This past year has brought many changes to Transactions. In an effort to include more relevant and valuable content to members, Transactions will provide a compilation of select papers presented before the Society during the calendar year and the Society's award-winning papers for that year.
The contents are divided into the following major sections:
- Archival Papers of exceptional quality, primarily drawn from the Society's Annual Meeting papers, which include written discussions and authors closures
- SNAME major award and prize winning papers
- Graduate and Undergraduate student award winning papers
- Significant Papers of such high quality and intrinsic value as to warrant capturing them in the Transactions.
The volume also includes a summary of the Society's business as reported at the Annual Meeting.
This change to the selection process has delayed the publication of the 2010 Transactions, but allows SNAME to deliver more papers to our members which will continue in the years to follow.