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• CEC/ASCE/ASME/ChaTech/IEEE - Thrive Regional Infrastructure Portal (TRIP)

  • When
    14 Jul 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    1250 Market Street (DRC - 1A)
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    18 registrants

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  The joint program will feature ChaTech's 2023 Early Innovator Award recipient, Shannon Millsap for the research and implementation of TRIP.

  Speaker:

  Shannon Millsaps, Chief Operating Officer of Thrive.

  About Thrive and TRIP

  Thrive Regional Partnership (Thrive) is an independent nonprofit agency that leverage cross-sector relationships and data to advance long-term, sustainable growth practices across the tri-state greater Chattanooga region. Thrive's footprint includes southeast Tennessee, northwest Georgia, and northeast Alabama.

  The Thrive Regional Infrastructure Portal (TRIP) is a geospatial data portal that is the first of its kind to integrate information from across three states (Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee) that are critical corridors of the southeastern supply chain network. The resulting research is a resource to several sectors in the 16-county region and beyond, including the logistics and manufacturing industries, public leaders, and educational institutions that have supply chain and transportation professional programs.

  Built by Thrive Regional Partnership and Georgia Tech, TRIP is providing a gateway to learn more about freight industry, logistics data, and transportation infrastructure in the greater Chattanooga region. Shannon Millsaps will share how users can access to read StoryMaps, interact with regional maps, and to access transportation and freight-related datasets.
  

  
  

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• SFI - Critical Networks in Manufacturing Forum

  • When
    31 Jul 2025
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    11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    2215 Parker Street NE, Cleveland, TN 37311

  
  

  About the Event

  If you could design your factory to be everything you wanted it to be, which technologies would you include? What would your throughput look like? And most importantly...do you have a secure and private network in place to help bring your plans to life?

  Discussions will include how intelligent wireless infrastructure can accelerate your manufacturing operations and improve your security, reliability, scalability, and integration.
  

  ​Schedule of the event:

  11:00am Registration & Networking

  11:30am Welcome

  Denise (Rice) Hall

  President & CEO, Peak Performance Inc.

  12:00pm Keynote 

  Janet Rehberg

  President | Strategic Initiatives Business Unit, EPB

  Building Resilient Manufacturing Ecosystems with Quantum Networks

  1:15pm

  Klint Walker 

  Cyber Security Advisor, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

  Securing the Future of Manufacturing from Cyber Threats

  1:45pm

  Becky Faith

  Director of Business Development ; FocustApps

  Upgrading Legacy Systems in Manufacturing: Challenges, Strategies, and Success Stories

  2:05pm

  Chan Gill

  Vertical Market Manager- Factory Automation, Phoenix Contact

  Securing Your Industrial Network: Strategies for Resilience and Reliability

  2:15pm

  Closing Remarks

  2:30pm

  Optional tour: PIE Innovation Center 

  Tickets available to attend in person or virtual.

  For updates and registration, click HERE.

   

  
  

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• CEC/ASME - Volunteering @ Chattanooga Food Bank

  • When
    31 Jul 2025
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Chattanooga Area Food Bank, 2009 Curtain Pole Rd Chattanooga, TN 37406

  Please join us "Volunteering" at the Chattanooga Food Bank.

  Chattanooga Engineers Club and ASME Chattanooga Section

  •  Main Warehouse located at 2009 Curtain Pole Road

  • Thursday, July 31st, 2025    1-4pmET

  • You must register @ the Chattanooga Food Bank link:

  The reservation is available on your Chattanooga Engineers Club landing page on our new volunteer portal. 

  https://chattfoodbank.volunteerhub.com/vv2/lp/ChattanoogaEngineers
  

  • Maximum volunteers are 25, so please register early.

  • Be sure to click on our group (Chattanooga Engineers) when prompted.   Sign in and/or create account.

  • Please wear close-toed shoes and bring a water bottle.

  Thank you again for volunteering in our Chattanooga community, and to help us fight hunger in our Chattanooga community. 

  We look forward to having you join in!

  We may also plan a social (TBD) after the volunteering at Chattanooga Food Bank.

  
  

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• Mechanical Seals 101 - Technical Topic Presentation

  • When
    4 Aug 2025
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Chattanooga State CETAS Building (Gerald McCormick), Room MCC107-109
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  CEC (lead) and ASME hosting joint meeting:

  Join us for a technical topic - "Mechanical Seals 101"

  Date:  Monday August 11th, 2025 11:30-1:00pm ET

  Location:  Chattanooga State CETAS Building (Gerald McCormick), Room 182.    Please enter through the Wacker Institute entrance of the building.

  Presenter:   Rick Walker (Branch Manager) - Tencarva Machinery

  A mechanical seal is simply a method of containing fluid within a vessel (typically pumps, mixers, reactors, etc.) where a rotating shaft passes through a stationary housing or occasionally, where the housing rotates around the shaft.

  The challenge is to allow a rotating shaft to enter the ‘wet’ area of the equipment (pump, vessel), without allowing pressurized fluid to escape.

  To address this challenge there needs to be a seal between the shaft and the pump housing that can contain the pressure of the process being pumped and withstand the friction caused by the shaft rotating.  Thus, mechanical seals are precision, dynamic devices that are used to seal process fluids from the environment.

  Today, the same basic components and fundamental principles apply to all mechanical seals, but this technology has evolved over the past 100 years, so seal users have a variety of choices to meet their specific technical, commercial and reliability needs.

  The purpose of this technical topic is to give users a foundational background in the technology of mechanical seals from which they can start to make informed decisions regarding the different types and configurations available for today’s applications.

  Lunch - $10 (pizza, water, soft drinks) - register/pay within CEC website

  This event should qualify for 1 PDH. Requested PDH's are included with active memberships; $10 for non-members, which can be applied to a membership.

  
  

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• Tour of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) @ Arnold Air Force Base - Tullahoma TN

  • When
    12 Sep 2025
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    8:30 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    100 Kindel Drive, A236 Arnold AFB, TN 37389
  • Spaces left
    12
  • Registered
    13 registrants

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  ASME and CEC hosting joint tour.

  Join us for tour of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) @ Arnold Air Force Base - Tullahoma TN 

  Maximum attendees set to only 25, so register early. 

  Tours - https://www.arnold.af.mil/Home/Tours/

  Date:  Sept 12th, 2025

  Time:  Morning - Meet by 8:45am Central Time at Visitor Center - AEDC

  Tour length will be from 8:45am-11:30am Central Time.   Attendees responsible for own travel to/from AEDC in Tullahoma, TN.

  Directions from Chattanooga:   

  EXIT 117 and turn left. The Main Gate is the only gate with a red light on Wattendorf Memorial HWY. You will then turn in towards the gate, once you have passed the three static aircraft displays on your right, you’ll the see the Visitor Cetner on your right. You can park there. AEDC will provide bus and driver for 25 visitors for tour of complex.   Be at Visitor Center around 8:45 a.m. Cemtral time to meet everyone. 

  Attendees will be required to sign AEDC "Release- Hold Harmless Agreement" - prior to tour.   You will receive this form a week prior to the tour date.  You must be a US Citizen and show State/Federal ID (such as Driver's License or US Passport) before entry.   

  Special Provisions for Foreign Nationals, please reach out to Robert Gagliano (robertgagliano@epbfi.com) before August 5th (see tour link above).   

  Engineering College Students - are welcome to attend.  

  Attendees must meet the requirements listed on linked website:

  Tours - https://www.arnold.af.mil/Home/Tours/

  Tour Content/Dress
  Tours are conducted in an industrial area and involve walking, some on steel grating, and climbing stairs. Comfortable walking shoes should be worn. DO NOT WEAR HIGH HEELS, OPEN-TOED SHOES OR SANDALS. Anyone not wearing appropriate footwear will not be allowed to tour. Children 8 years old or older are welcome to tour.
  

  Following tour - optional lunch in Winchester, TN (return trip, TBD)

  
  

  
  

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• Factory Tour - Beretta USA (Gallatin, TN)

  • When
    7 Nov 2025
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    9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    1399 Gateway Dr, Gallatin, TN 37066

  ASME, CEC and CRMA hosting joint meeting.

  Join us for a factory tour of Beretta USA - Gallatin TN

  Date:  November 7th, 2025

  Time:  9:00amCT (Central Time)   

  Location:  Beretta USA Tennessee Campus, 1399 Gateway Dr, Gallatin, TN 37066

  Founded in 1526 in Gardone Val Trompia (Italy) by the Beretta Family, who has now been leading the company for 15 generations, Fabbrica d’Armi Pietro Beretta S.p.A. is today an international manufacturer of commercial firearms, military weapons, and products designed for outdoor sports such as hunting, competition, and tactical shooting.

  The Beretta brand is dedicated to supporting outdoor enthusiasts, military members, and law enforcement officers by providing them with a complete ecosystem of products, including firearms, clothing, accessories, and services. Featuring the most modern technologies, assembly lines, quality control, and local, highly qualified workers, who hand down the same Italian traditions of gunsmithing since the Renaissance, Beretta continually achieves the degree of accuracy and quality that made this global company a world-renowned brand.

  Today, under the leadership of Ugo Gussalli Beretta and his sons Pietro and Franco, Beretta embarks on the 3rd Millennium with the benefit of centuries of experience. That experience, combined with investments in technology, organization and growing product lines, has prepared Beretta for the demands of the global market of the 21st century. Quality Without Compromise. This core value of total commitment to quality was established by Bartolomeo Beretta almost five centuries ago, and continues to be the bedrock of our Company today. As a crucial part of our Mission, it remains the unchanging key to Beretta’s worldwide success.

  Beretta USA Firearms 
  

  A quick glimpse into the new Beretta plant
  

  
  

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