2012 Ship Production Symposium Issues Call for Papers

Press Release

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Ship Production Symposium, in conjunction with SNAME’s 2012 Annual Meeting, has released a “Call for Papers.” The SNAME 2012 Annual Meeting/Ship Production Symposium will be held October 24‐26 in Providence, RI.
Interest areas include ship design processes and technologies; material advancements and technologies; surface preparation and coatings; electrical technologies; planning and production processes; welding advancements and technologies; business processes; information systems; environmental technologies; risk management; human capital and workforce development; and facilities processes.
Abstracts are due by June 1 and should be submitted to SPSpapers@sname.org. For additional information, visit the SNAME website: http://www.sname.org/events/callforpapers.

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