Chattanooga Engineers Club

NEXT MEETING____________________________

Monday, November 9 - Noon – DOUBLETREE HOTEL, Inspiration Room (407 Chestnut Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402)

“Air Permitting Process for the New Volkswagen Plant” - Bob Colby, Director; Alan Frazier, P.E., and Cynthia McDaniel, EIT, with the CHCAPCB Engineering Department

For nearly 40 years, Chattanooga has been building a national reputation for addressing air pollution and embracing sustainable growth practices. That approach has proven to be an effective tactic for creating a fertile incubator for green businesses and a point of attraction for outside investment by environmentally conscious companies, including global players such as Volkswagen. Bob Colby, Alan Frazier and Cynthia McDaniel from the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Bureau (CHCAPCB) will describe how the air pollution permitting process was conducted for the new Volkswagen plant, currently under construction at the Enterprise South Industrial Park, in Chattanooga. The permitting task was completed in record time to facilitate economic development while ensuring environmental protection for the community.

FUTURE MEETINGS________________________

Monday, November 16 – Noon – “A Kingston, TN, Disaster: The Coal Ash Spill”

Speaker: Mike Scott, Project Co-ordinator, TVA, Kingston, TN

Monday, November 23 – Noon – “New Events and Activities at Creative Discovery Museum”

Speaker: Henry Schulson, Director at Creative Discovery Museum

Monday, November 30 – 11:45 am – 1:00 pm – PLANT TOUR: ROADTEC

Speaker: Steve Hauke, Manager of Purchasing and Materials

Monday, December 7 – Noon – “Lithium Batteries-Unlikely Answer for Electric Vehicles”

Speaker: Mark Hairr, UTC CETE Research Program Director

Monday, December 14 – Noon – To be determined.

Monday, December 21 – NO MEETING

Monday, December 28 – NO MEETING

PREVIOUS MEETING_______________________

Dr. Robert Marlowe, a professor of physics at UTC, began his presentation with Thomas Kuhn's observation that scientific revolutions are non-cumulative events in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one.

In 1922 the Russian mathematician Aleksandr Friedmann solved Einstein's general relativity field equations for the case of an isotropic, homogeneous universe. Einstein added an additional term, known as the "cosmological constant," to Friedmann's solution, so that Einstein's prediction of a dynamic universe would remain a static non-changing universe.

(H² = 8πGp) R² = -kc²

The π tells us the overall geometry, but not necessarily the ultimate fate of the universe. Good ole’ ordinary matter (protons and neutrons) makes up only 4-5% of what we need for a flat universe.

Non-baryonic Dark matter is revealed only by its gravitational influence on baryonic matter. Dark Energy’s main feature is that it acts as negative pressure, opposing the gravitational attraction experienced by normal matter. Its effects are only noticeable over cosmological distances.

Dr. Marlowe taught his last astrophysics class in 2008.

ITEMS OF INTEREST_______________________

The Chattanooga Engineer's Club meets at the DOUBLETREE HOTEL, CHATTANOOGA, Inspiration Room (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. Plan to arrive at about 11:30 a.m., if you intend to park in the limited space available. No additional parking is available in the pit east of the Hotel on Chestnut Street.

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QUESTIONS and SUGGESTIONS______________

If you have any questions, items that would be of interest to the Chattanooga Engineers Club, or suggestions for future 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.