This experimental approach can be extended to the students with various academic backgrounds from a number of pilot countries in the future as an IAMU-Working Group I Project, eventually achieving an international curriculum calibration scale suitable for all parties concerned; having of course the same curriculum for the students of the same quality and background.
This will yield in the High Standard Merchant Maritime Universities/Faculties of the world being involved with more concise number of hours of curriculum to grasp the same amount of knowledge in relation with Institutes in line with STCW '95 minimum requirements who might need that many hours (IMO Model Course Hours) to learn the same topic.
Again utilising less hours, more advanced topics can be introduced to quality students compared to a standard student.
Thus, the 35-40 hour/week programs of ITUMF due to the bureaucracy of the Administration tending to keep in line with IMO Model Course tedious hours designed for 14-15 year old boys of more modest academic backgrounds; can be vastly and effectively reduced to create space for "Dual Major" education during the same period of time within the Faculty, and "DUAL FACULTY Program" of Turkish Higher Education which permits one bright student to graduate from two Faculties of ITU during 5-6 years instead of one at four years. (For example, Maritime Faculty and Industrial Engineering Faculty.)
Also under this renewed conditions, with less hours during the week Turkish Higher Education permits the bright student to take all required courses at a shorter time to graduate 1 semester earlier.
This approach also permits the student to be involved in research, final year project more specializing on his field of interest, and graduating under more optimum, efficient conditions.
E. CONCLUSION-
The author recommends that, the outcome/results of his approach to design a mathematical/empirical scala regarding the number of hours of undergraduate programs most efficiently required for students of different academical backgrounds which will be presented as a full paper at the First INAUGURAL CONGRESS of IAMU in Istanbul/Turkey during June/July 2000; should be brought to the attention of IMO-STW subcommittee as a positive approval of which Administrations will widely without hesitation take new liberal measures for each party avoiding very orthodox measures leading to unefficient waste of academical time for some high quality institutes concerned.
