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e mission of panel EC-3 is to research and identify the range of problems of ship- board oily waste water and bilge water management systems by working in partner- ship with responsible agencies, companies, and organizations to develop workable and technically grounded solutions. EC-3 has been project focused based on the expertise and interest of its members. e rst project was a comprehensive study of contaminants in bilge water that impede the operation of an OWS and frustrate crews and ship owners and operators. T&R bulletin 6-1, Guide to Diagnosing Contaminants in Oily Bilgewater: Operation and Maintenance of Bilgewater Treatment Systems was published in 2009 and later adopted by the IMO as IMO MEPC Circular 677. EC-3 partnered with ASTM to revise and expand the ASTM OWS procurement Standard Specification for Shipboard Oil Pollution Abatement System. e draft was completed in April 2011 and is currently under review by ASTM for adoption. Two other projects are in the pipeline: A T&R bulletin that will provide guidance for the development of a shipboard oily waste management plan, and a technical paper on criteria for selecting an OWS based on the physical chemistry of onboard bilge water. Haluk Alper, of MYCELX, and Bruce Russell are co-chairs. EC-7: Environmental Management The concept of a design spiral or wheel has been around for many years. e spi- ral pays deference to the designers need to balance many factors. In the original ver- sion of the spiral the designer balanced physical characteristics against mission and costs. The great recent changes in engineering are the realization that the original design wheel was incomplete. For generations, the wheel did not have human factors, environmental, or sustainability steps, and therefore was never optimized for those steps. Ship operators also have to balance all of these considerations, not only in day-to-day management but also in response to changing regulations and customer demands. Panel EC-7 is a natural outow of earlier SNAME environmental engineering com- mittees work and has shown that there is a larger need for higher awareness of all mari- time environmental management eorts. e initial mission of the panel will be to collect and distribute information about environmental management within the marine industry and to connect NAME students SNAME members with the wider sustainability and environmental manage- ment issues within the maritime industries. October 2011 www.sname.org/sname/mt SOHRE