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The Chattanooga Engineers Club meets every Monday to hear presentations on various topics relevant to engineering and science as well as on health and medicine, education, the community, and other topics of general interest to the members. The meetings are held at noontime at the Cellar Restaurant in the basement of the Tallan Building in downtown Chattanooga. The organization welcomes both members and guests to these meetings. Club membership includes engineers and scientists from various technical disciplines in the Chattanooga area.
Founded in 1924, the Chattanooga Engineers Club is one of the oldest technical societies in the United States that meets weekly. The primary objective of these meetings is to promote the exchange of ideas and to learn about current developments and trends in science and technology. Over the years, the organization has been called upon often to study issues of interest to the public that required engineering/technical expertise. The Club was extensively involved in the original discussions with the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the University of Tennessee to establish an engineering school at UTC. This advocacy, over a period of several years, eventually resulted in the creation of the current College of Engineering. The Club also conducted studies and became an advocate for the creation of a vocational community college that eventually became the Chattanooga State Technical Community College (CSTCC). Since 1971, the Engineers Club participated in efforts to gain approval for the construction of an engineering school building on the UTC campus. Continuing to pursue the issue over the past thirty years, the Club finally saw the efforts come to fruition in 2002 with the completion of the Engineering and Computer Science Building. The Club is a major supporter of the Regional Science Fair. The Fair focuses on having high school students gain experience in science, stimulate interest in scientific investigation beyond that covered in the classroom and highlights and reward scientific talent through student exhibits and demonstrations. The Club is also an active participant in the annual Chattanooga Engineers Week, which includes sharing engineering experiences with K to 12 students in schools, at the museums, in mall exhibits, and in events such as Mathcounts, Science Olympiad and Lego Robot Contest. The Club provides scholarships to CSTCC and UTC students who are majoring in engineering, science, math or computer science.
About the Meetings While presentation meetings are held generally every Monday, there are two exceptions: (1) No meetings are held on national holidays (2) A fifth Monday of a month is sometimes reserved for guided “Tours” - visits to a technical facility, manufacturing plant or other points of interest around the Chattanooga area and vicinity. Announcements of upcoming meetings are available on this web site. You may also receive the announcement by email when you subscribe (no cost) to the ChaTech list server. The server currently posts to about 350 people in the Chattanooga area who have an interest in local events of technical nature and who have requested to be on its distribution list. To subscribe, visit http://mail.chattanooga.net/mailman/listinfo/chatech Membership to the Chattanooga Engineers Club is open to degreed engineers, scientists and others with a technical education and background. Membership fee is $50/year. Click Join Us! for more information about membership application. |