Magsaysay Training Center Courses

Scope: 
The course is consisting series of exercises structured around the operation of a ship’s machinery installation and carried out in conjunction with an engine-room simulator.  

The course provides essential concepts followed by exercises on the engine room simulator including actual case study on engine room procedures and practices, engine room communications, and factors affecting human performance.

The exercises are supervised by an instructor and will, initially, allow the students to become familiar with the instrumentations and controls used in the engine-rooms of modern merchant ships. The student shall become skilled in the scanning of instruments displays when assessing the normal operational conditions of an engineering plant.

The exercises increase in complexity as the course progresses, as the student works through and becomes familiar with the procedures used for starting an engine-room watch. The final exercises deal with watchkeeping and the procedures and techniques needed for the location and trouble shooting of faults, diagnosis and malfunctions that can occur in an operational plant.

Each exercise should be preceded by briefing session and followed by a group debrief, which will analyze the actions and decisions of the student.
During the series of exercises each students will assume different roles in the engineering watchkeeping team, and shall have more than one opportunity to take on the part of the engineering in charge of the watch.

Entry Standards:
Entry to the course is open to students with basic background and knowledge and to marine engineers who wish to improve their knowledge and understanding of the operation and control of machinery installation of a modern merchant ship.

The student’s watchkeeping experience at sea in the engine-room of a merchant ship will be enhanced and consolidated by the structures activities undertaken in this course.