The ISEE Membership Directory and Desk Reference is the most comprehensive who’s who publication in the explosives industry. Now you can make your company shine and target explosives industry leaders by advertising in the Membership Directory Yellow Pages.
Ads start at $125. Reserve yours today. Download an order form here. The deadline to reserve your space is Monday, April 2. For more information, contact Dede Manross at 801.942.5650 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The SEE Education Foundation will be awarding $81,000 in scholarships to students pursuing degrees related to the explosives industry. Each year, the Scholarship Committee reviews and scores applications from students in a wide range of disciplines and make awards ranging from $1,500 to a top award of $7,500 to one well-qualified student. The scholarship acceptance period will run from March 5 to May 4, 2018.
To be eligible for scholarship funding, students must be, or plan to be, pursuing a technical, undergraduate, master’s or doctorate degree in fields of study related to the commercial explosives industries. Students will be assessed on their academic and professional achievements, their goals related to the industry, personal challenges narrative and statement of financial need. The deadline to apply is May 4, 2018.
Visit www.isee.org/students for more information and to download an application.
The SEE Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization created in 1996 to serve the long-term education interests of the explosives industry through the development of education and training materials, championing the inclusion of explosives instruction in engineering curricula and awarding scholarships to eligible students.
Did you get your picture taken at the Emerging Professional Social or Grand Finale Gala photo booths while you were at the conference? All the photo booth pictures are posted on our Flickr page. Check them out, to download yours today.
New for 2018: All ISEE members now have free access to the online research database OneMine. It’s home to more than 124,000 articles, technical papers, books in the explosives, mining, minerals and tunneling industries. Along with ISEE technical papers, members now have free access to papers from SME, NIOSH, AusIMM, CIM, SAIMM, TMS, IMPC, DFI and IIMP.
To access OneMine, ISEE members need to log in to the ISEE website first. Once in the members section, click on Research Papers and Proceedings. From there, members have two options to choose from. ISEE Explosives Reference Database Online contains only ISEE related papers and articles leading up to 2000. OneMine contains ISEE documents from 2001-2017 as well as all the 124,000 documents from other organizations.
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More than 1,700 people from around the world met Jan. 28–31, 2018, in San Antonio, Texas, for the 44th Annual Conference on Explosives & Blasting Technique, the world’s largest conference on explosives engineering.
During the conference, keynote presenter and astronaut Mike Mullane spoke about the space shuttle Challenger disaster and emphasized the importance of safety. The new online SEE Education Foundation auction, which concluded Tuesday, Jan. 30, raised more than $11,000. Big-ticket items included rare vintage Atlas stamping plates, a lifetime ISEE membership and a helicopter tour in Alaska.
The money raised through the auction will go to the Education Foundation ISEE Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships to college students from across the globe who are pursuing a career in the blasting industry.
Accolades
David Siskind, Ph.D., DE Siskind & Associates (DESA), was inducted into the Explosives Industry Hall of Fame. He becomes the second person to be given such honors. Several other industry members who throughout the year have made exceptional contributions to the explosives and drilling fields were also given awards at the conference.
Michael Cechanski, STT-Surfex Technology & Trading, won the Distinguished Service Award; Paul Worsey, Missouri S & T, was honored with the Industry Service Award; Nancy Allen, HTA Enterprises Inc., was awarded the Blaster's Leadership Award; Patrick Garven, Finndrill Inc., was honored with the Driller's Leadership Award; Catherine Johnson, Missouri S & T, was awarded the President's Award; and Ryan Brogden, Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, won Paper of the Year.
Passing of the Gavel
After completing his two-year term, Jack Eloranta handed over the reins and gavel to the new ISEE Board President Jim Daley. The next Annual Conference on Explosives & Blasting Technique will be from Jan. 27 – 30, 2019, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tenn.