Maritime Operation / Maritime Operation

Department of Technology and Innovation, Odense
Teaching activity id: MT-MOP1-U1.
Teaching language: English.ECTS / weighting: 10 ECTS / 0.167 full-time equivalent.
Period: Autumn 2015.Approved: 18-03-15.
Offered in: Odense.
Subject director:
Associate Professor Dorte Smedegaard Schmidt, Institut for Teknologi og Innovation.

Prerequisites:
None.


Content - Key areas:
Shipping
  • World economy, international trade and maritime transport
  • Shipping market demand, supply, freight rate and cycle
  • Four shipping markets and market players
  • Tramp and liner shipping
  • Regulation of the maritime industry

Accidents, safety and human factors
  • Accident prevention models
  • Safety culture, safety at work
  • Human factors affecting ship and offshore operations

Academic writing - Report and presentation techniques


Learning outcomes:

Knowledge
  • About organisations, classification and legislation within the maritime industry
  • About world trade, maritime transport and transport economy
  • About economical, human factors and safety issues with regard to maritime settings such as ships and offshore platforms
  • About the basic concepts of safety, safety culture, accident prevention and human factors
  • About scientific based writing – report and presentation techniques

Skills
  • Combining technical operational knowledge, safety, human factors and economy in a maritime context
  • Selecting and applying scientific methods within the maritime field
  • Understanding the linkage between world economy and maritime transport and fundamentals of maritime economics
  • Understanding the complexity of accident prevention, safety improvements and human factors in a maritime context
  • Writing scientific based reports and preparing presentation for decision support within the maritime context

Competences
  • The ability of working with complex problems where safety issues, technical operational knowledge, economical, and human factors interact
  • The ability to understand, identify and reflect on problems where safety issues, technical operational knowledge, economical, and human factors interact
  • The ability to present individual ideas and solutions


Time of classes:
Autumn, 1. Semester.

Lessons:
96 lessons.


Form of instruction:
Lectures, exercises, industrial visits, cases and project work.


Examination conditions:
Following is a prerequisite to register for the exam:
  • Submission of project report
  • Assignments collected within a portfolio
The project and the assignments collected within in the portfolio must be handed in on time and in accordance with the requirements specified at the start of the semester.

Evaluation
External oral examination assessed according to the 7-point grading scale based on an overall assessment of:
  • The project report
  • The individual portfolio
  • An oral examination.

Comments:
The course is given in a cross-faculty and institute collaboration:
  • Faculty of Engineering, Department of Technology and Innovation
  • Faculty of Health Science, Centre of Maritime Health and Society


Programmes:
Master of Science (MSc) in Maritime Technology
1. semester, mandatory. Offered in: Odense