Volume 7 Issue
3 Jennifer F. Mize, Editor November 2000
NEWSLETTER
OF THE EAST TENNESSEE SECTION OF AIChe
Local section
website: http://www.geocities.com/aiche_etenn/aiche.html
November
AIChE Meeting
Tour
of King Pharmaceuticals
King Pharmaceuticals Inc., headquartered in Bristol, Tennessee, is a
vertically integrated pharmaceutical company that manufactures, markets, and
sells primarily
branded
prescription pharmaceutical products.
Our local AIChE chapter will be taking a tour of the facility in Bristol
on Friday, November 3 beginning at 1:00 pm.
The
tour will include all aspects of their local operation including a
company/plant overview and the manufacturing operation all the way through
tablet manufacturing, as well as support operations such as the development and
quality labs. The facility in Bristol
manufactures 37 pharmaceutical products that span a wide range of health
categories including cardiovascular, anti-infectives, women’s health, and
influenza virus vaccine.
You
must register for the tour by Wednesday, November 1. Please contact Linda Patterson (423-229-1735 or lnp@eastman.com) for reservations.
What: Tour of King Pharmaceuticals in Bristol, TN
When: Friday, November 3 beginning at 1:00 pm in
Bristol (concluding around 3:30)
King
Pharmaceuticals Inc. is located at 501 5th Street in Bristol, TN.
To
Carpool: Be in the parking lot in front of Eastman’s
B-284 no later than 12:15 pm on Friday, November 3.
To
Drive: Take Exit 3 off I-81 in Bristol (Va.
Side). This turns into Commonwealth and
then to Volunteer Parkway. From
Volunteer Parkway, turn left on Anderson Street, which will take you to 5th
Street. King is located at 501 5th
Street. Arrive before 1:00 pm for
nametags/check-in.
A
few tour guidelines that must be followed:
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No
jewelry will be allowed except medical alert jewelry and wedding bands
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Pants
and socks (or nylons) must be worn – something to cover the legs
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Wear
comfortable shoes to walk through the plant
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We
will be provided with coats, hairnets, beard covers and booties in areas where
those are required.
For
additional information about King, visit their website at www.kingpharm.com.
Linda
Patterson
Message From the Chair
Our local section had another great
program on October 11 (Clare Marshall’s program entitled “Everything I Ever Needed to
Know, I Learned in Distillation and Kinetics”). It was good to have ten members of the Pre-Engineering program at
Northeast State Technical Community College to join us for this meeting. Our next program is a plant tour of King
Pharmaceuticals on November 3, which promises to be very interesting (see
write-up elsewhere in this newsletter).
Our nominations for officers and directors for the 2001 calendar
year are just about complete and the slate of candidates looks excellent. I will be sending out an election ballot,
along with a short bio of each candidate, within the next week or two. Be watching your mail for this ballot and
please vote for the candidates of your choice and return the ballot as soon as
possible prior to the requested deadline.
If you are interested in serving on one of our committees (Program Committee,
Nominating Committee, Awards Committee) or as a co-editor of this Pipeline
newsletter, please contact David Denton at 229-6559. Your volunteer support and your attendance at our monthly
programs are helping to make this an active and vibrant local section of
AIChE. Thanks!
David
L. Denton
Chair,
East TN Section of AIChE
423-229-6559
October Meeting Recap
The
October meeting of the East Tennessee Section of AIChE was held at Giuseppe's
Restaurant in Kingsport where 27 members and guests enjoyed the chemical
engineering fellowship. We were
especially happy to have ten pre-engineering students from Northeast State
Technical Community College with us.
Clare
Marshall, licensed chemical engineer, professional coach, and Vice President of
the Western Carolina Section of AIChE, gave a talk entitled "Everything I
Needed to Know, I Learned in Distillation and Kinetics." Clare talked about distilling life into
energy producers (the overheads) filled with joy, and energy consumers
(the bottoms), which are tolerations.
To do this, one must reduce the tolerations that drain our energy,
identify our needs and healthy ways to meet them, and finally to make
adjustments to orient our lives around our values. Achieving a balanced life by meeting needs while remaining
true to our inner values is the design that leads to joy. This achievement of balance and joy must be
made in the life reactor. We must set boundaries
to protect our joy, raise our standards to fully express our values, and
take action to make it happen.
The final step is to 'mathematically' integrate our joy 'rate equation'
from home to work. That is, the
fullness of joy depends on the integrity of having needs and values met
in all parts of our lives.
We thank everyone who attended and wish them the best of luck in producing joy using their own process design!
Tim
Nolen
Attention Professional Engineers
Did you know that you can fulfill ½ of your annual Continuing
Education Requirement simply by attending AIChE programs? It’s true and we’re
going to make the documentation part easy for you! Six of this year’s programs
meet the eligibility requirements for Professional Development Hour (PDH)
credit. After each of these programs, we will distribute certificates to
attendees, which can be used as documentation if the Engineers and Architects
Board audits you. So come to the programs and bring a friend!
Popular September Meeting Presentation Available
The MS PowerPoint presentation given by George
Wallace, Director of Product Development at Dunlop-Slazenger, is now available
on our website. This popular
presentation on the history and science of the golf ball was given at the
September meeting of the East Tennessee Section. If you missed it, head for the website and take a look!
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AIChE 2000 Annual Meeting
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers' 2000 Annual Meeting, "Exchanging Ideas for Innovation meeting is November 12-17 in Los Angeles, California. To view the technical program or to register on-line, please visit www.aiche.org/annual. NOTE: Register by November 3rd and enjoy significant savings over the on-site registration price.
This year's offerings
including Topical Conferences on BIOINFORMATICS and GENOMICS, CHEMICAL
ENGINEERING EDUCATION, ENERGY and the ENVIRONMENT, and INDUSTRIAL PARTICLE
TECHNOLOGY. For more information or to
register, please visit www.aiche.org/annual
or call toll-free 1.800.242.4363.
Local Section Officers,
Directors, and Support Staff
Chair: David
Denton 229-6559
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
and Program Committee Chair: David
Hitch 229-5398
Secretary: Brian
Joyner 229-6193
Treasurer: Richard
Colberg 229-3184
Directors: Joe
Bays 229-5854
Joe
Parker 229-3850
Mark
Harrison 229-4861
Local Section Webmaster: Tim
Nolen 229-8287
AIChE Pipeline
Newsletter Editor: Jennifer
Mize 224-7018
ETEAC
Representatives: Beth
Alderson 229-8163
Vera
Williams McGill 224-0959
Roy
Conn 229-2642