Wärtsilä’s Makes a Noble Gesture by Donating Engine to Texas A&M University at Galveston
Wärtsilä has given an 8-chamber Wärtsilä 20 motor and generating set, to the Marine Engineering Technology Department at Texas A&M University at Galveston. The gift speaks to a continuation of Wärtsilä’s continuous industry support program projected at helping future maritime division pioneers to gain point by point comprehension of marine advancements.
The gift incorporates forte instruments and will furnish learners with significant hands-on experience for growing their insight into engine repairs, emanations and mileage. Notwithstanding the hardware, Wärtsilä will likewise offer engine training to the Texas A&M Galveston engineering professors through the Wärtsilä Land and Sea Academy situated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
“Wärtsilä is a future oriented company. We not only develop technologies that move the industry forward, but are pleased to enhance the training of maritime specialists, naval architects, and marine engineers. We are proud to invest in the future of the US Maritime Industry by donating this engine to Texas A&M Galveston,” says Aaron Bresnahan, Managing Director, Wärtsilä North America, Inc.
“This is a valuable learning and research tool for our students. They learn the basics of the engine and how to do various repairs that they might need one day at sea. It’s not a mock-up – it’s a real 1.6 megawatt engine as can be found in tugs and ferry boats. It’s just the kind of equipment our students will be working on once they graduate. It is an ideal tool for student education and for ongoing university research on marine power systems,” says Ed Clancy, Professor of Marine Engineering and head of the Marine Engineering Technology Department at Texas A&M Galveston.
The Texas A&M Maritime Academy is one of six state maritime academies in the United States. At the finish of their preparation program, cadets are analyzed to become licensed in the Merchant Marine as deck or designing officers. Arrangements are in progress by the college to control the gifted engine so that the learners can have the full experience of working and keeping up a present day engine. Once the genset is operational, Wärtsilä and Texas A&M Galveston will conduct campus festivity and disclosing.
The organization’s backing to maritime sector learners is likewise appeared in its gifts to other specialized learning foundations. In 2011, Wärtsilä gave a diesel motor, reduction gear, PTO (power take-off) and controls to the SUNY (State University of New York) Maritime College. In that same year, a controllable pitch propeller and shafting framework was given to the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and in 2013 an engine was given to Camosu College in Victoria, BC, Canada. In 2014, Wärtsilä gave a Wärtsilä 20 engine to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in South Africa. This last gift was a piece of the organization’s long haul supporting association with the South Africa International Maritime Institute (SAIMI).
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