The office of the STCW, Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping, ensures that the policies established by the USCG are implemented and followed thru by students in the Marine Engineering and Marine Transportation undergraduate programs. Students in either program must exhibit competence in the areas of medicare first aid, firefighting, survival craft and rescue boats.
The students' records in the areas of the required competencies are tracked and maintained to ensure that the license candidate can qualifiy to test for his/her third assistant engineer (engineering officer) or third mate (deck officer) exam administered by the USCG in first class year (senior year) in order to obtain their license as a merchant marine officer. Documents & Links:
