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The Technical Society of Knoxville and its Mission
The Technical Society of Knoxville is a group of persons interested in technology and science, and their effects on society, and in particular, on the community. The Society was founded in 1921 by Charles E. Ferris, the first dean of the UT College of Engineering and a group of leading members of the community.
The hallmark of the Technical Society is its Monday Luncheon meeting. Every Monday, the program features a speaker on a subject of technical, scientific, or general interest. Forty-four meetings were held in 2008. It is estimated that some 3830 luncheon meetings have been held over the past 87 years. The presentations are planned to be informative and educational, and provide person to person contact with experts in the field. Meetings take place at the Crowne Plaza on Summit Hill Drive in downtown Knoxville. Complimentary self parking is available in the hotel garage. Meeting attendees receive a token for exiting the garage without charge after the meeting. Members and guests begin arriving around 11:30 and go through the buffet line. Cost is $12 per person payable in cash or by check in the meeting room to the designated collector. Meetings are called to order at 12:00. After a brief transaction of Society business, the guest speaker is introduced. Normally, presentations take about 40 minutes. Time is usually available for questions from the audience. The meetings are adjourned at 13:00. Some programs are scheduled as professional development hours (PDH) to meet the State of Tennessee’s continuing education requirements for professional engineers. These PDHs consist of at least 50 minutes of prepared presentation with discussion reserved for the time after the meeting. The State Licensing Board does not pre-approve such hours and the TSK does not guarantee approval, but strictly meets the Board-specified requirements and issues a certificate of attendance. Monday meetings are announced in the Saturday’s or Sunday’s Knoxville News Sentinel Business Bulletins. Guests are welcome.
For more info go to www. technicalsociety.net
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Upcoming program
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June 2009 Programs
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.
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May 2009 Programs
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
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April 2009 Programs
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)
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March 2009 Programs
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.
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February 2009 Programs
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.
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January 2009 Programs
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.
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December 2008 Programs
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.
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November 2008 Programs
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.
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October 2008 Programs
October 6: Roger C. Dugan, Sr. Consulting Engineer for EPRI Solutions, Inc., Knoxville: Smart Power. PDH.
October 13: Columbus Day - No Meeting.
October 20: Prof. Hanno Weitering, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, and Material Science and Technology Division, ORNL: Changing the mechanical properties of materials to tune the chemical properties. PDH
October 27: Stephen Levy, Consultant: Knoxville - the Ideal Location for Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing.
October Program: Stephen Levy, steve@esper.com.
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September 2008 Programs
September 1: Labor Day - No Meeting.
September 8: Neal Stewart, UT Institute of Agriculture, Racheff Chair of Excellence in Plant Molecular Genetics: Plants to power bioenergy to fuel the future.
September 15: Dr. Kelly J. Tiller, Ph.D., Director of External Operations, Office of Bioengineering Programs: UTIA: University of Tennessee Biofuels Initiative.
September 22: Drew Thurmond, Recycoing Coordinator, Knox County: Impact of transportation logistics and costs on the efficiency of recycling. (PDH)
September 29: Daniel G. de la Torre Ugarte, Associate Professor, UT Dept. of Agricultural Economics, and Associate Director, UT Agricultural Policy and Analysis Center: Biofuels, Food Security and Environmental Sustainability: Global Challenges and Opportunities. Download Power Point Presentation
September Program: Kim Davis, kdavis17@utk.edu. Bob Hill, 200227@charter.net. Jean-Pierre Granju, jean-pierre @granju.net.
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