Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Elektronik Seyir
	English	Electronic Navigation
Course Code	MRT 313	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	5	4	3	-	2
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Serdar Kum
Course Objectives		1. To get knowledge about the electronic equipment to use in navigation, 2. To teach the fundamental principles of those equipment, 3. To teach and get ability fundamental principles of ECDIS, limitations and obtaining efficient usage, 4. To teach Integrated Bridge and Navigation Systems, 5. To teach effective usage of those equipment for safe navigation.
Course Description		The Gyro Compass; Steering control system, Auto-Pilot, Echo-Sounders. Speed logs and Doppler. Global Positioning System (GPS); Hyperbolic Navigation System. Electronic charts and ECDIS (introduction to different type of ECDIS). Automatic Identification System (AIS). Long-range identification and tracking system (LRIT). Voyage Data Recorder (VDR). IMO performance standards. Integrated Bridge Systems. E-navigation applications.
Course Outcomes		Students who pass the course will be able to; I. Knowledge and skill to the principles and technical structure of electronic equipment, II. Basic principles and their operation, III. Assessment of data gathered from them and understand their limitations, IV. Learning their effective usage for safe navigation and avoiding collision.
Pre-requisite(s)		Nil
Required Facilities		Exercises for operating electronic navigation devices on training ships, and also simulation exercises in the simulators centre/CBT.
Other		Assign one of the electronic equipment (e.g. Gyro, echo sounder, speed log, GPS, DGPS, etc.)
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