved with the NASA space program at Huntsville, Cape Canaveral and Houston. During this time he worked with many of the early space pioneers including the team of German scientists headed by Dr. Von Braun in Huntsville and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, headed by Dr. Robert Gilruth. He also worked with a group of engineers who helped design the spacecraft used in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. Dan will discuss his experiences through these early days of rocket research and development. He will also describe some of the unique and interesting people with whom he became acquainted during his long professional career.

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, 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 - "Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology Careers”

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

Monday, August 31 - Noon - PLANT TOUR & PRESENTATION: Advanced Vehicle Test Facility (AVTF) - Speaker: Ron Bailey, Guerry Professor of Engineering, UTC

Monday, September 7 - NO MEETING - In observance of Labor Day

Monday, September 14 - Noon - "Rapid Deployment Shelter System"

Speaker: Keith Buckner, V.P. of Manufacturing at Adaptive Methods

Monday, September 21 - Noon - "Today’s Recession and Financial Crisis-and a Way Forward”

Speaker: John Garrett, Professor of Economics at UTC

Monday, September 28 - Noon – “Benefits of Urban Tree Planting”

Speaker: Preston Roberts, Take Root

Monday, October 5 - Noon - "Implementing a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure”

Speaker: Alan Stevens, PhD, Scientist Emeritus, Federal Geographic Data Committee

Monday, October 12 – NO MEETING – In observance of Columbus Day

PREVIOUS MEETING_______________________

Dr. Amar Singh made an informative presentation to a very interested group of Engineers Club members and guests. Dr. Singh described and demonstrated through video the use of robotic technology in treating urological cancers. He discussed how mergers of imaging technology and computer aided surgical systems have revolutionized modern urological cancer surgery. Robotic surgery offers many advantages over traditional methods including the ability of a surgeon to see far more detail of the operating area and to perform far more intricate and accurate surgical maneuvers. These advances translate to less blood loss for the patient, shorter recovery time and a greater chance of survival.

Dr. Singh is Chief, Minimally Invasive Surgery-Urological Oncology of Academic Urologists at Erlanger Medical Center.

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

“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