Career Center Update -
Internship Job Postings

To meet the demands of the ever growing industry, SNAME now offers its members the opportunities to post open internship positions on the job board for free! Member employers can visit the job board and pay no fee to find qualified interns. Non-members can post internships as well for the nominal fee of $50. This is a great opportunity for members and nonmembers, job seekers and employers alike.

Employers will have the chance to post their positions on the job board in which interns are looking through the listings. It’s difficult to find an internship today in your specialized field and SNAME has recognized that and is bringing interns and employers together.

The career center is also a great resource for the interns. Not only do they provide special internship postings, but an intern can post their career profile on the website for employers to browse. This allows interns to showcase their talents and let employers come to them as well.

If you have any questions about the internship postings, please feel free to contact customer service at 1-888-575-WORK (9675) or custserv@jobtarget.com.

Member Benefit Update - SNAME Members’ Insurance Program
For Association Members & Their Families

The SNAME Members’ Insurance Program is designed to help provide you and your family with high quality insurance plans. This program, especially designed for SNAME members in good standing, features a wide variety of products at group rates, which are offered through highly rated, quality insurance companies.
The following SNAME-sponsored insurance products offer coverage with extensive options that can be tailored to meet your individual needs:

• Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• Cancer Protection
• Group Catastrophic Major Medical
• Medicare Supplement
• Group Term Life
• and a Group Discount Dental Plan

The SNAME Members’ Insurance Program strives to meet and exceed your expectations. We are committed to helping provide the insurance protection you and your family need at competitive group rates.
This high quality collection of insurance programs features:

• Broad coverage
• Competitive group rates
• Superior service
• Quality insurance companies

Plan ahead.
To learn more about any of these insurance products--including plan features, costs, eligibility, renewability, limitations, exclusions and underwriting companies--and to access product application forms click here where members will be able to access a downloadable enrollment form.

Questions?
Please call the administrator, Selman & Company, at 1-800-556-7614, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.

Plans may vary, may not be available in all states and are not available outside the United States.

Section Award Nominations

To All Section Chairmen:

The nomination forms for the 2008 Awards have been mailed to all of you and hopefully by this time you have received the package. The Medals to be awarded in 2008 are The Vice Admiral 'Jerry' Land' Medal "for outstanding accomplishment in the marine field," the Davidson Medal "for outstanding scientific accomplishment in ship research" and the David W. Taylor Medal "for notable achievement in naval architecture and/or marine engineering." Nomination forms were also included in the package for the Distinguished Service Award and the William M. Kennedy Award. The deadline for receipt of the nominations is March 15, 2008, to allow time for the 2008 Awards Committee to review all before the Awards meeting. You were also sent a nomination form and guidelines for the Student Paper Awards with a deadline of March 1, 2008, in order to have enough time for the Ad Hoc Student Papers Committee to review all papers received and designate the student awards. Additional forms and requirements for all of the awards are on the SNAME web site as well as a list of all of the previous awardees. If you have an Awards Rep in your Section, please send in his/her name and we will forward the same package for their information.*

To Section Chairmen in the Pacific and Atlantic North Regions

2008 Ballot for Election of Regional Vice Presidents

The Pacific and Atlantic North Regions will have election for Regional Vice Presidents in 2008. Each Section in the two Regions can send in a candidate for election to Regional Vice President in 2008. The term for the elected RVP, one from each of the two Regions will be elected, would start on January 1, 2009. Information on the election of Regional Vice Presidents and their responsibilities while in that office, Guidelines for Regional Vice Presidents, and a sample bio for a candidate for RVP for the SNAME Ballot, has been forwarded via email to the Section Chairmen in the following Sections: Philadelphia, New York Metropolitan, New England, Canadian Atlantic, Pacific Northwest, Northern California, Southwest, and Hawaii Sections. The deadline for receipt of candidates is April 1, 2008.

Barbara Trentham
Executive Administrator and Liaison to the Awards Committee

* Send information on your Section Awards Representative to Fred Goldfarb - fgoldfarb@sname.org.

National Association of Marine Surveyors, Inc.

46th Annual National Marine Conference East
New Orleans, LA.
April 14-15, 2008
www.nams-cms.org

Ocean engineering is a relatively new engineering discipline whose future is linked to mankind's need to use natural energy and mineral resources beneath the sea's surface. It is only recently that authoritative books and references are available in this discipline for use by practitioners in industry and for academic instruction. This text addresses the application of engineering principles for the analysis, design, development and management of systems that must function in a water environment.

List price: $98.00
SNAME Member price: $75.00

Order Elements of Ocean Engineering at www.sname.org or by contacting Tommie-Anne Faix (tfaix@sname.org or 201-499-5068)

The focus of this book is state-of-the-art technology and its application to the principals and practices of shipbuilding employing group technology. The authors present a system aimed at optimizing productivity in shipbuilding under current technological conditions. Also included are chapters devoted to basic manufacturing and construction processes and the design for production and CAD/CAM applications. The book is suitable for the upperclass undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as serving as a valuable resource for practicing shipbuilding professionals. This important text was also co-authorized by four authorities in the field; Richard L. Storch, Associate Professor at the University of Washington; Colin P. Hammon, Consultant, Institute for Defense Analysis; Howard M. Bunch, NavSea Professor Emeritus; and Richard C. Moore, Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.

List price: $85.00
SNAME Member price: $65.00

Order Ship Production (Softcover) at www.sname.org or by contacting Tommie-Anne Faix (tfaix@sname.org or 201-499-5068)

The medal and $20,000 cash prize will be presented to the recipient at an awards ceremony during the 2009 Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. The award has no restrictions with regard to citizenship or country of residence.

The nomination process has been simplified from past years. All that is required is a letter of three pages or fewer describing the candidate's work and why he/she should be selected, a curriculum vitae that includes citizenship and date of birth, a short bibliography of 12 or fewer major publications, and up to three supporting letters. The items can be sent by e-mail to the NAS at awards@nas.edu. Also, nominators -- and nominees -- do not need to be NAS members.

Self-nominations are not accepted
The deadline for Nominations is September 15, 2008.

For more information about the Medal, click here.

Upcoming Events
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	Chesapeake Power Boat Symposium 03/07/08 - 03/08/08 St. John's College Annapolis, MD
	Shipping 2008 03/17/08 - 03/19/08 Stamford,CT
	Classic Yacht Symposium 04/04/08 - 04/06/08 Bristol, RI
	Offshore Technology Conference 2008 05/05/08 - 05/08/08 Reliant Center Houston, TX
	Launch & Recovery of Manned and Unmanned Vehicles on Surface Platforms 2008 05/19/08 - 05/21/08 Annapolis, MD
	ASNE Day 2008 06/23/08 - 06/24/08 Washington, D.C.
	ICETECH 2008 07/20/08 - 07/23/08 Banff, Alberta, Canada
	2nd International Symposium on "Ship Operations, Management, and Economics" 09/17/08 - 09/18/08 Athens, Greece
	IBEX 2008 10/06/08 - 10/08/08 Miami Beach, FL
	2008 SMTC&E/SPS 10/15/08 - 10/17/08 Houston, TX
	The International Workboat Show 2008 12/03/08 - 12/05/08 New Orleans, LA
	WMTC 2009 01-21-09 - 10/24/09 Maumbai, India