MOTIVATION AND EXPECTATION OF MARINE ENGINEERING STUDENTS

In partial fulfilment to the requirement of English 4, Research Writing

Jhon Loyd Almacin

Daniel John Revelo

Gyro Llanos

Dale Laurence Marata

 Chapter 1

Introduction:

The Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering is a four year degree

program that centres on the construction, operation, and maintenance of different
kinds of marine vessels such as cargo ships, cruise ships, fishing boats,
battleships, and submarines.

This program aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills that
will enable them to operate and maintain the different machineries installed in
marine vessels including the propulsion plant, adjunct and auxiliary machinery,
electrical and refrigeration system. The Bachelor of Science in Marine
Engineering is taught through classroom based frontal instructions as well as
hands-on training usually conducted in special laboratories and one year
apprenticeship aboard a ship.

In Philippines, most of its citizens suffer poverty, lack of food, lack of

shelter, and lack of chances to have a better future. Nowadays, the youths
dream big as far as their imaginations. Their wants go beyond the farthest
destination. They want to explore the world. Maritime education will bring them
to their goal. In this profession they will reach out their dreams. A lot of benefits
and opportunity will come. Maritime students expected that if they are dedicated
in this career they will achieve what they dream.

There are some students who are inspired by their neighbour or maybe
there is a generation of seafarers in their blood, some by their friends or it might
be by the request of their parents. Being a maritime student is not always good.
There are circumstances that make them feel hopeless to finish it. The financial
need is a major factor that affects their studies, others came from peer pressure
or unique environment. No matter what reasons what they have they are already
motivated to choose maritime study. Question of improvement quality of studies
is a continual hot issue in every educational environment. In maritime education
and training, this question is especially important because of international
regulations of maritime professions.
Significance of the study

The results of these research provided information for the maritime

graduates in Misamis Institute of Technology (MIT) and the students returning to

maritime courses. For maritime graduates, this research will be able to provide

the motivation to expand their dreams as a sailor and an officer of a ship and be

good at their job. For students of MIT that they maybe able to fulfill their dreams

of being a seafarer. That they may also hone their skills, achieve good discipline and

be proud of what they have become. And lastly, to students intending to enrol in the

maritime course that they may be able to acquire more information on the course

of their choice and decide intelligently if it suitsthem or not.

Scope and delimitation of the study

This study aimed to answer the questions on the motivations and

expectations of the respondents on the respective programs that they enrolled in

MIT. There were few reasons why the researchers chose this research topic.

First of all, there were many issues and problems which took place in the

courtesy segment and many of them have an impact in their performance

and organizational

o u tco me th at c a n mo t iv ate mar itime s tu den ts an d wh at c an be

used to g ain th e ir
commitment from maritime instructors, teacher and staff of the school

perspective. By investigating students motivation issues in small and medium

sized pubs from maritime instructors, teacher and staff of the school

perspective will only help the MIT to

understand the perception and attitude of students towards the curr

ent motivation practice in the MIT they work for, but also enable students in

this segment to find out strategies to motivate them to work hard and retain

them. This research ,as conducted at MIT, Banadero Hi-way, Ozamiz City. The

researchers distributed survey questionnaire to the responding students to gather

the necessary data pertinent in this study.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Motivation

T hat s tuden t inh eren tl y h ave to g ain the ir cer tif ic ation f alls sh

or t

of creating the desire to learn.

Expectation

is defined as believing that something is going to happen or believing that

something should be a certain way.

Bachelor of Science in Maritime Engineering

 is a four year degree program that centers on the construction, operation, and

maintenance of different kinds of marine vessels such as cargo ships, cruise ships,

fishing boats, battleships and submarines.

Seafaring

Is the career or work of a sailor and stepping stone of young generation due to the salary

Apprentice

Is the one year on the job training of cadets.

Competency

Is the foundation of the students being consistent to his work.

Attitude

is the behavior of the student how he comply the command.

Statements of the problem

The study aimed at determining the current status of students wh

o are not motivated and well-prepared in pursuing maritime studies. Specifically, the

study sought to answer the following question.

1. what are the motivations of the students in pursuing maritime education?

2. what are the expectations of the students in pursuing

maritime education?
 3. Is there a significant relationship between motivation and expectation of the

students in pursuing marine engineering?

NULL HYPOTHESIS

This study shows the difference between motivation and expectation of students

pursuing marine engineering.

There is no significant difference between motivation and expectation.

CHAPTER 2
Research Methodology

Research Design
This chapter discusses the research methodology of the complete project for this research work with
respect to the approaches to the problem, reason for choice of the topic, title of the thesis, objective of
the study, hypothesis of the study, research design and methodology, tools used for collection of data,
significance of the study, limitations of the study.

Research Locale
The study was conducted at MIT (Misamis Institute of Technology) banadero Highway, Ozamiz City

Participants of the study

The participants of the study are the third year marine engineering students

Sampling procedure
Research Instrument
Scoring procedure
Treatment of data