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Email: asnehq@navalengineers.org

 

ASNE is the leading professional engineering society for engineers, scientists and allied professionals who conceive, design, develop, test, construct, outfit, operate and maintain complex naval and maritime ships, submarines and aircraft and their associated systems and subsystems.  ASNE also serves the educators who train the professionals, researchers who develop related technology, and students who are preparing for the profession.  Society activities provide support for the U.S. Navy; U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Marine Corps; U.S. Merchant Marine and U.S. Army.

ASNE is the seventh oldest technical society in the United States.  It was founded in 1888 by a group of naval engineering pioneers, most of them officers of the U.S. Navy's Engineering Corps, who sought a unified approach to their profession in order to make the most of new advances in technology. The purposes of ASNE are:           

  • to advance the knowledge and practice of naval engineering in public and private applications and operations,
  • to enhance the professionalism and well-being of members, and
  • to promote naval engineering as a career field.

For 125 years, the Society’s objectives have been strengthened and preserved to meet the changing needs of a time-honored profession. Today ASNE conducts a variety of technical meetings and symposia, publishes the highly regarded Naval Engineers Journal and a number of other technical proceedings and publications, and fosters professional development and technical information exchange through technical committees, local section activities and cooperative efforts with government organizations and other professional societies.

The Society's annual meeting, ASNE Day, is typically held in February of each year in the Washington, DC, area. The meeting features major addresses by high level industry and government leaders and panel discussions by leading members of the profession.  It also includes presentation and discussion of technical papers on a variety of timely naval engineering topics, presentation of the Society's prestigious annual awards and a large exposition with government and industry exhibits covering the full spectrum of naval engineering technology. ASNE Day is highlighted by the Society’s annual Honors Gala, attended by hundreds of executives and senior managers from both government and industry.

Our website is designed to not only serve our members, but also to support scholars, students and others interested in the varied field of naval engineering.  We welcome your suggestions on ways we can improve your experience. 

LT Eugene A. Silva, USNR (Ret.)

Award: "Jimmie" Hamilton Award 

 1968 

LT Eugene A. Silva, USNR (Ret.)

 

For the best original paper published in the Naval Engineers Journal during the year 1968 as set forth in the following: 

The basis for this selection was made on the professionalism of the subject matter; depth of treatment; the importance of the contribution with respect to its lasting value to the profession; individual effort which would serve as an incentive and encouragement to future Naval Engineering authors; and finally on the clarity of the composition, style and manner of presentation. 

LT Silva's paper "Welding Processes in the Deep Ocean," which appeared in the August 1968 issue of the Naval Engineers Journal, represents a major contribution to the naval engineering field. It not only fulfills all of the selection criteria but it helps to expand the knowledge of naval engineers in an area which is becoming of increasing importance. This paper makes available in a concentrated yet digestible form a wealth of information on the techniques and problems of joining metals underwater. The history and theory of gas and electric welding and cutting are blended together with a practical understanding of the difficulties involved in the performance of work in the ocean. LT Silva has thoroughly documented his conclusions relative to our current capabilities in this critical area of ocean engineering and has logically developed his recommendations for extending these capabilities to greater oceanic depths. 

LT Silva's achievement in presenting this timely dissertation to the naval engineering profession makes him well qualified to receive the 1968 "Jimmie" Hamilton Award.