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Council on Education, ensuring our facul- ty and our students that high standards will be maintained," Matthews said.

The physical plant of the school is most impressive. Teaching of engineering courses on diesel engineering and gas tur- bine operations is enhanced by operating units or cut away models of the engines.

In the diesel engineering lab there is an

EMD 645 diesel engine and a one cylinder

Sulzer engine standing three decks tall.

Students have hands on experience with these engines to supplement the textbook and classroom training.

The gas turbine laboratory also makes extensive use of actual gas turbine engines and cutaways of these engines for training.

Refrigerated containers are used exten- sively on many merchant ships. Maintain- ing these containers is a major challenge on vessels at sea. MEBA offers a course on refrigerated containers and uses seven operating units to give students actual experience on the operating characteris- tics of these modules.

A complete machine shop laboratory is setup with lathes and other tools to teach students basic metal working techniques.

Courses covering the range of shipboard experiences from digital electronics to welding are also taught.

The MEBA School has a suite of two full-mission ship's bridge simulators and two part-task bridge simulators with visu- als to replicate dozens of ports around the world. Together with the six desktop sim- ulators, the system provides the ability for interaction between ten separate ship's bridges simultaneously.

The newest addition to the Easton Cam- pus is a Merchant Marine Memorial Park, a 10 acre area that is dedicated to these fallen seafarers, their friends and family.

The U.S. Merchant Marine ashas always answered the call to deliver the goods dur- ing national emergencies and conflict.

The main feature of the park is an ele- vated garden-like retreat that is formed in the shape of a 600-ft. merchant ship. The front of the memorial is formed into a bow of a ship with two 5-ton anchors. A ship's bell, loaned from MarAd off the merchant ship African Sun, is prominently dis- played along with a 22-ft. propeller donat- ed by Wartsila Lips located at the stern of the display. The school plans to use this park as a peaceful retreat that is enhanced by a freshwater pond and an illuminated water feature. Brick pavers engraved with the names of mariners who have been memorialized surround the area con- taining the ship's bell. The future of the school seems secure with union members striving to upgrade their licenses and increase their skills. The school also accepts a limited number of non-MEBA members for training who serve on certain government-owned vessels. MEBA mem- bers now crew on the country's newest cruise ships such as NCL's Pride of Amer- ica. Other new tonnage on the horizon for

MEBA members are the new OSG tankers, scheduled to be built in Philadel- phia's AKER Shipyard. The Calhoon

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