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VOLUME 17

July 2016

IMLA24 November 10-14, 2016

Texas A & M University at Galveston,

Galveston Texas, US

IMLA NEWSLETTER

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Preface

To the Reader

News

IMLA-IAMU Working Group Met at WMU

IMLA at 2016 ICMPTE (International Conference on

Maritime Policy, Technology and Education)

Conferences

IMLA24 Call for Papers and Presentations

IMEC28 Second Announcement

INSCL19 Updates

IMLA-IMEC

IMLA-IMEC Steering Committee

A Farewell Letter from Prof. Dr. Peter Trenkner

From the Chair Clive Cole

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Signal Hill at St.John’s

By Mr. Geoff Whit

eway

Editorial

IMLA Secretariat Office

Email: imla@shmtu.edu.cn

Tel: + 86 21 3828 4255

Fax: + 86 21 3828 4166

Add: 1550 Haigang Ave. Shanghai

201306, P.R. China

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Texas A & M University at

Galveston, the host of IMLA24

IMLA Newsletter serves to report

the latest developments of this

Association, IMLA conferences and

events, the consultative activities

with IMO as well as trends of

maritime education and training. It

provides opportunities and

platforms to share important

information and ideas, and promote

the development of marine science,

engineering and technology. We

believe this would be an ideal path

to enhance exchanges and

communication between all

members. It can be reached

through IMLA website www.imla.co

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To the Reader

Dear IMLA Member and Reader,

Later than planned the information of this year’s IMLA conference – IMLA24 was

announced. Unforeseen difficulties in selecting from the candidate institutions had

delayed the announcement. Eventually Texas A&G University at Galveston becomes the

host for IMLA24. The Call for Papers and Presentations was first disseminated in April 2016

among the members and colleagues from MET community, and fortunately the

Organizing Committee there in Texas has received quite a good number of contributions

by the deadline of submission of abstracts. We are looking forward to further practical

information from the host to facilitate participants to register, plan their travel, and finally

make it at the conference in November!

The IMLA-IMEC Steering Committee had seen a big transition at its 27th

Conference in

Malaysia. After 21 years as Chairman of IMEC, Prof. Dr. Peter Trenkner handed over the

steer to Prof. Clive Cole for him to become the 4th

Chairman. It was a warm and

memorable moment. This Newsletter shares the letters with which they each expressed

their feelings and thoughts some time later after the conference. The IMEC Steering

Committee and its Papers & Activities Committee welcomed new members.

The IMLA-IAMU joint project on revision of IMO Model Courses 6.09, 3.12, 1.30 has moved

a step forward. The working group met again at WMU in late May. Three weeks after that,

the initial draft of MC 6.09 was submitted to IMO Revision Group for review through the

IMLA Secretariat Office.

As for the future of IMLA Newsletters, it would be nice to have contributions from some of

our readers. Any topic that is related to Maritime Education and Training is welcomed

including personal views on problems of education in certain area of subject, personal

lecture scripts and other information that you think could be helpful to other lecturers.

Editor of IMLA Newsletter

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NEWS

From 8th to 9th March, IMLA and IAMU

met in Shanghai for their joint

endeavor on the revision of IMO

WMU President Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry met the embers of the working group

Following the last meeting two

months ago in Shanghai, IMLA and

IAMU met again for their joint project

on the revision of IMO Model

Course1.30, 3.12, 6.09, at WMU on May

21st and 22nd, 2016.

IMLA representatives Wang Xian

and Xie Jieying from Shanghai

Maritime University, Yutaka EMI, IAMU

Deputy Executive Director, and Michael

Ekou Manuel, Head of WMU MET

Specialization, attended the workshop.

IMLA-IAMU Working Group

Met at WMU

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The meeting made successful

discussions revolving around the

revision progress, proof-reading and

content consistence after the last

meeting, and reached agreement on

competence-based training and

education, on board assessment,

objective assessment and the

suitability of new education and

training methodologies. Working

schedule prior to the submission date

June 15th, 2016 was hammered out as

well.

WMU President Dr. Cleopatra

Doumbia-Henry met the members of

the working group and expressed her

appreciation for the multi-national

coordination mechanism for the IMO

project. She expected the team to

continue its meticulous effort to

finalize the revision work while

addressing appropriately and timely

the feedback from IMO.

IMLA and IAMU were assigned for

the revision of three IMO Model

Courses at the IMO HTW 2nd Session

in February 2015, which are Model

Course 6.09: Training Course for

Instructors, Model Course

1.30:On-Board Assessment, and Model

Course 3.12: Assessment, Examination

and Certification of Seafarers.

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IMLA at 2016 ICMPTE International Conference on Maritime Policy,

Technology and Education

In order to strengthen the

academic exchange and cooperation in

the international maritime community,

share the latest scientific and

technological innovation and promote

the prosperity of the shipping industry,

Shanghai Maritime University and

Southampton Solent University jointly

hosted the 1st International

Conference on Maritime Policy,

Technology and Education (ICMPTE

2016) in Shanghai, May 26-27, 2016.

Prof. Dr. Jin Yongxing, Chair of

IMLA attended and spoke at the

conference. Attendees include Capt.

Leon Govender, IMLA Chair of IMLA

Papers & Activities and some other 50

specialists and scholars from UK,

Singapore, South Africa and China.

The conference addresses new

opportunities and new challenges to

such maritime clusters as the

progression of seafarers’ career,

protection of marine environment,

enhancement of maritime safety and

security, efficiency of maritime

administration and sustainability of

maritime education and training.

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CONFERENCES

Call for Papers/Presentations

The International Maritime Lecturers Association Conference at TAMUG will

promote discussion and extensive networking among maritime lecturers. As

we prepare the next generation of maritime educators, what are the critical

elements to consider as we look to the way forward? The Conference

Organizing Committee invites you to submit your findings for presentation on

any of the following topics or any topics related to the future of maritime

education:

• Evaluation of Maritime Education and Training

• Distance Education in the Maritime Industry

• Impact of Technology on Maritime Teaching

• Assessment of Maritime Education

• Quality Assurance in Maritime Education

• International Maritime Education Programs

IMLA24 The 24th International Maritime Lecturers Association Conference

“Quality Standards in Maritime Education”

November 10-14, 2016

Texas A & M University at Galveston,

Galveston Texas, US

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If your proposal is accepted for presentation, we encourage you to submit a

full paper for inclusion in the conference material. TAMUG will accept

responsibility for printing and distribution of accepted papers at

the conference. All technology requested to support presentation must be

submitted with abstract. Abstract should be kept to about 250-300 words and

contain the following information:

• Names of presenter(s)

• Position or title of presenter(s)

• Employer or affiliated institution

• Mailing Address

• Telephone/fax numbers

• Email address

• Short biographical statement and resume

Deadline for Abstracts: June 20, 2016

Notice of Acceptance of Abstract: July 1, 2016

Full Paper Due: Sept 1, 2016

Notice of Acceptance of Full Papers: Oct 1, 2016

Abstracts may be submitted electronically via boudreal@tamug.edu or by mail

to:

Lowell Boudreaux

Instructional Assistant Professor

Department of Maritime Administration

Texas A & M University at Galveston

PO Box 1675

200 Seawolf Parkway

Galveston, TX 77553

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About Texas A & M University at Galveston

Celebrating over fifty years, Texas A&M University at Galveston serves as

the “ocean oriented campus” of Texas A&M University. The campus offers a

unique blend of marine and maritime programs, including majors in science,

business, engineering, liberal arts, and transportation.

ACCREDITATION

Texas A&M University is fully accredited by the Southern Association of

Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC). As a branch

campus, Texas A&M University at Galveston is included in that process.

Offshore and Coastal Systems Engineering (OCSE) is accredited by the

Engineering Accreditation Commission and Marine Engineering Technology

(MARR) is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation

Commission, both of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

ACADEMICS

TAMUG offers ocean-oriented, four-year courses with excellence in

business, oceanographic and physical sciences, biological sciences,

engineering and transportation and liberal arts. Degrees are awarded from

Texas A&M University. Computer science and technical writing courses are

taught across curricula, regardless of a student’s major field. In every course

each semester, formally administered questionnaires invite students to

appraise the effectiveness of teaching. Several unique courses have been

developed in response to the University’s marine orientation.

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TEXAS A&M MARITIME ACADEMY

The Texas A&M Maritime Academy provides an opportunity for students

to learn how to operate and maintain an ocean-going vessel. In addition to

classroom and field training during the regular school year, students sail

aboard the Texas A&M training ship during three summer cruises to gain

practical experience in seamanship, navigation, and operations. Cruises are

varied to include Northern Europe, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the

United States. At the conclusion of the program, Midshipmen are tested to

become licensed as officers in the U.S. Merchant Marine and may seek

employment in the exciting field of marine transportation as a licensed Third

Mate or Third Assistant Engineer.

The NROTC Program offers men and women an opportunity to qualify for

a commission in the Navy while attending TAMUG. Any student may join the

NROTC Program either as a National Scholarship winner or as a

non-subsidized college program student.

THE ISLAND CAMPUS

The island location of the campus on Galveston Bay and near the open

ocean is in symmetry with the ocean-oriented academic programs offered at

TAMUG. The Mitchell Campus, situated on the Galveston harbor and close to

the confluence of the Galveston and Houston ship channels, has immediate

access to the ocean and to estuarine areas including Galveston Bay. The Port of

Galveston and Port of Houston are nearby, as are many Gulf Coast industries.

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Submission of Contributions

Deadline for submission of full contributions: 15th July 2016

Full contributions should be submitted via the submission platform in

accordance with the guidelines on the IMEC website at

www.imla.com/imec . Authors are kindly requested to adhere to the guidelines.

Any queries about contributions for the Proceedings and/or conference

presentations should be sent to Alison Noble atalison.noble@hzs.bewith a

copy to imec28.ait@chalmers.se

Registration

Conference registration online!

http://www.imla.co/imec/ => Conference News

Deadline for registration: July 31, 2016

IMEC28 Second Announcement The 28th International Maritime English Conference

“Maritime English across the domains:

Cross-curricular integration of teaching and learning activities”

Chalmers University of Technology

Gothenburg Sweden

SEPTEMBER 19 - 22, 2016

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Conference News

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Preliminary Program

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Important Dates

Registration Register Online:

http://www.samtra.co.za/inslc-19-conference-2016/registration-information

INSLC19 The 19th International Navigation Simulation Lecturers Conference

5 – 8 SEPTEMBER 2016

WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA

The South African Maritime Training Academy (SAMTRA)

Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)

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Program Overview and Schedule

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INSCL19 Overview

We are proud to announce that the honour of hosting the next International

Navigation Simulator Lecturers’ Conference (INSLC 19) been awarded to South

Africa - the first ever INSLC conference to be hosted in Africa. The South

African Maritime Training Academy (SAMTRA) and the Cape Peninsula

University of Technology (CPUT) were nominated during INSLC 18 in 2014, to

co-host the event which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 5

September 2016.

INSLC, as part of the International Maritime Lecturers Association (IMLA),

provides a forum for professionals involved in the advancement of maritime

education, training, and research, specifically through the use of simulation.

The conference plays an important role as an effective medium for the

interchange of ideas and experience among members and guests of the INSLC

and presents an Ideal opportunity for both simulator manufacturers and

simulator users to discuss issues of mutual interest for training and research

development.

As simulator professionals operate as global players, international conferences

are an ideal forum to discuss and share information, and explore new

approaches. The INSCL 19 programme is designed to attract experts, decision

makers, and influential personalities you want to

meet. SAMTRA and CPUT look forward to welcoming you to Cape Town in

2016.

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IMLA-IMEC

IMLA-IMEC Steering Committee

(Since October 2015)

Clive Cole

Clive Cole, Chair of IMLA-IMEC Associate Professor and Director ESS Programs, World

Maritime University, Malmo, Sweden, Hon Secretary of IMLA

Catherine Logie,

Catherine Logie, Vice Chair of IMLA-IMEC Manager, Marlins, Glasgow, U.K.

Alison Noble

Alison Noble, Head of Papers & Activities Committee (4 members) Senior Lecturer Maritime

English, Antwerp Maritime Academy, Belgium

Peter C. van

Kluijven

Peter C. van Kluijven, Steering Committee member Maritime University of Applied

Sciences/STC Group, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Naoyuki Takagi

Naoyuki Takagi, Steering Committee member Professor at Tokyo University of Marine

Science & Technology, Tokyo, Japan

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Jane Magallon

Jane Magallon, Steering Committee member Senior Lecturer Maritime Academy of Asia and

the Pacific, Bataan, Philippines

The IMEC Papers & Activities Committee

Dr. Carmen Chirea Ungureanu - - Assoc. Prof. at Constanta Maritime University, Romania.

Peter John - - Jade University of Applied Sciences, Elsfleth, Germany

Dr. Sandra Tominac - - Rijeka University, Faculty of Maritime Studies, Croatia.

Wang Xian -- Associate Professor, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China.

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A farewell to IMLA-IMEC

Dear Maritime English Family,

At IMEC 27, which was a very emotional event for me, after 21 successful years as the Captain of

IMEC, I left the bridge for the watch below, so to speak. I do hope that this step will be an essential

contribution to the necessary rejuvenation of the IMLA Committee and the IMEC Steering

Committee.

The younger generation is now given the chance to steer our IMLA-IMEC vessel safely over calm

seas and through troubled waters as well.

Dear friends, my decision didn’t come easily to me, as it was an honour, a pleasure and a

privilege to sail with you in the same boat for so many years. My work for our Association blessed

me with the most outstanding moments of my professional career – I tried to do what I was

expected to at my level best.

Dear members of the IMEC Steering Committee and, moreover, my dear Maritime English family:

full of gratitude I will recall for good your cooperation, your loyalty and your friendship.

My special thanks go to Prof. Dr. Jin Yongxing, Honorary Chairman of IMLA, for the untiring

support he rendered to IMEC, the most active interest group of IMLA, I may say.

Furthermore, I wish to express my gratefulness towards Milhar Fuazudeen, Head of IMO Maritime

Training and Human Element Section, who, as an upcoming young IMO technical officer piloted

me through the shallows of IMO and taught me the lyrics of the Organization. He has been a

long standing supporter of Maritime English communication and inspired our work essentially.

My dear friends, I am still alive and if IMEC would feel that my humble experience or opinion

could be of a certain use one of these days – I am on standby. However, I wouldn’t mind if you’d

remember me at least for a certain while.

I wholeheartedly wish you and the yours all the best.

Prof. Dr. Peter Trenkner

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From Chair Clive Cole

Dear Friends,

May I first thank the Members of the IMLA-IMEC Steering Committee for (s)electing me as its 4th

Chairperson, and for the honour they have bestowed. It was with some trepidation mingled with

anticipation that I took up my duties and tasks at the close of IMEC 27 in October, but I’m fully

conscious of what these involve having been the Vice Chair since 2002.

IMEC was founded in 1981, at a time when I was dabbling with Aviation English, but it wasn’t

until I took the risk of joining the newly established WMU on an initial 1-year contract in 1984

that I embraced Maritime English.

I recall my first international experience in this “odd” arena of ESP was as a young(ish)

participant at IMLA’s Fourth Workshop on Maritime English, held at Plymouth Polytechnic, UK in

1987.

This was followed a few weeks later in Hamburg at the “EngMart” colloquium of the

German Association of Maritime English (GAME – what a delightful acronym) where I met a

certain Peter Trenkner from the German Democratic Republic, who became my mentor, my

colleague, my collaborator and close friend. Replacing Peter Trenkner after his 21 years as the

IMEC Chair will be no easy task, but one thing for sure is that our physical profiles will never be

confused, even if we Europeans all look the same!

And then there’s the reassurance that IMEC has an energetic cadre of enthusiastic, talented and

dedicated members as evident in its Steering Committee and Papers & Activities Committee

which, and we are proud of this, has the perfect 50:50 gender balance, unique to the Maritime

Industry! So what might be our passage plan? Well, it’s a little early to say yet, but already we

know we’re heading for Gothenburg, Sweden in September next year for IMEC 28 to be held by

our hosts at the Chalmers University of Technology. No doubt they are feeling challenged after

experiencing the outstanding arrangements offered by NMIT at IMEC27 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia,

but different country, different culture, and we can expect much more than Vikings, Volvos and

Vodka next September since, if there’s one thing the Swedes are famous for, its their superb

organisational skills!

So, as you read on in this Newsletter, note the dates and challenge yourselves to be part of the

IMEC family life; after all, it’s the participants and presenters, along with our hosts, who truly

make our gatherings meaningful.

See you there!

Clive

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