Shipping Simulation Hub
City of Glasgow College has officially opened a £2.5 million state-of-the-art shipping simulation hub, creating Europe’s largest and most advanced facility of its kind. The new hub marks a major step forward in maritime training, boosting the college’s capacity to educate the next generation of seafarers and strengthening Glasgow and Scotland’s reputation as a global leader in maritime education and innovation.
The upgraded facility expands the college’s simulator provision from one 360° bridge simulator to three, and from five simulators to 13 in total. This transformation allows the college to train over 50% of the UK’s Merchant Navy officers and cadets while welcoming learners from around the world.
Engine Room
The college recently took a large scale delivery, when a 20-tonne ship's engine arrived at the engineering workshops at the college’s Riverside Campus.
The MAK designed and built engine is a vital component in creating the most modern working engine room in a college in the UK, if not Europe, underlining the world-class facilities we offer marine engineering students.
Supplied, delivered and fitted by Imps UK Ltd of Lincoln, this engine can be used as the main engine for a coastal vessel or as a diesel generator for a large marine vessel, but in this situation will be used to drive an alternator instead of a ship's propeller.
This alternator can then be paralleled onto the main switchboard with the caterpillar generator (also being installed) which will supply the power to run the plant.