P I H S N R E T N I Y N E A P M M M A R CO G O PR Connecting theory and practice The workshop training school ensures a solid theoretical foundation for the students to be able to make a difference in the companies Students with a diploma from a Danish gymnasium (which corresponds to high school in the US and upper secondary school in the UK) have to complete nine months of training school and nine months of work experience in order to qualify for the theoretical part of the Bachelor of Technology Management and Marine Engineering. At the workshop training school the students have completed courses in materials science and plan reading, electrical installation and fault detection, diesel engines, safety, protective gear as well as project work. The students are thus able to undertake a variety of technical tasks from day one in the company. The purpose of the company internship programme is that the students are to further develop their craftsmanlike skills. Companies are not required to pay the students as they receive their State education grant for the entire duration of the work experience. A maritime career is launched Having completed a combined course of workshop and work experience Thilde Hedegaard signed on the oil tanker the Nord Swan in Tangier, Morocco. Subsequently she had her first experience of life at sea for three months. As she was a newcomer to the field and has very little maritime experience, Thilde has a variety of tasks on board with the 1st assistant engineer. She checks for leakages, samples oil and performs different security checks. Moreover, she has focused quite a lot on centrifuges and auxiliary engines. These challenges have provided her with a great insight into the variety of tasks facing a marine engineer at such an early stage in her education. “I cannot imagine a better job than being on a ship. It is a miniature society in which everything has to work. As marine engineers we get to work with every aspect of what we learn in school. Obviously, the engines have to work, but electricity must be generated for the entire ship as well. We are the ones responsible for fixing it if we suddenly run out of clean drinking water or if the refrigerator stops working. We have to be able to do it all,” Thilde states in order to explain her fascination of life as a marine engineer within the maritime industry. As a trainee at a shipping company Thilde is paid throughout the entire period at sea. Furthermore, she has signed a contract as a trainee officer with the shipping company Norden. She expects to return to Norden during her ninth semester when it is time for her bachelor internship. A work experience which led to an open invitation He is 22 years old and he has only just started his education. Nonetheless, marine engineering student Thomas Skov has already received an offer to spend his bachelor internship at the manufacturing company LOGSTOR. This is especially due to the results achieved during his work experience where he had to analyse deviations in raw material usage. Thomas Skov would then provide the company with a suggested solution of how to reduce the largest discrepancies. Following the analysis and a presentation of the results it was decided that he was to implement one of the proposed solutions himself. ” l at the ing schoo in a tr e th hed ducing s just finis eady pro a lr h a , s is ri e la h lK e job of a e the less ee, Mikke ally be th ege. Non ll Our train rm o o c n g n ld u ri wo ctical nginee ths of pra op which n h s o marine e e m in n h e c v the ma tly with a mere se objects in ependen is is after d h in T s t. rk is o in w ach y basis he designer. skilled m n everyda industrial a orfitz, d n le O il . k s g Carsten C by a trainin d e rm o rf ymes. ally pe er, Novoz g a tasks usu n a m e nc Maintena ”
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