Posted:
November 12, 2014
AMO members encouraged to direct eligible candidates toward rewarding careers as marine engineers
Applications for the fourth session of The Engineering Candidate Hawsepipe (TECH) Program are being accepted. The application period will close April 6, 2015 and the next class is scheduled to commence in August 2015.
Information on the application process is available on the STAR Center website.
The third session of the TECH Program has been enrolled and is scheduled to commence in early 2015.
The TECH program is designed to take qualified and motivated high school graduates from unlicensed apprentice to third assistant engineer, motor, with an STCW endorsement, through approximately 30 months of classroom, laboratory and shipboard training.
American Maritime Officers, working collaboratively with the Seafarers International Union and the training divisions of the benefit plans of both unions, developed the TECH Program, which provides an accelerated pathway for entry-level mariners to advance to original third assistant engineers.
STAR Center, a division of the AMO Safety & Education Plan, is working with the Harry Lundberg School of Seamanship's Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education in Piney Point, Md. in the training and assessment of TECH Program candidates.
Costs to candidates are minimal, and cover medical exams, required credentials, passports, uniforms and other incidental expenses. There are no tuition or room-and-board fees. After an applying candidate has been selected, all transportation costs incurred during the program are covered, provided the candidate agrees to complete the program and sail as a licensed engineer and member of AMO upon completion.
More information about the program is available on the STAR Center website.
Applications being accepted for TECH Program's fourth session
AMO members encouraged to direct eligible candidates toward rewarding careers as marine engineers
Applications for the fourth session of The Engineering Candidate Hawsepipe (TECH) Program are being accepted. The application period will close April 6, 2015 and the next class is scheduled to commence in August 2015.
Information on the application process is available on the STAR Center website.
The third session of the TECH Program has been enrolled and is scheduled to commence in early 2015.
The TECH program is designed to take qualified and motivated high school graduates from unlicensed apprentice to third assistant engineer, motor, with an STCW endorsement, through approximately 30 months of classroom, laboratory and shipboard training.
American Maritime Officers, working collaboratively with the Seafarers International Union and the training divisions of the benefit plans of both unions, developed the TECH Program, which provides an accelerated pathway for entry-level mariners to advance to original third assistant engineers.
STAR Center, a division of the AMO Safety & Education Plan, is working with the Harry Lundberg School of Seamanship's Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education in Piney Point, Md. in the training and assessment of TECH Program candidates.
Costs to candidates are minimal, and cover medical exams, required credentials, passports, uniforms and other incidental expenses. There are no tuition or room-and-board fees. After an applying candidate has been selected, all transportation costs incurred during the program are covered, provided the candidate agrees to complete the program and sail as a licensed engineer and member of AMO upon completion.
More information about the program is available on the STAR Center website.