California State University: Maritime Academy SNAME Student Section

Just toured Blue Origin!! On our way to the SMC student social.

The SNAME Maritime Convention in Providence, Rhode Island, is a wrap!

Admiral Charles Ray, Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, with our Vice-Chair, Jessica Suarez.

What happens after graduation? One of our former club Chairs, Taylor Deschene, graduated in 2017 as a Mechanical Engineer along with his US Coast Guard's 3rd Engineer license. Right after graduation, he started work with ACCO Engineered Systems, the #1 mechanical contractor at the West Coast Taylor is a design engineer on HVAC systems, and is responsible for examining a space/facility, calculating the thermal load(s), the conditioning needs, and then pathing the conditioning ...and scoping the equipment to support the system. It can be complex, and there are state and federal regulations to follow, as well as the city inspectors to satisfy, so Taylor carries a lot of responsibility. Recent projects have been at Facebook and Salesforce--see Taylor on the top of the new Salesforce Tower in the attached images. Taylor, along with fellow CMA grad, Sean Abbott, will be coming to campus to represent ACCO at the career fair on October 23rd. Are you a senior? Talk to them about job opportunities! Below senior status? Talk to them about internships or career advice. There is a lot of life after graduation!

What happens after graduation? Our Outreach Officer, Emily Shimada, graduated this year, and is in the middle of a six-month internship with MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education), as a research technician on various ships in the UNOLS (University National Oceanographic Laboratory System) fleet. Follow her adventures at the MATE Internship Blog, https://www.marinetech.org/internship-blog/, and if you have an interest in marine science and oceanography yourself, think about applying for an internship! Read more at: https://www.marinetech.org/internships/

Last week we held our first MATE Regional ROV Competition, for SCOUT class ROV teams. It was a lot of fun, and a great opportunity for several generations of engineers, mariners, and scientists to work together. Now is a great time to start planning to participate in the next event, in 2019, so drop us a line if your school would like to bring a team to this friendly competition!

Don't miss out on our next Off-Campus Professional Dinner and Meeting on March 14th at the UC Berkeley campus, at the Faculty Club, in Berkeley, CA and running from 1800-2100. Quichen Liu, Ph.D Student at UC Berkeley, who will be delivering a presentation "Large Scale Direct Numerical Simulations of Rogue Waves and Their Statistical Properties." This is the SNAME Student Paper night for 2018, and a great opportunity to not only network with local engineering professionals, but also to meet our fellow engineering students at a sister SNAME campus! Feel free to contact [email protected] for more info or to RSVP to save your spot!

Tomorrow is our next CMA SNAME club meeting at 1000 in Classroom 103 and if you are interested in becoming an officer, please email [email protected] ASAP!!! We'll talk a bit about our recent trip to the Underwater Intervention conference in New Orleans and upcoming events, but a highlight of the day will be our elections of new club officers! Note that you do not need to be present at the meeting if you have a conflict, but you do need to let Martin know that you want to be considered, and for which position.

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the CMA SNAME and NorCal SNAME Meet & Greet!