2024-2025 College Catalog
Maritime Technology
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The Maritime Technology program, in collaboration with Ingalls, equips apprentices in the Ingalls Apprenticeship with the skills necessary for diverse career paths, ranging from shifters to metal and steel fabricators. With abundant job opportunities across the maritime industry nationwide, the program’s core curriculum focuses on essential maritime knowledge and practical skills. This comprehensive training prepares students for successful careers in the shipbuilding industry, contributing to the construction of military, commercial, and fishing vessels.
The Ingalls Apprentice School programs are administered in the Hayley Reeves Barbour Maritime Training Academy located at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula. These programs are recognized as the backbone of a well-trained workforce. Therefore, every effort is made to provide each apprentice with opportunities to learn all the phases of a selected craft. This is done by job-rotation, a system that allows the apprentice to perform in the various job assignments within the particular craft.
Training at the Ingalls Apprentice School is designed to provide an opportunity for men and women to master one of the many crafts of shipbuilding. The regular indentured apprentice programs consist of well-balanced curriculum of on-the-job training and related classroom instruction. Following successful completion of the program, the apprentice is promoted to the status of journeyman.
The Maritime Technology program prepares graduates for a range of career options from a shipfitter to metal or steel fabricator. Job opportunities for shipfitters and steel fabricators are plentiful nationwide. The core of the program includes the content identified by the Gulf States Shipbuilders Consortium (GSSC), plus additional knowledge and skills to enhance the preparation of students to work for major shipbuilders as well as smaller shipyards that build military, commercial, and fishing vessels.
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