Abstract
With adequate and detailed information, a large plant operator can generally maintain a plant’s good working condition. A ship engineer has the samework as a plant operator except that self-sufficiency at sea is a requirement for ship engineers.
On the basis of the cognitive process of human activities, Rasmussen proposed three different modes which are the knowledge-based mode, the rule-based mode, and the skill-based mode. One important but complex feature is to understand howto conduct the plant operator shift between eachmode.
On the other hand, E.R.M. was adopted by the IMO and will be introduced in engineer training programs. In this paper, group discussion was introduced as an effective leaning method. It was explored whether learning through group discussion was connected with the acquisition of management capabilities in E.R.M. The result verifies the effectiveness of groupdiscussion in learning E.R.M. techniques.
