expense we can't elide the large difference in wages of sailors. So
Japanese sailor costs shipowner approximately 7 times as much than south-east countries
one. No doubt, it is connected with the level of maintenance and accident risk. Here there
is the relevant problem of unification of MET and vocational requirements.
Conclusion
The unification of driving energy for all board devices is one of the
perspective problem bearing a relation to both board power equipment and MET(E).
The question whether is the expediency to electrify a screw drive is
age-old: advantages and disadvantages are like explored and well known. Nevertheless we
need to revert to the subject again and now on the basis of both theoretical estimates and
new experience of shipbuilding and shipping, for example, re-equipment of passenger-liner
"Queen Elisabeth II", maintenance of Arctic ice-breakers and oth's. In the paper
the problem is considered itself as well as in aspect of advisability of greater or lesser
correction of MET(E) curricula.
The matter is that a marine college graduate as junior ship engineer
deal with ancillary systems and devices, as a rule, highly electrified. There is the
probability of extension of electrification on board of ships.
It makes the augment of electrical courses in MET(E) curricula
indispensable. This consideration is appropriate and well-timed in the connection with
another more common (at least for shipowners) idea of ship manning cutting down.
Automation drives this process, and electrical systems are automatized plainer than
otherwise. In our Maritime Academies in Russia we meet the phenomenon when graduates of
Electro-Engineering Faculty after some years of marine practice return to academy as
external students of Engineering Faculty.
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