Appendix 6 - Syllabus for AMSA Oral Examination,
Certificates of Competency, Engineer Class 1
• Combustion
Boilers • Timing
• Water gauge • Lubrication
• Local • Alignment
• Remote • Automation
• Manhole doors • Gear boxes and clutches
• Feed check V/Vs • Vibration dampers
• Blowdown V/Vs • Thrust bearing
• Safety Valves • Turbo chargers
• Operations • Diesel electric
• Furnace purging • Survey
• Uptake fires • Diesel alternators
• Superheater fires • Water treatment
• Raising steam
• Shutting down, lay up Steam Propulsion
• Water testing • Operation
• Water hammer • Warming through
• Priming and foaming • Shutting down
• Construction arrangement • Manoeuvring
• Automatic controls • Emergency
• Survey • Parameters
• Combustion • Turbines
• Associated Systems & Equipment • Protection devices
• Thrust bearing
Diesel Propulsion • Gland steam
• Operation • Flex coupling
• Crankcase explosion • Manoeuvring V/V
• Scavenge fires • Automation
• Air line explosion • Protection devices
• Manoeuvring • Lubrication
• Emergency • Impulse, reaction
• Warming through • Gear boxes
• Shutting down • Survey
• Parameters • Alignment
• Fuel consumption • Turbo electric
• Combustion • Turbo alternators
• Associated Systems & Equipment • Operation and construction
• Slow, Medium and High speed • Associated Systems & Equipment
• Manoeuvring controls
• Protection devices
• Construction
Water Treatment • Fixed installations
• Evaporators • Detection
• Distillers • Sensors, systems
• Ion exchange • UMS requirements
• Reverse osmosis • Structural fire protection
• Testing
• Chemicals Pumping Systems
• Fire main
Feed Systems • Oily water separator
• Arrangement • Bunkering
• Feed pumps • Bilge and ballast systems
• Deaerators and heaters • Salt water system
• Air ejector • Fresh water cooling
• External pumps • Sewage plant
• Condenser • Fuel oil and diesel oil systems
• Water testing • Inert gas system
• Auto controls • Lubricating oil system
• Corrosion • Cargo system
• Sanitary system
Steering Gear & Rudders • Purifiers, clarifiers
• Emergency operation • Heaters
• Construction • Pumps: positive displacement, etc
• Control
• Lubrication Refrigeration Systems
• Survey • Safety
• Direct and indirect expansion
Air Compressors • Air conditioning
• Safety devices • Compressors
• Compressor
• Receiver Materials
• Air line • Properties
• Operation • Destructive & non-destructive
• Lubrication Testing
• Starting air
• Service and control air Propellers & Thusters
• Receivers • Fixed pitch
• Automation • Attachment
• Survey • Survey
• Controllable pitch
Fire • Operating system
• Prevention • Attachment
• Extinction • Survey
• Hoses, extinguishers • Stern tube bearing
• BA sets • Screw shafts
• Procedures • Cross thrusters
• Fixed and CP prop • Protection devices
• Voith Schneider, etc • DC generators
• DP systems • as per AC
• Distribution
Dry Docking • Isolation
• Supply of fire fighting water • Electric shock
• Supply of electrical power • Protection devices
• Stability • Fault detection
• Measurement of weardown, • Main switchboard
clearances • Emergency switchboard
• Measurement of alignment • Distribution boards
• Certificates of survey • Flame proof
• Annual • Drip proof
• Safety Equipment • Intrinsically safe
• Safety Construction • Transformers
• Load line • Two wire
• Classification • Non-earthed and earthed neutral
• Ships structure • Motors
• Corrosion, erosion • AC: single and three phase
• Cavitation
• Mechanical damage Deck Machinery
• Cleaning, protection • Davits and winches
• Windlass
Tanks • Cranes
• Safety precautions • Derricks
• Entering • Hatches
• Pressure testing • Other
• Survey
Automation & Control
Stability • Bridge control
• Free surface • UMS
• Damage control • Fault detection
• Requirement
Electricity • Transfer from manual to auto
• Emergency generators • Measuring devices
• Operation • Testing
• Construction • Calibration
• Statutory requirements • Survey
• Testing
• Fault detection
• AC generators
• Operation
• Construction
• Control equipment
• Fault detection
Machinery Records
• Oil Record Book
• Log books
• Trend recording
• Official records
• Combustion analysis
• Condition monitoring
Maritime Law
• MARPOL, SOLAS
• ISM Code
• Marine Orders
• Other
Management
• Training of Engine-room staff
• Management and organisation of
Emergency response staff/dept
