With the end
of 2005 fast approaching and the holidays nearly upon us, it is timely and fitting
that we offer our sincerest wishes to our staff and all Society members and
their families for a safe, happy and peaceful holiday season, filled with anticipation
for a healthy and rewarding New Year.
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~ 2006 Dues ~
Early Renewal Deadline December 15th!
Renew
your SNAME membership on-line on the SNAME Website. Renew by December
15, 2005 and you will be eligible to enter entered in a drawing to win
a digital camera!
To
renew on line:
- Go
to the SNAME website at www.sname.org
and click on "Annual Dues Renewal, or
click here.
- Enter
your username and password
- Your
personalized dues bill will be on the screen!
- Be
sure we have your correct e-mail address and other contact information
(a link to SNAME's Privacy Policy is provided on the form)
- Besides
paying your dues, you have the following options:
- Order
a publication or add a journal subscription
- Make
a scholarship or other contribution
- Sign
up for the Professional Referral Program
- Check
out your SNAME benefits by clicking on “making the most of your
SNAME membership”
- Sign
up to be a mentor and/or learn about the PE Exam
6.
Pay by Credit Card (this is an encrypted secure site)
7. Click the "submit" button to submit your renewal
We
value your membership! If you have questions, suggestions or great ideas,
please contact us at info@sname.org.
PS. This is the 6th consecutive year we
have been able to avoid increasing your dues. Thank you for the investment
in your profession.
SNAME,
delivering excellence since 1893. |
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National Engineers Week
Engineers Week, a formal
coalition of more than 70 engineering, education, and cultural societies,
and more than 50 corporations and government agencies, is dedicated to raising
public awareness of engineers’ positive contributions to our quality
of life. Engineers Week promotes recognition among parents, teachers and students
of the importance of a technical education and a high level of math, science,
and technology literacy, and motivates youths to pursue engineering careers
in order to provide a diverse, vigorous and informed engineering workforce.
Each year Engineers Week reaches thousands of schools, businesses, and community
groups across the United States. Engineers Week programs and materials are
accessible to those outside the U.S. as well. Engineers Week 2006 is co-chaired
by the Society of Women Engineers and Northrop Grumman
Corporation.
SNAME, with members throughout
the country and the world, can make an important contribution to Engineers
Week by getting involved. SNAME Members can provide an important contribution
to this effort just by lending their expertise to their local communities.
Just add your name to the national Engineering Contacts list, maintained by
the Engineering Week nonprofit organization.
By adding your name to
the Engineering Contacts list, you are making engineering and your expertise
available to your community. Your participation will help uncloak the "stealth
profession" and could inspire hundreds of people in your community to
learn more about engineering and the impact it has on their daily lives. You
should expect to receive calls from other engineers looking to broaden the
reach of their planned events, as well as calls from teachers looking for
volunteers to come into classrooms, and everything in between.
Click
here to add your name to the Engineering Contacts list, and help promote
your profession to your community. If you would like more information about
National Engineers Week, visit www.eweek.org.
Excerpts
of material retrieved from www.eweek.org 12/06/05.
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Herreshoff Marine Museum Visit
On December 1,
2005, Executive Director, Phil Kimball, visited the Herreshoff Marine Museum
and the America’s Cup Hall of Fame in Bristol, RI, to meet with representatives
of the New England Section and the Hereshoff Marine Museum about SNAME’s
sponsorship of the Classic Yacht Symposium (CYS), and the plan to hold this
conference on alternate years with the Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium
(CSYS) starting with a CYS in March 2006.
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Standing
left to right are Matt Unger, President, SNAME Student Steering Committee;
Phil Kimball; Adam F. Langerman, Associate Director, Herreshoff Marine
Museum; E.Dexter Hoag, Chairman, New England Section; Jan Davison, Chairman,
CYS Committee and Halsey C. Herreshoff, President, Herreshoff Marine
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WMTC
2006
Special Rate for SNAME Members!
Attention
SNAME Members considering registering for the World
Maritime Technology Conference, WMTC 2006, hosted by IMarEST
in London, March 6-10.
As an
added benefit for members, because of the reciprocal agreement in place between
SNAME and IMarEST, SNAME members only will be extended the
special "member rate" for registration. Visit www.wmtc2006.com
to register, or to obtain more information.
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Book Reviewer Needed
Excellent Holiday Reading
Just in
time for the holidays, we have the 1050-page Handbook on Plastic Analysis
in Engineering by Leonid Belenkiy for review for a future issue of
Marine Technology. Click
here for a copy of the table of contents, publisher's abstract, preface,
forward, and introduction. We are seeking a member or associate who might like
to read the book and prepare a review. Marine Technology reviews are
about 750 words long, published over the reviewer's name, and we ask only that
the review arrives at SNAME headqurters electronically with correct spelling
and grammar in timely fashion. If received by 15 February the review can be
published in the April issue of Marine Technology, or if received by
15 May, in the July issue. We do ask that the book be returned for the HQ library.
If you would like to take this on please contact arowen@sname.org.
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Need a
holiday gift idea for someone special? Have a student who needs a reference
book for next semester? SNAME has just the solution for your gift-giving dilemmas.
Click here to
browse SNAME's selection of reference books, maritime-themed books, and SNAME
accessories.
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Attention
all SNAME Student Members
and Student Advocates!
The
Student Steering Committee (SSC) has just completed its
report on the Student Summit, held this past October at the 2005 SMITC&E
in Houston. Like the Student Summit, this report is the first of its kind!
It summarizes the comments and suggestions offered by students during
the Summit, and will serve as a guideline for the SSC and all of SNAME
in improving Student Member benefits. The SSC welcomes your comments and
feedback (email Matthew Unger, SSC Chairman, at munger@mit.edu).
CLICK
HERE FOR THE STUDENT SUMMIT REPORT
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ASNE Events
ShipTech
2006
Advanced Technologies to Meet Shipbuilding Capability
and Affordability Needs
Panama City Beach, AL
January 24-25, 2006
Read
more ...
Joint
Sea Basing Symposium 2006
Arlington, Virginia
March 23-24, 2006
CALL
FOR PAPERS
Engineering
the Total Ship (ETS) 2006
Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, VA
May 1-3, 2006
CALL
FOR PAPERS
Ninth
International Marine Design Conference
Advancing Marine Design — Naval, Commercial, Inland/Great Lakes and Offshore
Ann Arbor, Michigan
May 16-19, 2006
CALL
FOR PAPERS
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Red Cross Thanks OTC
The Offshore Technology Conference donated $100,000 to the American
Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina relief.
Click here
to view the letter.
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Dell Wish List 2005
Dell Computer has a special holiday offer for SNAME members. Click
here to view.
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Upcoming
Events
(Click on logos for details)
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2006
SNAME Maritime Technology Conference & Expo and Ship Production
Symposium
October 10-13, 2006
Fort Lauderdale, FL |
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Marine
Environmental Engineering Technical Symposium (MEETS)
1/23/06 - 1/24/06
Arlington,VA |
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Pacific
2006 - International Maritime Conference
1/31/06 - 2/02/06
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre
Sydney,Australia |
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World
Maritime Technology Conference 2006
3/06/06 - 3/10/06
London,England (see article in this issue about special "member rate"
for SNAME members)
Including
ICMES (10th International Cooperation on Marine Engineering
Systems). Click
here for details. |
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International
Marine Design Conference
5/16/06 - 5/19/06
Ann Arbor, MI |
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ICETECH
2006 - Int'l Conference & Exhibition on Performance of Ships & Structures
in Ice
7/16/06 - 7/19/06
Banff, Alberta, CANADA |
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Propellers/Shafting
Symposium
9/12/06 - 9/13/06
Virginia Beach,VA |
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ICSOT
2006
9/14/06 - 9/15/06
Busan, Korea |
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9th
International Conference on Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles (STAB)
9/25/06 - 9/29/06
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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We sincerely
thank all of our SNAMeNewsLetter
readers for your support and valuable input throughout the year.
I would like
to personally thank the HQ Staffers who enthusiastically contribute articles,
links, and ideas to each issue. I look forward to 24 exciting issues of our
eNewsLetter in 2006 !
Connie Cali-Poutré,
Manager, SNAME Website
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