Volume I  -  Issue 4  -  April 2001

BENEFITS AND SERVICES The Value of Membership Did you know that since 1999, SNAME has signed eight cooperative agreements or strategic alliances with other national and international marine technical societies and associations? They include RINA, IMarE, STG, ABYC, ASNE, SSC, ISO/TC8, and the most recent, Westlawn School of Yacht Design, signed on April 20. These agreements are important because you now have access to considerably more technical information via our linked web sites or through exchanged publications, and opportunities to interact with their members by participating in events of mutual interest such as local meetings, symposia and conferences. In the case of RINA and ImarE, reciprocal memberships are available for those interested and qualified. Currently, SNAME is in various stages of developing additional agreements with CSNAME, SSNAME and LPSNAME in China, SNA(Korea), SNA(Japan), SNAME(Singapore), INTERTANKO, and the Landing School. For contact information concerning any of these organizations or details of our agreements with them, please address your inquiries to Phil Kimball at pkimball@sname.org. MEETS Joint SNAME/ASNE MEETS 2001 Symposium The latest Marine Environmental Information and displays will be at MEETS 2001 Marine Environmental Engineering Technology Symposium 2001 is a joint symposium sponsored by the American Society of Naval Engineers and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers to stimulate exchange over a wide variety of recent challenges and opportunities along the theme "Engineering for a Sustainable Marine Environment". "MEETS 2001" will feature keynote speakers, 32 technical paper presentations and 24 exhibit hall displays. It will be held at the Crystal City Doubletree Hotel, 300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia, on May 31st and June 1st, 2001. There is already broad commercial, government and international participation. We are now in a crucial transition in energy, globalization, regulation, and technology. This symposium should be a must-attend for commercial and government ship operators, designers and maintainers, as well as marine environmental regulators. Wide-ranging topic areas will include both public and commercial ship operations; environmental processes, equipment and technologies; energy management; non-indigenous aquatic invasive species; environmental life cycle management, cost and certification; successful outreach, education and training strategies; and regulations and their impact at all levels. Presentation tracks are planned for Environmental Policy and Regulations, U.S. Navy-Specific Environmental Issues, Aquatic Nuisance Species/Ballast Water, Waste Reduction & Management, Oil Pollution Prevention, and Main Propulsion & Emissions. There are already six other countries included in the program. All persons and groups with an interest in the marine environment are welcome. For further information contact Megan Sinesiou or Kelly Bentley at (703) 836-6727 or registrations@navalengineers.org. Additional information can be found by going to the ASNE website http://www.navalengineers.org/ and scrolling down to Maritime Environmental Symposium in the calendar of major events. PERC COURSE SNAME Needs Your Help At the March 19, 2001 meeting of the SNAME Executive Committee, the Education Committee presented its plans for developing a web-based, distance-learning review course, known as the Professional Engineering Review Course (PERC), for engineers interested in preparing for the P.E. Exam in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. This proposed review course will be ready for use by January 1, 2002. Candidates are expected to complete the course in a 10-week timeframe prior to the exam, which will be administered by 42 states and jurisdictions in April 2002. The course is expected to cost $500 for members and $600 for non-members, and the development costs funded through the Society's operating budget. The Committee has directed Headquarters to seek start-up funding from the industry by asking companies to pay the cost of six courses for $3000 now, in anticipation of having six employees take the course starting in January 2002. For this accommodation we are willing to provide a prepayment credit of $500, resulting in one single payment of $2500, good for six courses. Your check should be made out to "SNAME - PERC", which will designate these funds specifically to the review course development account. Regular electronic reports of status and schedule will be made available to the designated contacts in each participating company over the next eight months. We appreciate your interest and participation in this most worthwhile endeavor by SNAME to enhance the industry by creating an opportunity for the professional licensing of naval architects, marine and ocean engineers. CALL FOR PAPERS The 2002 SNAME Annual meeting will be held in Boston, MA at the Westin Hotel on Sept. 25 to 28, 2002. SNAME Headquarters is currently accepting abstracts for papers to be presented at the technical sessions. Please send your abstract to Connie Cali-Poutre at cpujols@sname.org. CATCHWORD All SNAME Journals Now On Line Now there is another added benefit to your SNAME membership. Along with your free print subscription to Marine Technology, you can have a free on-line subscription as well! In fact, all three SNAME journals (MT, JSR and JSP) were on-line starting April 17th, as fully searchable documents across full text, abstracts, titles, Tables of Contents and figures. Each article will be searchable across multiple journals, and linked to and from abstracting and indexing services. Other benefits to this new service include document-to-document linking via references, and the option to receive a Table of Contents alerting service. For more information on how to access your on-line subscription, log on to http://catchword.com/sname/activate.htm. ANOTHER NEW SNAME PUBLICATION T&R Report R-52, Wave-Tank Studies of Nonlinear Gravity Waves: Comparisons with a Model for Sums of Interacting Long-Crested Stokes Waves on Deep Water, is now available. This latest release joins four other new technical publications released by SNAME in recent months: T&R Bulletin 3-37 (Supplement), to augment the widely used T&R Bulletin 3-37, Design Guide for Shipboard Airborne Noise Control, T&R Report R-53, Reliability-Based Design of Ship Structures: Current Practice and Emerging Technologies, T&R Report R-55, An Evaluation of Fuel Cells for Commercial Ship Applications, and T&R Report R-51, Alternative Hullforms for High-Performance Ferries. To order, contact cpujols@sname.org. RECRUITMENT/MEMBER-GET-A-MEMBER 21st Century Membership Campaign Have you checked your e-mail? By now, you should have received electronic notification of our 21st Century Membership Campaign…… and with it, news of how to win FREE SNAME Memberships, and/or a PALM VII handheld computer! And what's required of you???? Nothing more than to recommend non-member colleagues…… if you click here, you can fill out a form online giving us the names of potential new members. We'll then send membership information and an application to your nominees, and you'll get the credit for all who join……it's that simple. Act now, and be part of SNAME's winning team! LAST CALL FOR DSL SERVICE AT&T networking has submitted a proposal which offers internet access via high speed DSL lines. Several service plans, with multiple options, are available for both home and office. An added bonus: this service can be installed over an existing telephone line, allowing you internet and telephone service simultaneously! Because high-speed internet access is expensive, AT&T is prepared to offer a group rate to SNAME members, resulting in substantial savings if enough members are interested. If you would like to participate please contact: Phil Kimball at 201-798-4800 x 3024 or via e-mail: pkimball@sname.org CIVIL WAR ANNOUNCEMENT Red River Shipwreck Project Fort Towson, Oklahoma July 22 - August 11, 2001 During the summer of 2001 the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Partnering Anthropology with Science and Technology (PAST) Foundation and Indiana University are offering a 3-credit underwater archaeology field school dealing with the Red River Steamboat Wreck. Credit is available for both graduate and undergraduate students. The Oklahoma Historical Society, in conjunction with the PAST Foundation and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, will be excavating Oklahoma's first historic shipwreck site during the summer of 2001. The single-engine side-wheeler, exposed by flooding that changed the river channel, appears to be the earliest Western Rivers steamboat ever studied by archaeologists. Much of the wreckage, which lay buried and preserved under an Oklahoma pasture until the river shifted, is now visible at low water, including portions of the hull, steam engine, and the paddlewheel. For full details, see: http://web.wtez.net/r/h/rh61158/redriver/Application.htm OBITS Headquarters Needs your Help We are lacking information about the following deceased members. The information is needed so that we can write meaningful obituaries for publication in our next Transactions (TR 108). Anyone with knowledge of any of the listed members is kindly asked to contact Eileen Romanelli at Headquarters, (P) 201-798-4800, (F) 201-798-4975 or email eromanelli@sname.org. Your help is greatly appreciated. Name City & State Country Deceased Capt. Roy G. Anderson USN(Ret) Riverside, CA 11/4/2000 Ioannis C. Agouras Kifisia, Greece July, 2000 Wiliam J. Burns Sullivans Island, SC June, 2000 Delma L. Crook Bella Vista Village, AR 10/25/2000 Roger, H. Derusha Memominee, MI 9/2000 Albert J. Dieudonne New Orleans, LA Jan, 1998 D. Wyane Eberhardt Cuyahoga Falls, OH 2/17/2000 Kenneth McRae Garland Rockland, MA 12/31/2000 Adolph Gemmet Bremerton,WA 12/30/1999 E.W. Hazard Boca Raton, FL 1998 Otho H. Haunschild Orange, TX 9/30/2000 Ivar T. Jorstad Walnut Cove, NC March, 2000 Karl W. Kahlenberg Two Rivers, WI unknown A.S. Kallah Rugby, England June, 2000 Nari Gokaldas Kirpalani Kenley, Surrey, England 11/2000 Luis K. Kumasaka Fortaleza-Ceara, Brazil 10/1999 Leonard J. Lucas Key West, FL 2/2000 Capt.Feleciano Manzzutti Ontario, Canada unknown John McCormick Shelter Island Hgts., NY 4/2000 Kenneth A. Payne North Kingstown, RI 2/17/2000 Wilfred H.E. Peters North Vancouver, Canada 6/21/2000 Alberto Q Rivas Madrid, Spain 10/2000 Theodore L. Soo-Hoo Cary, NC 12/18/2000 Jack L. Schmidt Beaumont, TX unknown Pasquale Spinosa Gaeta, Italy 5/1999 John D. Wilson Summerland Key, FL 7/1997 CHINATEC 2001 ANNOUNCEMENT Marintec China 2001 - December 4th - 7th in Shanghai Following the successful visit by the SNAME delegation to Shanghai, Miller Freeman is offering a special exhibitor's package for SNAME Members at this year's exhibition. To learn more about exhibiting, contact Carl Hausheer [Miller Freeman] at [Tel] 609-452-2800 x 102, [Fax] 609-452-2875 or [email] hausheer@aol.com. Also visit their website at http://www.mfchina.com/marintec. SNAME'S AM/IMExpo INFO NOW ON WEBSITE http://www.sname.org/AM2001/2001.htm SNAME - © 2001