S/S UNITED STATES Acquired by
Cruise Line for US Flag Operation
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) announced today
it has purchased the S/S United States,
and will convert the vessel to a state-of-the art cruise ship, part of a planned
US-flagged fleet. The S/S United States will join other US-built ships in the
NCL fleet, including the two partially completed Project America ships purchased
from Northrop Grumman in September 2002, and the S/S Independence, recently purchased
from the U.S. Maritime Administration. For more information, click
here.
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Congratulations
to all 2003 Graduating
SNAME Student Members |
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SNAME offers the following
benefits to assist you in your career path:
Job Opportunities |
Free enrollment in local SNAME section |
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Medical Insurance |
Immediate upgrade to Associate Member |
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Post-graduate scholarships |
Professional Referral Program |
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Networking |
Associate Membership Certificate |
To take advantage of the
above benefits, we need to know your contact information.
Please provide your graduation
date, business address (if applicable), home address, email address and phone
number to your SNAME Representative, Ms. Linda Miller lmiller@sname.org.
Upon receipt of this information,
your Associate Member certificate will be mailed to you, and your membership
record upgraded accordingly.
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Student Steering Committee Update
The Student
Steering Committee (SSC) wishes to keep SNAME's general membership
informed of the events and achievements of our many Student Chapters. This issue
of the SNAMeNewsLetter features a spotlight on Virginia
Techs' Student Chapter. Please click on this link:
www.sname.org/student_sections/VT_eNews.pdf
The SSC will be contacting
other chapters through their representatives to identify spotlights for the
upcoming months. If your chapter is interested, feel free to contact John Hootman,
the SSC Vice Chair, at jhootman@mit.edu.
If you do not know who your representative is, they can be found on the Contacts
page of the SSC website:
www.sname.org/student_sections/index.htm.
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Speed Your Graduate Education Online
This Summer and Get 10% Off Your Tuition
If you're looking to earn
your Master's or complete a graduate certificate, Stevens
Institute of Technology, in cooperation with the SNAME, is delivering
more than 40 top-level online courses this summer to help you speed things along.
As a member of SNAME, you receive a 10% discount
off regular tuition. Online courses are taught by the same superior
faculty who teach on campus. WebCampus "virtual" summer classes start
in May.
Look at online summer courses
available - click
here
Then register for these programs today at http://es.stevens-tech.edu/ahomepg.htm
If you're not
a Stevens graduate student, and you'd like to register for an online class this
summer, click here.
ONLINE
MANAGEMENT COURSES IN:
Management of Wireless Networks
Project Management
Technology Management
Telecommunications Management
ONLINE
TECHNOLOGY COURSES IN:
Computer Science
Financial Engineering
Multimedia Technology
Networked Information Systems
Photonics
Quantitative Software Engineering
Secure Network Systems Design
Wireless Communications
Looking forward to having
you enroll today.
Robert Ubell
Dean, Online Learning
Stevens Institute of Technology
Tel: 1(800)496-4935
www.webcampus.stevens.edu
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Sandwich Laminate Course - ready when you are!
This new course was designed for SNAME by Dr. Deborah Weissman-Berman, President
of ENGI, as a SNAME Distance Learning Professional Level Course. The course will
be offered at dates to be determined by the number of applications.
Click here for more information about the course,
and then send an e-mail message to eromanelli@sname.org
indicating if you would prefer to take the course during May, June, July, or August.
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ICMES 2003
ICMES 2003 is scheduled
for May 18-21 in Helsinki and Stockholm, and is sponsored by SNAME, IMarEST,
and the NY Met Section. Papers will address Environmental Issues, Ship Machinery
Systems, and Industrial Information Technology in Marine Applications. Details
of the program are posted on the web site, www.hut.fi/Units/Ship/ICMES2003,
along with on-line registration forms and exhibition information.
The Conference will start
at Helsinki Technical University, and will continue as a cruising conference
onboard MS Silja Serenade en route to Stockholm. Airfares to Helsinki
have never been lower. For information about the ship and a map of the route
to Stockholm, click here. The Conference
will end in Helsinki, with post-conference tours of the ABB facilities and the
KMY Helsinki Shipyard. For information about Helsinki Technical University,
click here.
For general information
about Helsinki and Stockholm, see www.hel.fi/english/
and www.stockholmtown.com/intro.html.
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SUNY Open House
The State University of
New York Maritime College (www.sunymaritime.edu)
is holding open house tours for interested students and their families on
Sunday May 4th. The college accepts out-of-state
and international students as well as NY State residents. Students from AL,
CT, DE, FL, GA, LA, MI, MD, NJ, NC, PA, RI, SC, VA pay New York State tuition
rates.
Click
here for SUNY Maritime Highlights.
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SNAME
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“Hearts
of Gold” |
In speaking with a SNAME member last week on
the current situation in Iraq, and inquiring if he had heard from his son who is serving in
the military, it was brought to our attention that there was a way we could show our support
for all of those brave young men and women serving in Iraq, many of them sons and daughters
of SNAME members. Who would have thought that soap, razors, and energy food bars, things we
take for granted, would be so needed and appreciated by those serving in the military? Supplies
sometimes run low simply because the demand is high and it takes time to replenish needed
items to troops on the move. When advised of this need, the SNAME staff immediately responded
and in a wonderful spirit of good will and support, they assembled a big supply of soap,
band-aides, razors, socks, blistex, suntan lotion, throat lozenges, tooth paste, cookies,
deodorant, power bars, tuna fish, etc., to send to the troops for distribution. It is our
small way of saying “thank you.” Let’s hope they come home soon, and come home safely, so
that more lives will be saved than lost on both sides of the conflict.
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