QMED - Electrician / Refrigerating Engineer provides classroom presentations, hands-on practical demonstration, and shipboard training evolutions, candidates will demonstrate the practical skills needed for an endorsement as a QMED Electrician/Refrigeration.

This course provides mariners the experience and training in engine room operation, involving electrical and refrigeration systems including generator and distribution systems, and preparing, starting, paralleling, and changing over generators including:

• Operation of electric motors including proper starting and stopping procedures.
• High voltage installations.
• Shipping container refrigeration operation and maintenance. 

THE ASSESSMENTS FOR THIS COURSE ARE IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARDS OF TRAINING CERTIFICATION AND WATCHKEEPING TABLES- A-III/1, FOR COMPETENCE IN KNOWLEDGE OF THE FOLLOWING:

Table A-III/1 Specification of minimum standard of competence for officers in charge of an engineering watch in a manned engine-room or designated duty engineers in a periodically unmanned engine-room. 

Electronic Equipment:

• generator and distribution system
• preparing, starting, paralleling and changing over generators
• electrical motors including starting methodologies\
• high-voltage installations
• sequential control circuits and associated system devices
• characteristics of basic electronic circuit elements
• flowchart for automatic and control systems
• functions, characteristics and features of control systems for
• machinery items, including main propulsion plant operation control and steam boiler automatic controls