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Membership Categories

The SNAME Executive Committee is considering a change to the bylaws that would eliminate the competence and experience requirements that distinguish the different grades of membership: Member and Associate Member. This would essentially reduce our membership categories to Fellow, Member, Affiliate, and Student. Would you support such a change?

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Updated Membership Directory On-line

The SNAME Membership Directory is available on-line to all members. The membership listing is updated approximately every 60 days. The latest version was uploaded this week. Click here to access the Membership Directory which features:

• List of Members (~ 5.0 Mb PDF file)
• On-line list of members (change your contact information, look up an individual)
• General Information
• Society Bylaws
• Society Administration and Staff
• Awards
• Scholarships
• Members of Distinction
• Membership Application
• SNAME Strategic Plan

Website Survey Reminder

As a reminder, if you have not yet completed the Website User Survey, please take a few minutes and respond today. This survey was developed based upon member needs uncovered in the Member Value Survey conducted earlier this year. That survey told us that the website is an area of keen interest to our members. Consequently, SNAME has embarked on a significant project to gather your perspectives and needs on its use of the Web. Our goal in this project is to define the organization’s web strategy and implement the type of business tools, content, and Web functionality that will make the SNAME website an indispensable resource for you. To that end, we are inviting all SNAME members to participate in an online survey that has been designed to collect your needs and preferences for the website.

Please follow the link that was provided to you via e-mail to participate in the survey. If you have already participated, thank you and please ignore this reminder. The survey should take about 15 minutes to complete. If you have comments or suggestions beyond this survey, please contact us via email to Susan Giver, Marketing and Communications Director : email - sgiver@sname.org.

We look forward to receiving your input and hope that you will take a few minutes this week to participate in this important effort. Thank you.

Grand Re-opening of
High-Speed Towing Tank at Stevens

SNAME was represented at the grand re-opening of the Stevens Institute of Technology and The Center for Maritime Systems’ re-commissioning of the high-speed towing tank at the Davidson Laboratory December 11, 2006. A major force in maritime research since it opened in 1944, the tank reopened this month after a 16-month expansion project. The new capabilities will assist in the design of fast, ships and boats for commerce, pleasure, and national defense.

Now 66% larger, the new tank will be the “most advanced facility of its kind in the United States,” said Hal Raveche, president of Stevens. The increased size will allow the testing of bigger models and more complex ocean behavior, with better viewing areas and new capabilities for modeling the full complexity of interactions between a ship and the ocean.

In his speech to event attendees, Phil Kimball, SNAME’s Executive Director remarked, “the newly re-commissioned high-speed towing tank at Stevens will provide enhanced capability to support this country’s vital efforts to maintain its lead in maritime technology while supporting both our nation’s critical defense base and its long heritage as a seafaring nation prominent in world trade.”

(Material obtained from press release reported by Maritime Technology Reporter 12/18/2006.)

ASNE Events

High Speed / High Performance Ships & Craft Symposium
Annapolis, Maryland
January 23-24, 2007
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Human Systems Integration Symposium 2007
(HSIS 2007)
Military, Industry and Academia: Bridging Human Performance Science to Engineering Practice
Loews Annapolis Hotel, Annapolis, Maryland
March 19-21, 2007
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Intelligent Ships Symposium VII
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Bassone Research Enterprise Center
May 9-10, 2007
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International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships
deadline for abstracts extended to January 15, 2007

ICCGS 2007 is the fourth conference on collision and grounding of ships and related accidents. The conference is scheduled from September 9­12, 2007 at Hamburg University of Technology, Institute for Ship Structural Design and Analysis in Hamburg, Germany. STG is the organizer for the 2007 conference. The first conference was held in San Francisco in 1996, the second in Denmark 2001, the third in Japan 2004. For more information see www.ICCGS2007.de. For a copy of the original call for papers and first announcement click here.

Upcoming Events
(Click on logos for details)

	2007 SNAME Maritime Technology Conference & Expo and Ship Production Symposium November 13-16, 2007 Fort Lauderdale, FL
	High Speed, High Performance Ships & Crafts Workshop 01/23/07 - 01/24/07 Annapolis, MD
	Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium 03/02/07 - 03/03/07 Annapolis, MD
	Human Systems Integration Symposium 2007 03/19/07 - 03/21/07 Annapolis, MD
	SHIPPING 2007 03/19/07 - 03/21/07 Stamford,CT
	ASNE Day 2007 06/25/07 - 06/26/07 Arlington, VA
	ICCGS 2007 09/09/07 - 09/12/07 Hamburg,Germany
	International Symposium On Maritime Safety, Security & Environmental Protection 09/20/07 - 09/21/07 Athens, Greece
	FAST 2007 09/23/07 - 09/27/07 Shanghai, China
	PRADS 2007 10/01/07 - 10/05/07 Houston, TX
	2008 SMTC&E/SPS 10/14/08 - 10/17/08 Houston, TX