INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MARITIME UNIVERSITIES PROCEEDINGS OF INAUGURAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY 26-29 JUNE 2000, ISTANBUL, TURKEY 114 IAMU Inaugural General Assembly Session IV A – Working Group 1 BASELINE STUDY, AND THE PREPARATION TOWARDS THE XXI ST CENTURY UNDERGRADUATE DECK AND ENGINE CURRICULA OF ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, MARITIME FACULTY O. K. Sağ, İ. Çiçek Ġstanbul Technical University, Maritime Faculty, TURKEY ABSTRACT In this paper, it is presented that STCW 95, Chapters II and III, Regulations II/1, II/2, III/1, III/2 define the mandatory minimum training and education requirements for certification of watchkeeping officers, masters, chief mates, and oceangoing engineering officers, second engineer officers, chief engineer officers. The general state / private education system in Turkey is given in detail with some striking examples. The existing Merchant Maritime Education which has classically been a 4+1 year University Degree Education with the Istanbul Technical University, Maritime Faculty is presented in comparison with other newly founded Turkish Institutions after STCW 95, emphasizing on the problems experienced. A model of a baseline study, and preparations towards the XXI. Century Merchant Maritime Undergraduate Education curricula‟s of Turkey towards finding solutions for the existing problems of the education system is clearly defined. A. INTRODUCTION – STCW ’95 REQUIREMENTS 1. STCW 95 – Chapter II – Master and Deck Department Regulation II/1 Mandatory minimum requirement for certification of officers in charge of a navigational watch on ships of 500 gross tonnage or more Paragraph 2 in regulation II/1 of the STCW 95 (Ref. 1) convention states Every candidate for certification shall: .1 be not less than 18 years of age .2 have approved seagoing service of not less than one year as part of an approved training programme which includes on-board training which meets the requirements of section A-II/1 of the STCW Code and is documented in an approved training record book, or otherwise have approved seagoing service of not less than three years;