New Classroom

Today, we had moved in to our new classroom officially in the new building. It is located on the 2nd floor. Marine Engineering Classroom 6 is officially DIP 1 MRE 'B's home room.

Our first lesson in the new classroom 

Maths with Miss Alice

The environment of the classroom

Here is the outside view from MRE Classroom 6

Welding Workshop

Practicing Running Bed Welding

Tuesday, 11th September 2012. We had Welding Workshop in the afternoon. Our instructor, Cikgu Hj Kula demonstrated on how to weld 'running bed' on a work piece.

How to weld a 'running bed' on a work piece?

By using a welding torch, the flame produced is from two different types of gas which are acetylene gas & oxygen gas. First, you turn on and let out a little bit of the acetylene gas. Put the torch near the back of your hand to feel if there is gas coming out from the nozzle. To light the flame, use the spark gun to ignite the flame. Then, open the oxygen so that we get a neutral flame for multipurpose welding.

To weld a running bed on a workpiece, first melt the metal from the right edge of the workpiece. Since we are starting from the right, we are doing a leftward direction. As soon as the metal starts to melt, move the torch in a steady speed and towards the left. You can either use a circular motion or just weld the molten metal to the left. Make sure the width of the running bed is approximately equal all the way. Repeat the steps and practice it for three times. There would be three lines of running bed altogether.

Here are shots of my colleagues doing their practical work

This is a friend of mine wearing his (Personal Protective Equipment) PPE

Safety first before doing work

Lastly, this is the result of my running bed welded workpiece

Blogger

Wednesday, 5th September 2012. Last week, for our IT subject, we were asked to do a presentation about our own blogs, individually. The blog we made is an on going assessment until April 2013. We used blogger to make our blogs because it is popular, easy to use and it is also free. Here is my blog presentation.

 

My Blog from Zana_Shim77

Moving In To The New Marine Building

Yesterday, we were informed that we were officially moving in to the new Marine Building. Our instructor's asked us to move all the stuffs from their staff to the new place.

Our Instructors busy packing their things.

Moving In & Organizing things

Students from Elect Department just moved in

By the end of the day

MARINE ENGINEERING

What Is Marine Engineering?

Generally, Marine Engineering refers to engineering involving boats, ships, oil rigs and any other marine vessel. It can also refer to: 

• The engineering of vessel's propulsion systems (Marine Propulsion)

• The engineering of structures to support vessels (Marine Architecture)

Marine Engineering incorporates a broad range of skills and knowledge. It is the branch of study that deals with the design, development, production and maintenance of the equipment used at sea and on board sea vessels. Basically, it is quite a vast field and it has many sister arenas such as naval architecture and nautical science.

A Marine engineer is a professional who is responsible for the operation, maintenance and repair of all major mechanical and engineered equipment on board a ship. There are many mechanical systems that help in the operations of any vessel like the propulsion mechanics, electricity, and power generation system, lubrication, fuel systems, water distillation, lighting and air-conditioning system etc. These are all included in the technical responsibilities of a Marine engineer.

Marine Engineering Course In MKJB

The Marine Department is well equipped with training facilities. The course also benefits from the facilities available at other relevant Departments where students also learn Electrical wiring, Welding and using Lathe machine.

Marine Engineering is quite a difficult course compared to the other courses. But it is also a versatile course. In other words, learning this course doesn't mean we have to be a Marine Engineer in the future. We can go to other Engineering fields or join the Royal Brunei Navy. In this course, we also learn the basics of  what most students in other courses have learned. During Pre-National Diploma (PND), we learned the basic engineering subjects such as Manufacturing Technology, Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning Technology, Welding & Fabrication Technology, Electrical Technology, Practical Computing, Mechanical Science, Maths and Language & Communication. There is no more Pre-National Diploma available starting this year.

Now that we have entered Diploma level, we have started to learn Marine subjects. We study Naval Architecture, General Engineering Knowledge (GEK) and Industrial Gas Turbine (IGT). 

In the past, our course rarely accepted female students. So previously, there were only a few girls accepted. From what I can see now, this year the syllabus has changed and been upgraded. There are many girls in the new intake.

The Marine Department in MKJB is proud to say that it now has its own building but we cannot occupy it yet.

For more information about Marine Engineering, go to this website http://www.marineengineering.webs.com/