This Electro-Technical Rating (ETR) course covers the mandatory
competences and the required knowledge, understanding, and proficiency prescribed
in Section A-III/7 of the STCW Code.
This course consists of two hundred forty-eight (248) instructional hours,
including theoretical instruction and practical demonstrations, covering the topics
listed in Part B – Course Outline.
This Electro-Technical Officers (ETO) course covers the mandatory competences and required knowledge, understanding and proficiencies prescribed in Table A-III/6, Section A-III/6 of the STCW Code.
The course requires a total of six hundred twenty-eight (628) hours with additional of sixteen (16) hours for course assessment to cover the subject areas enumerated in Part B - Course Outline covering fifteen (15) modules. The modules shall be taken in sequential manner to ensure a structured design and delivery, which shall follow a progressive approach from the Fundamental Knowledge, Operation and Functionality and Maintenance and Repair aspects in order to achieve the intended learning outcomes listed in Part C – Course Syllabus.
Pursuant to Regulation III/6, paragraph 2.2 of the STCW Convention, 1978, as amended, this course includes twelve (12) months of combined workshop skills training and approved seagoing service. A total of three hundred thirty-six (336) hours out of the 628 total training hours covers the electrical and electronic workshop skills training relevant to the duties of an ETO, as required under section A-III/6 paragraph 1 of the STCW Code. Such duration is considered equivalent to four (4) months of workshop skills training, computed at four (4) training hours per day at twenty (20) training days per month.