Five students who are taking the course of Organization and control of non-destructive tests in the National Reference Center of Cartagena (CRN), under the Employment and Training Service (SEF), had today the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge acquired during his training period in an informative day in the laboratory of the National Museum of Underwater Archeology (Arqua).
Specifically, these students and two of their professors were able to inspect, along with the restorers of this exhibition space, the sixteenth-century guns of the frigate Nuestra Senor de las Mercedes that were recovered last summer during a scientific expedition.
To do this, they have used CRN equipment, such as an endoscope, which has allowed them to analyze the different materials with which they were manufactured.
The general director of the SEF, Alejandro Zamora, who attended this informative day together with the director of Arqua, Iván Negueruela, stressed that "the collaboration with institutions and entities from different sectors, such as the one that allows us to be in Arqua, makes it easier for Students can approach a real work experience that, in this case, also supposes a unique opportunity to experiment with materials that are centuries old ".
The course carried out by these students, with 90 hours of theoretical and practical training, is one of the modules that make up the curricular program to obtain a certificate of professionalism Organization and control of non-destructive tests.
It is a level 3 certificate that registers a high labor insertion.
Thus, once completed, students will be able to work, for example, in the aeronautical or naval sector, reviewing the technical status of aircraft or boats.
The National Reference Center of Cartagena also used as didactic material to impart this specialty the spatial spheres that fell in Mula, Calasparra and Hellín in 2015. This center was in charge of guarding them until January of last year when the United States Air Force United claimed them to be auxiliary fuel tanks of a rocket Atlas V of NASA.
Training reference in the chemical sector
The National Reference Center of Cartagena, under the SEF, was declared a national reference center in the family of Chemistry by the central government last year and currently offers high content and technical level training in the areas of Analysis and control, Chemical process, Pharmaceutical, Pulp, paper and cardboard, and Transformation of polymers of the professional chemical family.
The CRN teaches between 25 and 30 courses a year and trains more than 500 students.
Regarding the level of insertion of these courses, which varies according to the specialty, between 40 and 60 percent of students who successfully complete any of the specialties offered find work.
Source: CARM