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40 Years of Experience in Educating Marine Engineers in Dubrovnik, Croatia

This paper reviews higher education of the seafarers in Dubrovnik during the period from 1959 till 1999. A short historic analysis of marine educational development is presented till the year 1959. Specifics of seafarer education in the Republic of Croatia are specially pointed out because of Croatian typical industrial, transport and academic orientation to the sea. All graduate programs are in compliance with standards proposed by the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) and additionally extended with other courses from the field of marine transportation. With such programs graduated students get knowledge and skills for sea oriented jobs and obtain their Associate in Science or Bachelor of Science degree. Actual departments for education of seafarers at the Polytechnic of Dubrovnik are: Department of Nautical, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing. All programs are constantly improving and adopting new technologies and relevant STCW proposals. Review of actual programs compared with STCW requirements is presented in the paper.

marine engineer; Dubrovnik; STCW convention

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