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TVA engineer wins national recognition
Stephen Craven, a former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor who has been the architect for much of TVA’s cybersecurity and transmission control network, was recognized Friday at the 2023 Federal Engineer of the Year.
The 46-year-old electrical engineer joined TVA a decade ago after earning his doctorate from Virginia Tech and working as a computer chip designer, security researcher and ultimately a professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Craven is responsible for cybersecurity efforts at TVA’s substations. His design has been copied by other utilities through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to help modernize the nation’s power grid, improving resiliency while remaining safe from cybersecurity threats.
In his acceptance speech Friday, Craven said he believes engineers at TVA and other federal agencies are motivated by a sense of public service.
Craven was this year’s TVA Engineer of the Year and he competed for the national honor with top engineers from all federal agencies and departments. Craven is the first winner of the Federal Engineer of the Year from TVA since 1982.
Eastside Utility wins water tasting contest
Eastside Utility District has the best-tasting water in the Chattanooga region, according to a tasting contest sponsored by the Tennessee Association of Utility Districts.
Eastside was recently named the winner of the Region 10 water contest for the third year in a row.
Participating as judges for the contest were John Little with Middle Tennessee State University, Lisa Porter with Signals and Solutions by SET, and Jenna Hazelet with ServLine and included water utilities serving Bledsoe, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Polk, Rhea, Sequatchie, and Van Buren counties.
Eastside and other regional winners will compete at the Tennessee Association of Utility District’s 2023 annual meeting in for a statewide honor held in conjunction with the National Rural Water Association’s Rural Water Rally.
Cosori to recall 2 million air fryers
Cosori is voluntarily recalling more than 2 million of its air fryers after a fault was discovered that created fire and burn hazards, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety and Commission announced Thursday.
The commission said it had received 205 reports of the air fryers catching fire, burning, melting, overheating or smoking. Ten people reported minor burn injuries, and 23 people reported minor property damage.
The issue stems from a wire connection that can overheat, the commission said. About 2 million of the air fryers have been sold in the United States, in addition to about 250,000 in Canada and 21,000 in Mexico.
“Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled air fryers and contact Cosori to receive their choice of a free replacement air fryer or another Cosori product,” the commission said in a statement.
The recall applies to 21 different models. The full list is available on Cosori’s recall website, and owners can find the model number by looking on the bottom of their air fryer.
Cosori said on its website that those with the recalled products should “please stop using the appliance immediately” and that it was issuing the recall voluntarily “out of an abundance of caution.” It said the overheating occurred “in extremely rare circumstances.”
Parker to step down at American Airlines
American Airlines said Thursday that Doug Parker, who served as CEO for more than eight years before stepping down last year, will retire as chairman on April 30.
The new chairman will be Greg Smith, who spent more than 30 years at Boeing including the last 10 as chief financial officer.
Smith’s duties at Boeing included oversight of manufacturing and quality programs during development and rollout of the 737 Max, which was grounded worldwide after two deadly crashes. He briefly served as interim CEO after Dennis Muilenburg was ousted in late 2019.
Smith, 56, retired from Boeing in a surprise move in early 2021, then joined American’s board in January 2022.
Parker, 61, was CEO of US Airways when he engineered a 2013 merger that put him and his executive team in charge of American Airlines, which was just emerging from bankruptcy protection.
— Compiled by Dave Flessner
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