News & Feedback

Following the City of Chattanooga and CDC guidelines, and out of an abundance of caution and concern for our members and visitors health, CEC will not hold meetings and tours until further notice. However, we are attempting to arrange some online sessions and will email and post in the usual way as those plans develop. We welcome your suggestions!

The 2020 MATHCOUNTS Chattanooga Competition is scheduled for Saturday February 8th.  This year the competition will be held at the Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy (CGLA).  Signs will guide you to the testing location from the main entrance of the school.  The address is:

                Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy

                1802 Bailey Avenue,

                Chattanooga, TN 37404

The competition schedule will be as follow: 

• Registration will start at 8:30 AM.
• The competition will begin at 9:00 AM.
• The speed round will begin after lunch at 11:30 PM, and awards will be presented following that competition (All are welcome to attend this exciting portion of the event).
• The competition should conclude at 12:30 PM.

TSPE is the sponsor of this annual event, Chattanooga E Week appreciate Jeff Parris coordination for many years.  Please contact Jeff if you wish to volunteer.  All E Week events details are available at the Chattanooga Engineers Week site (http://www.chattanoogaengineersweek.com/).

TN Valley Robotics Squared Away Tournament was held on January 18 at Volkswagen Chattanooga Conference Center with more than 40 teams / 500 students participating.

Award recipients:

Elementary School Excellence Award - Farragut Fleet

Middle School Excellence Award - CSLA Eaglets

Teamwork Champions - Bacon & Eggs; CSLA Eaglets

Teamwork 2nd Place - CSLA RoboMechanics; CSLA Cyber Eagles

Robot Skill Champion - CSLA Eagles

Robot Skill 2nd Place - CSLA RoboMechanics

Design Award - CSLA RoboMechanics

Teams will compete at the state level in Brentwood, Tennessee.  The state champion will go to the world competition in Louisville, Kentucky.

Thanks to all the partner organizations, ASCE, ASME, CRMA, AGC, IEEE, CEC, TSPE, SWE ...E Week 2020 will again celebrate Chattanooga region's engineers and engineering achievements.

Chattanooga area engineers have been celebrating Engineers Week (or E-Week at it is generally termed) since the event was established in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. It is celebrated throughout the country by some 70 engineering, education, and cultural societies, and more than 50 corporations and government agencies. In 1960 the Chattanooga Engineers Club officially recognized E-week by bestowing the awards of “Engineer of the Year” and “Engineer of the Decade”. These were intended to honer local engineers for their unselfish devotion to public service. Since then, the Club expanded the scope to include “People to People”, “Young Engineer of the Year” and “Technician of the Year” awards. These awards are presented at the annual Awards Banquet that includes a presentation by a prominent speaker on timely topics relevant to the engineering and technical community.

Please volunteer at various STEM activities supported by Chattanooga E Week and attend E Week Kickoff Luncheon on Feb 17 at UTC, and E Week Award Banquet on Feb 20 at the Downtown Marriott.

Many thanks to Al Curtis for serving as the Engineers Club President in 2019 !!

Attached find his summary of the year and ending thoughts. (Past Presidents continue to serve on the leadership team.)

2019 Chattanooga Engineers Club Year End Report Final.pdf

CEC will join the Society of Women Engineers, Chattanooga Area Section, at their Annual Scholarship Fundraiser, including wine tasting, heavy hors d'oeuvres, silent auction items, and opportunities to win prizes. Proceeds from this event will fund scholarships for women in engineering and engineering technology at Chattanooga State Community College and at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Date and Time

Fri, December 6, 2019

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST

Location

The Edney Innovation Center - 5th Floor

1100 Market Street

Chattanooga, TN 37402

$30 for one, $50 for couple

must purchase tickets in advance!

Harry Hawkins, past president (2015), presented Grady Stout, PE, Engineering Manager of Tennessee American Water as our nominee for 2020 president.  Mr. Stout joined Tennessee American in 2013, earned is PE license in 2015.  He graduated from Tennessee Technology University with a BS in Civil Engineering.  He will serve as a member of our programming committee immediately.

President Al Curtis appointed three past presidents to the nomination committee.  Lulu Copeland, Harry Hawkins, and Julie Alcantara are serving as members of our 2019 nomination committee. They  will announce their nominations for 2020 officers and committee members at the November 11 meeting.

The Engineers Club will begin to offer Corporate Memberships for 2020 as follows: 

(Compare to $50/yr for an Individual)

Up to 5 members for $200.  ($40/person)

Up to 20 members for $600.  ($30/person)

Up to 50 members for $1250.  ($25/person)

The website membership process will be set to accept these payments, but any company wishing to enroll may contact an officer or email info@ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org for assistance.

President Al Curtis announced today that over $420,000 received from the Frazier estate has been placed with the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga.  As explained last spring in E-week, Chatt State and UTC will each receive $10,000 per year to distribute through their own engineering scholarship processes, and CFGC will award another $10,000 per year to local engineering students who apply through them and meet the criteria established by the Engineers Club.  Initial awards apply to the 2019-2020 academic year.