Chattanooga Engineers Club

NEXT MEETING
NO MEETING Oct. 13 - Columbus Day

Professional Development Hours (PDH) are available for most meetings.

FUTURE MEETINGS
Oct. 20 - Plant Tour of Coca Cola.

Oct. 27 - Gordon Phillips will speak on "What Chattanooga Might Have Been". A canal short-cut on the Tennessee River? Come and find out. We will return to the Chattanooga Convention Center for this program.

Nov. 3 - Steve Phillips of Signal Centers. Come see how technology and invention allow people who have limited abilities to be more independent.

LAST MEETING
Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 - Noon - UTC University Center Auditorium. Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling presented “Managing the World’s Greenhouse Problem” as the Burkett Miller Distinguished Guest Lecturer for 2008.

Dr. Thomas Schelling was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for “having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.” He is currently professor of Foreign Affairs, National Security, Nuclear Strategy, and Arms Control at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Schelling has been involved in the global warming debate since chairing a commission for President Carter in 1980 and was one of the leading scholars invited to participate in the 2007 Copenhagen Consensus.

He believes climate change poses a serious threat to developing nations, but that the threat to the United States has been exaggerated. The uncertainty in predicting the future carbon dioxide level has not improved substantially over the years. The effect of global warming on developed countires is not as apparent since the way we live our lives continues to change - including changes in crops, air conditioning, etc.

ITEMS OF INTEREST
Earth to Air (www.earthtoair.com) is seeking an Engineering Manager to work in their corporate headquarters facility in Franklin, TN (Nashville area). Earth to Air (ETA) is an emerging player in the Geot her mal HVAC industry. ETA was founded in 2002 to develop, patent and market direct exchange (DX) geothermal heating and cooling technology, which is geothermal heating/cooling systems that do not require an intermediary water exchange loop, as do water-source geothermal systems.

The ideal candidate for this role will be an experienced Mechanical Engineer who also has hands on experience with commercial HVAC systems and a solid technical understanding of HVAC technology. This role will work closely with clients and field personnel and will also play a part in day to day operations.
If you are qualified and interested in being considered as a candidate for this opportunity, please submit your resume (in WORD format), along with your most recent compensation information to: resumesDR@HumanCapitalGroupInc.com

The regular meeting location of the CEC is the Chattanooga Convention Center, 1 Carter Plaza, where we w i ll return on October 27. http://www.chattconvention.org/specifications.htm

Please send items of interest to the Chattanooga Engineers Club to the e-mail address in the Questions and Suggestions section. Looking for details on a local society meeting? Links to local engineering societies are available to you at: http://www.chattanoogaengineersclub.org/engineer/ .

QUESTIONS and SUGGESTIONS
If you have any questions or suggestions about program items please contact Jim Schwall at 423-267-4257 or by email at jimgineer@comcast.net. 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