Introduction Letter by Devin Witt:
University of Michigan – College of Engineering
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Building
2600 Draper Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48649
April 30th, 2012
Dear SNAME Student Section Leaders,
It is my honor to present to you
the 2012 Student Section Standards Guide to help your school’s SNAME
student sections grow and continue to prosper. This guide is the sum
total of 11 successful SNAME student leaders, and is updated yearly by
the Student Section Standards Committee (SSS) to address new ideas, new
programs, and new policies.
The guide addresses management
techniques along with comments and advice on how to run and organize a
successful SNAME student section both foreign and domestic. The
appendices include a variety of useful documents and checklist such as
financial checklist, monthly student section duty checklist, and
procedures for starting a new SNAME student section. This guide also
includes a list of your local young professional chairs along with
contact information for many maritime companies. Keep this information
close by because you never know when you may want to contact a company
to present to your student section or you may need some advice from a
local young professional.
The information in this guide will
be very useful to you and your student sections thus feel free to review
the guide and allow other members of your student section to review it
as well. If you have any questions that are not answered in this guide
or further comments, please do not hesitate to contact me at
devinw@umich.edu at any time.
Sincerely,
Devin Witt, SSS Committee Chairman 2012
SSS Committee Members
Mark Groden, University of Michigan, SSC Chairman
Stefan Wolczko, Guido Perla and Associates
Gaelen Kraus, Past SSS Chairman
Alana Alissa Yoshiko Anderson, SNAME HQ