VOCATIONAL MARINE ENGINEERING COURSE DESCRIPTION
Prerequisites: Nil
To provide the learner with the knowledge and skills required for
calculating fuel consumption and storage requirements on vessels and solving
basic engineering problems.
ME 181 Applied Marine Engineering
Prerequisites: ESS/BSS/WKR or EK Class 6
To provide the necessary knowledge, but mostly skills to the
students to be able to operate the propulsion plant of not over 500 kW, as well
as the auxiliary engines and deck machineries of a ship. The skills would
include operation of refrigeration units, milling with precision parts for
engines and machineries, electrical works as well as repairs, maintenance and
operation of outboard motors, valves and pumping arrangements. This course is
in line with the requirements of the International Convention on the Standard
of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for
Seafarers, 1978, as amended in 1995 (STCW Convention).
ME 221 Applied Mechanics I
Prerequisites: ME 179 Practical Mathematics
This course will provide the student with the knowledge and skills
required to explain and calculate the basic effects of forces and displacements
on machinery and structural components.
ME 222 Heat and Heat Engines
Prerequisites: ME
179 Practical Mathematics
This course provides the student with the knowledge and skills
required to explain elementary thermodynamic concepts, solve simple
thermodynamic problems and identify the thermodynamic principles upon which a
vessel's engine operates.
ME 223 Engineering Drawing
Prerequisites: ME 179 Practical
Mathematics
This course introduces the student to engineering drawing concepts
and provides the knowledge and skills to interpret and produce basic
engineering drawings relevant to the safe operation of vessels.
ME 224 Electro Technology
Prerequisites: ME 179 Practical Mathematics, ME 180 Engineering Knowledge
This course will provide the student with the knowledge and skills
required to safely operate and maintain electrical equipment on board a vessel
not exceeding 750 kW propulsion power.
ME 225 Naval Architecture and Ship Construction
Prerequisites: ME 179 Practical Mathematics
This course will provide the student with the knowledge and skills
required to recognize common terminology; identify basic stability requirements
on small vessels; calculate fuel consumption and storage requirements on
vessels; and operate, maintain, and repair components of the ship structure.
ME 226 Engineering Knowledge - General
Prerequisites: ME 180 Engineering Knowledge II
This course provides the student with the knowledge and skills
required to safely operate and maintain the auxiliary equipment on a vessel not
exceeding 750 kW propulsion power.
ME 227
Engineering Knowledge - Motor
Prerequisites: ME 180 Engineering Knowledge II
To provide the learner with the knowledge and skills to
safely operate and maintain a propulsion plant and other related equipment and
systems on a vessel not exceeding 750 kW propulsion power.
ME 228 Applied Mechanics
II
Prerequisites: ME
221 Applied Mechanics I
This course will provide the student with the knowledge
and skills required to explain and calculate the basic affects of force,
pressure, displacement, thermal expansion and friction on machinery and
structural components.
ME 229 Heat and Heat
Engines II
Prerequisites: ME 222 Heat and
Heat Engines I
This course will provide the student with the knowledge
and skills required to explain the basic thermodynamic concepts; solve
thermodynamic problems of basic marine systems; use steam tables to solve
thermodynamic problems; apply thermodynamic principles to components and
systems of a typical marine power plant and solve heat transfer and insulation
problems in marine systems.
ME 230 Engineering
Drawing II
Prerequisites: ME
223 Engineering Drawing I
This course will provide the student with the knowledge
and skills to interpret and produce engineering drawings relevant to the safe
operation of vessels.
ME 231 Electro
Technology II
Prerequisites: ME
224 Electro Technology I
This course will provide the student with the knowledge
and skills required to safely operate, maintain, and manage electrical
equipment on vessels.
ME 232 Naval
Architecture & Ship Construction II
Prerequisites: ME 225 Naval Architecture and Construction I
This course will provide the student with the knowledge
and skills required to explain the basic principles involved in vessel form
definition, the calculation of the loading on structures due to liquid depths,
carry out basic stability calculations and assess the stability of the vessel,
calculate the basic ship resistance and propulsion requirements and manage
structural related requirements to maintain seaworthiness of a vessel.
ME 233
Engineering Knowledge - General II
Prerequisites: ME
226 Engineering Knowledge - General, ME 227 Engineering Knowledge - Motor.
This course will provide the student with the knowledge
and skills required to safely operate, maintain and manage the auxiliary
equipment on a vessel not exceeding 750 kW propulsion power.
ME 234 Engineering Knowledge - Motor II
Prerequisites: ME
226 Engineering Knowledge - General, ME 227 Engineering
Knowledge - Motor.
This course will provide the student with the knowledge
and skills required to safely operate, maintain, and manage a propulsion plant
and other related equipment and systems on a vessel not exceeding 750 kW
propulsion power.