Commercial shipping carries almost all the goods we use on a day-to-day basis – from your computer to your car (and the fuel it runs on). This programme will give you an entry point to the maritime industry, providing essential knowledge, skills and behaviours that will make you competitive in the most globalised industry there is.

This BEng Hons Degree in Marine Engineering will provide you with the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed for a career at sea in commercial shipping. Approved by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the Merchant Navy Training Board (MNTB), this three-year programme combines academic education with vocational training and 8 months’ industrial placement on board ships, leading to the award of Engineer Officer of the Watch (OOW) Certificate of Competency (CoC). The CoC is the certificate you need to to to sea and, as its name suggests, proves your competency for the role.This programme is aligned to support your progression through knowledge acquisition at operational level and onto managerial level, as directed by the Standard of Training, Certification and Watch keeping (STCW) 1978. This programme integrates academic and work-based learning through close collaboration between employers and Blackpool and The Fylde College.

You will cover topics such as STCW basic training and workshop training skills, alongside courses in first aid, firefighting, high voltage scenarios, and rescue boat experience. The programme is delivered across three years and broken down into five phases: 1,3 and 5 will be delivered on campus, whilst phases 2 and 4 will be spent at sea, applying what you have learned in college in the real world.By the end of the sea phase window, students wishing to achieve a Certificate of Competency should have had the opportunity to complete the MCA sea time requirement of 8 months. This will be provided by sponsorship of a shipping company. however, other maritime related industries may meet therequirements of the programme.To enhance the industry links, you will be offered free student membership through the Institute of Marine Engineers, Science and Technology (IMarEST) which will be promoted during induction with guidance to how this membership can be used to enhance the programme in specific areas.Further information can be found on the FNC website at https://fleetwoodnautical.blackpool.ac.uk/course/mh1he95