Chattanooga Engineers Club

NEXT MEETING____________________________

Monday, August 10, 2009 - Noon - DOUBLETREE HOTEL, Second Floor (407 Chestnut St., Chattanooga, TN 37402)

"Measuring Emissions of Greenhouse Gases" - Rob Ellis, Advanced Waste Management, Inc.

Since global warming has been linked to carbon emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels, these emissions have become the subject of control regulations ranging from cap-and-trade systems to direct taxation. Commerce in these new markets now involves tens of billions of dollars of trade in carbon credits that are essentially traded as a commodity in much the same way as corn or wheat. Rob Ellis will discuss examples of voluntary and mandatory emission reporting programs. He will also explain that since financial investments are high for these programs, there is potential of fraud; and, therefore, an important need to establish accurate emission measurements and inventories. Rob will describe the current techniques used for making those measurements.

Rob is the manager of the Greenhouse Gas Program of Advanced Waste Management Systems, Inc., an environmental engineering company.

FUTURE MEETINGS________________________

The DOUBLETREE staff has asked our Club members to arrive when the doors open at 11:30 a.m. Speakers may arrive 15 minutes early. Those who eat lunch at the Hotel should sit 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. The Club officers and the DOUBLETREE staff appreciate your cooperation.

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_______________________

Dan Loposer, a retired engineer from NASA and IBM, reviewed his career with the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) and NASA in Huntsville, Cape Canaveral, and Houston. Dan explained that German unmanned V2 rockets, designed by Dr. Werner Von Braun's team, became the early models for U.S. built rockets. The supersonic V2 was a terror bomb for victims in England and Belgium, as they could not be heard until they exploded. At the end of WWII, most of Dr. Von Braun's German design team moved to the U.S. to work for the ARMY (and later NASA) in Huntsville.

Dan paid tribute to Dr. Robert Gilruth, who headed the Johnson Space Center in Houston and to Max Faget (pronounced FAH-jey), who was the inventor of the blunt body spacecraft design used in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. The design solved the problems of temperature and velocity associated with spacecraft re-entry from orbit. In 1948-1954 at Langley AFB, VA, Dan worked for the NACA under Dr. Gilruth and Faget on aerodynamic research using free-flight rockets launched from Wallops Island, VA.

Dan joined IBM in 1954 and was involved in the installation of large main-frame computers at Huntsville, Cape Canaveral and the NASA Mission Control Center in Houston. He described living near the space center in Houston, in the neighborhood where many of his friends and neighbors were astronauts, including Alan Bean and Buzz Aldrin.

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

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