March 1:  Mike Cuddy, Founder & President, Technology 2020:  The Role of Technology 2020 in Development of Technology in the Tennessee Valley

March 8:  Samantha Godsey, Project Manager, TVA River Operations:  The Refurbishment of the Blue Ridge Dam (PDH)

March 15:   Susanna Sutherland Bass, Program Manager, Sustainability, for the City of Knoxville will speak. She will present an overview and update of initiatives and programs that are in the works and how they fit together to form the future of Knoxville.

March 22:  H. Lee Dodds, Head of Department of Nuclear Engineering, UT-Knoxville.  Nuclear Power Today and in the Future (PDH)

March 29:  Mitch McNabb, Project Manager & LEED Accredited Professional & Don Horton, Senior LEED Accredited Professional, McCarty Holsaple McCarty, Inc.  Sustainable Features of the Knoxville Station Transit Center (PDH)

February 1 - Dick Berry, founder of Rembco, a geotechnical contractor that specializes in foundation support, soil stabilization and specialty grouting, will speak on "Karst soil structures (like we have in Tennessee) -including their effect on global climate".(PDH)

February 8 - Larsen Jay, President of DoubleJay Creative and Dogwood Entertainment, will speak of his experience as a director, writer, producer of television and video shows, and more recently of the just released film  "That Evening Sun"  starring Hal Holbrook, and filmed near Knoxville.

February 15 - NO MEETING, President's Day

February 22 - Gilbert Cremese, a retired engineer from France who worked with Framatome and Areva will speak on: "From the PWR French Program to the EPR reactor via ITER first steps; 17 years in the management of Nuclear Engineering Projects".

February Program Jean-Pierre Granju (jean-pierre@granju.net)

January 4  - No Meeting

January 11 - Dr Alan Edwards, President of Pellissippi State Community College will speak on “The role of Community Colleges in the future economy”

January 18 - David Bolt, Sustainable Future founder and president will speak on “An overview of Solar applications and ongoing projects in the region”

January 25 - Jim Zonar, Director of Manufacturing Partnerships at Y-12 will speak on “The Modernization of Y-12”

January program  Sam Hart (shart55@hotmail.com)

December 7: Dr. Sally J. Pardue, Interim Director, Oakley Center for Teaching & Learning of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, TTU: The Mission of the Oakley Center.

December 14: Steve Hillenbrand, Senior Forensic Engineer, Donan Engineering, Knoxville: Sinkholes in Tennessee - from the perspective of the insurance industry.

December 21 and 28: No Meetings. Happy Holidays!

December program: Tim Moran, tpmoran@tva.gov.

November 2: Dr. Joshua Fu, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UTK: The Effects of Climate Change on the Future Air Quality in the United States. (PDH)

November 9: Dr. Joe Hoagland, Vice President, Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy, TVA: TVA future directions.

November 16: Professor Tom Buchanan, UTK: Distributed Wastewater Treatment and Water Reuse. (PDH)

November 23: Dr. Claus Daniel, ORNL: Current status of battery energy storage. (PDH)

November 30: Professor Randy Gentry, UTK: Issues of an environmentally sustainable world of the future. (PDH)

November program: steve@esper.com; Jim Hackworth, Jim@JimHackworth.com; Tim Moran, tpmoran@tva.gov.

October 5: Dr. Greg Peterson, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UTK: Emerging Computer Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities. (PDH)

October 12: Columbus Day - No Meeting

October 19: David Dewhirst: Underground Knoxville. We will meet shortly after 11:30 at the Crowne Plaza, as usual, have our lunch, then proceed to Under Ground Knoxville under the guidance of Developer David. Dewhirst.

October 26: Dr. Marianne Breinig, UTK: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics.

October program: Tim Moran, tpmoran@tva.gov; Ely. Driver; Walter O. Wunderlich.

September 7: Labor Day - No Meeting.

September 14: Barry Thacker, P.E., Geo/Environmental Associates, Inc.: TVA’s Kingston Ash Facility: Why it failed and why it matters. (PDH)

September 21: Gary Gilmartin, Executive Director, Oak Ridge Energy Corridor: Oak Ridge Energy Corridor.

September 28: Jim Odle, Odle & Young Architects: BIM and Other Recent Transformations in the Building Industry.
 
September program: Ken Berry, kbarry@smeinc.com; Tim Moran, tpmoran@tva.gov; Walter Wunderlich.

August 3: Mary Pankiewicz, Clutter-Free & Organized: Organizing your Office Space

August 10: Dr. Dayakar Penemadu, Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UT: A Transformational Approach to Civil and Environmental Engineering Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. (PDH)

August 17: Paul D. Rook, Blount Hearing and Speech Services: Cochlear Dead Regions: Implications for Speech.

August 24: Dr. Amit Goyal, UT-Battelle/Oak Ridge National Laboratory: High Temperature Superconductors & Saving Energy. (PDH)

August 31: Dr. Steve Obermeier, USGS research scientist emeritus, formerly Reston, VA; now back on the family farm in Rockport, Indiana: Landslides & Soil Liquefaction. (PDH).

August program: Berny Ilgner, berny.Ilgner@arcadis-us.com; Sam Rudder; Bill Goodwin; Ted Lundy; Walter Wunderlich; Ely Driver.

July 6: Independence Day - No meeting

July 13: W. K. (Keith) Kahl, Deputy Director, Transportation Technologies Program, ORNL: Transportation in the US: Recalibrating the Challenges. (PDH)

July 20: Lisa New, Director of Animal Collections, Knoxville Zoo. Species Survival Program at the Knoxville Zoo.

July 27: John D. Petersen, former president of the University of Tennessee: Positioning Tennessee for the Future.

July program: Tim Moran, tpmoran@tva.gov. Ely Driver, edriver@comcast.net

June 1: John Hunter, a project manager with TN DOT: SMARTFIX 40 - Lessons learned (I-40 downtown interchange construction project). (PDH)

June 8: Andrea Omer Desjarlais, ORNL: Building envelope technology development. (PDH)

June 15: David Green Adler, DOE: Overview of the Department of Energy’s environmental cleanup projects under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. (PDH)

June 22: Malcolm Stocks, ORNL: Scope of Energy Frontier Center for Defect Physics in Structural Materials. (PDH)

June 29: Kenneth W. Tobin, Measurement Science and Systems Engineering Division, ORNL: A telemedicine approach to the reduction of blindness from diabetic retinopathy. (PDH)

June program: Ted Lundy, tlundy@usit.net; Tim Moran, tpmoran@tva.gov.

May 4: Erin Burns, Sustainability Special Assistant, City of Knoxville: Knoxville's Solar American Cities Initiative. (PDH).

May 11: Prof. Bruce Tonn, Department of Political Science, UTK: Potential environmental implications of major population, demographic and economic trends. (PDH)

May 18: Tom King, Director, Energy Efficiency, Renewable and Electricity Technologies Program, ORNL: Modernizing the nation's electric delivery system. (PDH)

May 25: Memorial Day - No Meeting.

May program: Walter Wunderlich, wowunder@bellsouth.net; Tim Moran, tpmoran

April 6: Daniel Pratt, Manager, Pre-Construction Planning Nuclear Generation Development & Construction, TVA: Nuclear Generation Development & Construction. The presentation will focus on the elements of TVA's generation strategy, primarily on the opportunities and challenges of TVA's nuclear options. (PDH)

April 13: Don Byerly, Consulting Geologist, Professor Emeritus, UT Department of Geology: Acidic drainage problem related to the weathering of sulfide minerals in construction projects. Earth materials weather rapidly when excavated and may produce acidic drainage (AD). Studies initiated by the Federal Highway Administration resulted in the development of guidelines for use in reducing the risk of AD during all stages of a project - planning or pre-design, design and construction. The guidelines suggest procedures for detecting and evaluating potential AD problems and provide suggestions for handling materials without requiring post-construction mitigation.(PDH)

April 20: Prof. Doug Hayes, Biosystems Engineering Department, UTK: Biosystems and products for fuel and clean systems.

April 27: Jeff Gillow, Ph.D., Principal Geochemist, Site Evaluation and Remediation Division, ARCADIS, U.S., Inc., Highlands Ranch, Colorado: Enhanced Reductive Dechlorination of Groundwater Combined with Engineered In-situ Radionuclide Precipitation. Groundwater treatment of volatile organic compounds through in-situ reductive dechlorination is an innovative remediation strategy that relies upon enhancing natural processes. The resultant change in aquifer soil mineralogy creates mineral phases that can also react with dissolved radionuclides. This presentation will discuss geochemical characterization of soil from an in-situ groundwater treatment area.(PDH)

March 2: Timothy Valentine, Ph.D., Director Strategic Planning & Communications, ORNL: The energy challenge and how Tennessee might help (PDH).

March 9: Dr. George A. Spiva, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Economics; UT College of Business Administration: The recession.

March 16: David Watson, Executive Director, East Tennessee Community Design Center: The role of the Design Center and its impact on downtown Knoxville

March 23: Al Bedinger, P.E., President of Albert Bedinger Consulting Engineers: Solar energy then (35 years ago) and now. A personal perspective

March 30: David Hill, South Knoxville Waterfront Director, City of Knoxville: An update on the waterfront implementation (PDH).

March Program: Jean-Pierre Granju, jean-pierre@granju.net; Tim Moran, tpmoran@tva.gov.

February 2: Timothy L. Smith, TVA: Electric transmission in the Tennessee Valley - future challenges including smart systems. (PDH).

February 9: Speaker from TVA: Coal ash spill at the TVA Kingston plant.

February 16: Presidents’ Day - No meeting

February 23: Clay Griffin, REMBCO, Knoxville: Sinkhole Remediation.(PDH).

February Programs: Tim Moran, tpmoran@tva.gov.

January 5: Installation of 2009 TSK Board at 12 noon sharp. This will be followed by a 50 minutes program by Douglas B. Kothe and Buddy Bland, ORNL: Hardware and Science Applications of the ORNL Jaguar (PDH).

January 12: Robert Leach, Director, Knoxville U.S. Export Assistance Center, U.S. Commercial Service, U.S. Department of Commerce: The US Commercial Service and Developing Overseas Markets

January 19: Martin Luther King Day - No meeting

January 26: Charles Garten, Senior R&D Staff Member, Nutrient Biogeochemistry Group, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Field Experiments for Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystems. (PDH).

January Programs: Ely Driver, edriver@comcast.net; Jean-Pierre Granju, jean-pierre@granju.net.

December 1: Renée Victoria Hoyos, Executive Director, Tennessee Clean Water Network: Water: Challenges & Opportunities.

December 8: Dr. Glen Graber, Professor of Philosophy, UT, and Dr. Chris Pionke, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering: Engineering Ethics. ( PDH).

December 15: Ralton Emory, Regional Manager of Member and Industry Relations, Society of Manufacturing Engineers: An Overview of the SME.

December 22 and 29: TSK holidays - no meetings. Program will resume January 5. Happy Holidays!

December Program: Ely Driver, edriver@comcast.net; Jean-Pierre Granju, jean-pierre@granju.net.

November 3: Dr. Wayne Davis, Acting Dean, College of Engineering, UTK. Dr. Davis: Overview of the state of the College of Engineering. Dr . Davis will be accompanied by two of the three 2008/09 Ferris Scholarship winners Nicholas Jones and Stewart Boyce.

November 10: Veterans Day - No Meeting.

November 17: Frank Munger, Knoxville News Sentinel staff: A new perspective on ORNL and the recent budget cuts affecting the DOE, ORNL, Bechtel-Jacobs, and in turn, UT.

November 24: Dick Berry, member TSK: The Science of Fear.

November Program: Jean-Pierre Granju, jean-pierre@granju.net; Dick Berry, berry@rembcxo.com. Walter Wunderlich, wowunder@bellsouth.net.