Chattanooga
Engineers Club Newsletter
http://www.chattanoogaengineersclub.org/
NEXT
MEETING ____________________
Monday
August 9 –
Leon Tolbert – Professor of Electrical Engineering, UT Knoxville
“Power
Electronics for Hybrid Electric Vehicles”-
Dr.
Leon Tolbert will describe research being conducted at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory and UT Knoxville on power electronics for hybrid electric
vehicles. He will also describe progress towards increased power and lower
costs for electric and hybrid vehicles.
Dr.
Tolbert has a B.S, M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia
Tech. He has been working with power electronics at ORNL since 1991 and
at UT since 1999.
DUES
INCREASE RECOMMENDED
The
executive Committee met on July 13 and recommended that membership dues for
Retired Members be increased from $30 to $40 per year. This action was
taken to help compensate for Club expenditures that have exceeded income for
the last two years. Last year, we increased the 2010 dues of Full and
Associate members from $50 to $60 per year. But additional funds are needed to
overcome our deficit. This recommendation will be advertised for two
weeks, and then voted on by members present at the regular meeting on August
16.
FUTURE
MEETINGS ____________________
Monday
August 16 –
Dale Bradshaw – Consultant to the National
Rural Electric Cooperative Association
“Smart
Grid Developments”
Monday
August 23 –
David Wade, Chief Operating Officer - Chattanooga Electric Power Board
“Chattanooga
EPB’s Fiber Optic Network for Smart Grid Deployment”
Monday
August 30 –
Matt McKee - Komatsu Plant Tour, assemble at noon at plant entrance.
Lunch arrangements on your own.
PREVIOUS
MEETING____________________
Monday
August 2 –
Dan Ingersoll – Oak Ridge National Lab
“Small Modular Reactors and the Second Nuclear Era”.
As
a new generation of large nuclear reactor plants are beginning to be ordered
and are on the verge of construction in the U.S., a new breed of small modular
reactors (SMR) are being designed. These SMRs are deliberately small,
i.e. they are constrained by design features to have relatively small power
capacities, generally below 300 MWe. Some of these reactors can be fully
fabricated in a factory and shipped to the plant site by truck or rail for
installation on site. Plants of large capacity can be achieved by
installing several reactor modules; hence, economy-of-scale is replaced with
economy-of-replication. These deliberately small reactor designs offer
customers with a wider range of capacity choices and provide enhanced siting
and operational flexibilities. Dan reviewed the status of SMR designs, their
promises, and their challenges.
Dr.
Daniel Ingersoll is a Senior Program Manager for the Nuclear Technology
Programs Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Ingersoll received
a BS degree in Physics from Miami University in 1973 and a PhD in Nuclear
Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1977.
CHATTANOOGA
ENGINEERS CLUB — CORPORATE SPONSORS_____________
We gratefully acknowledge the corporate sponsorships listed
below.
2010 — Robbins & Bohr, LLC
2009 — Coca—Cola
2008 — Alstom
2008 — Chattanooga State
MEETING
LOGISTICS_______________________
The
Chattanooga Engineer's Club meets at the DOUBLETREE HOTEL,
407 Chestnut St., Chattanooga, TN 37402. Free parking may be
available in the gated parking lot on the south side of the Hotel. Plan
to arrive before 11:30 a.m., if you intend to park in the limited space
available. Late arrivals may need to pay for parking on the street or in
a nearby public parking garage.
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 Ralph
Boroughs by e-mail at rdboroughs@gmail.com or by
phone at 423-227-0412. You can find membership application forms, references to
future programs, historical data, and other info at http://www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org.
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Links
to local engineering societies are available to you at: http://www.chattanoogaengineersclub.org/engineer/
For
a calendar of local technology related events see: http://chatc.org/