Introduction

In February 2007, a decision was made by the group to take up the project, titled ‘Development of Learning Organizers to Improve Simulation-based Training' for our final year project.
The project was under supervision of Mr. Kalyan Chatterjea, a lecturer at the Singapore Maritime Academy.

The main objective of it was the implementation of computer based learning in the academy. World wide, the training programs and courses specializing in this industry is still embraced in the traditional way of textbooks and monotonous lectures. The former, however, would allow the students to actively participate in the class, making learning more interactive and understandable.

This project would involve entirely on the Diesel to steam engineers conversion course. Basically, participants will be exposed to the operations of an LNG ship, of which they would be taught its operations from a ‘Dead Ship’ to ‘Full Operational Mode’. As most engineers are diesel trained, this course would allow them to have a hand on steam operated LNG tankers thus certifying them as steam trained engineers.

The 1^st implementation of this learning method was being done on the diesel to steam engineers conversion course. The project supervisor did this initial test last year and the feedbacks received were promising. Thus our work now would be further improving the current system for the use of the next cohort. This is done in collaboration with Professor Takeshi Nakazawa from the World Maritime University.

The span of the project is estimated to be 8 months. Of which, 1 month would be spent in the World Maritime University for trials by top professors in the field. Advices and recommendations would thus be provided so that we could improve it. The final project would be presented in the Maritime Conference in Philippines early next year.