Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING

Introduction:
With the development and transformation of Central Luzon College of Science and Technology (CELTECH COLLEGE) simultaneously the increasing number of students enrolling from different courses specially to Maritime Education that make the school became popular at the same time the expectations of students its radical changes in terms of facilities .At the end of the life cycle of an item of technology, the issue arises as to whether it is more economical to use or dispose of obsolete equipment. As improvement on CELTECH COLLEGE accelerates, this issue can arise within a year or two of purchase. In some cases, particularly where the technology will continue to perform satisfactorily to their students notwithstanding that it is obsolete, it may be worth retaining. In other cases, it may be desirable to upgrade technology quickly in order to gain some benefit from reselling the old equipment while it retains some value. The issue of when to upgrade obsolete equipment must be taking action, as it will impact on the likely cost of the school and increasing number of students will going to enroll.
On the other hand, if the life of a piece of transformation can be extended so that it can be used over several times, the cost of those changes can be amortized over that time. This will serve to reduce the longer-term cost of implementing Navigational Equipments. This approach necessitates a deliberate decision to reuse equipments even where it may in industry terms be obsolete. Provided that the equipments continue to perform its intended service to an acceptable standard, this is generally sound practice. When deciding whether to use antiquated equipments to amortize it over two or more electoral events, the cost of maintaining and if necessary upgrading or enhancing the equipments should pay attention on this problem because advancement of the equipments is one of the reason that the students are became literate on different kinds of Navigational Equipments in order to be more competitive from the other schools in terms of modern equipments that CELTECH COLLEGE offers specially to the Maritime Education.
When a decision has been taken to replace of obsolete equipment, it may be possible to achieve a good feedback to CELTECH COLLEGE from the student and also to the industry and if it would be happen, Central Luzon College of Science and Technology become popular and bigger in the near future.

Research Locale:
Focused on its vision to provide quality and globally competitive education for the Filipino youth, Central Luzon College of Science and Technology, or CELTECH College, is totally committed to be a leading career development and education center for maritime, health care, business and public administration, applied science, and technical-vocational courses to meet the manpower requirements of an industrializing and economically strong Philippines in the third millennium. Conceptualized as a fashion school on May 20, 1959 by Dona Helen P. Legaspi and opened formally in San Fernando, Pampanga as the Artistic Vocational School (AVS) on September 24 of the same year, CELTECH College, as it is known today, has evolved into a model institution of higher learning by providing low-cost and affordable quality education to the financially disadvantaged and hardworking youths of Pampanga, Tarlac, Bataan and Zambales provinces. In recognition of this pioneering and enterprising work of Mrs. Legaspi in quality vocational education, the Artistic Vocational School, the forerunner of CELTECH College, was awarded the most outstanding vocational school in Pampanga by the Lira Pampanguena. In 1964, the need for a bigger building to accommodate its increasing student population led to the construction of a four-storey building at B. Mendoza St., in San Fernando, which is the present site of its San Fernando campus. By 1967, a branch of AVS was opened in Angeles City, and shortly thereafter had its first commencement exercises with 205 vocational graduates. The school proved that it was not just an ordinary vocational school when it won 1st prize in the National Hair Styling Contest in 1968. In 1970, Dona Helen P. Legaspi was cited as the Most Outstanding Vocational Educator of the Philippines, owing to her dedication towards the improvement of vocational education. That same year, the Olongapo City branch was opened with complete technical, vocational and secretarial courses. Three years later, through the initiative of its Branch Administrator and Executive Vice President Renato P. Legaspi, the school management acquired a lot and a building at Rizal Ave., East Bajac-Bajac in Olongapo City. It has since been renovated into a five-storey structure and is now known as the Rizal campus of CELTECH College. In 1975, the 24 Radio Telephone and Radio Telegraphy Operator graduates successfully passed the National Telecommunication Commission 2nd Class Radio Operator’s licensure examination. Topnotcher on the national level was an AVS graduate, Israel Portugal, with a rating of 92.6 percent. From 1977-2002, AVS became a consistent champion in both the provincial and regional skills competitions in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Electronics, Electrical and Automotive Technology. In 1981, the school pioneered the offering of Maritime courses in Olongapo City, Zambales and Region III.
By this time, the Board of Trustees had changed the name of the school to Central Luzon Technical Institute (CLTI). With continuing increase in enrollment, the Board acquired the former Olongapo Doctor’s Hospital in Upper Kalaklan and CLTI became Central Luzon Institute of Technology (CLIT) in 1984. Now known as the Kalaklan campus, the building has been renovated into a towering structure which houses most of its curricular programs. Equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, it has fully air-conditioned classrooms and laboratories, a mini hospital, a mini hotel, and an auditorium. It also has a complete laboratory for the Automotive and Electrical courses, a modern photo and crime laboratory for Criminology, a College library with a 200-seating capacity equipped with its own Internet room, and a school cafeteria which serves complete meals. The installation of Dr. Renato P. Legaspi as the second President of the College in 1987 started an unprecedented pace of development in response to the needs of the school’s expanded curricular offerings. He traveled extensively to the United States, Southeast Asia and Canada, representing the country in international conferences on education and laying down the groundwork for linkages with companies, colleges and universities for on-the-job trainings, scholarships, research grants, and future employment of graduates. By 1999, the school passed the International Standard Organization ISO (9001:2000) as certified by the Anglo-Japanese-American Environmental Quality System (AJAEQS) and accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Society (UKAS) in London. Shortly thereafter, its Maritime programs passed 100% compliance of the STCW 95/CHED IMO requirements. In keeping with its continuing developments, CLIT became Central Luzon College of Technology (CLCT) in 1999 and finally in November 2001, it changed to its present name, Central Luzon College of Science and Technology, or CELTECH College. As the only ISO 9001:2000 accredited school in Olongapo and one of the fast developing schools in the region, it has three campuses in Olongapo City, Zambales and San Fernando, Pampanga. Present times CELTECH College prides itself not only for its modern facilities but more so for its highly-trained graduates annually yielding a high percentage of passers in the TESDA trade tests in Electrical, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology and Caregiver courses, as well as in the Professional Board examinations in Customs Administration, Marine Engineering, Marine Transportation, Criminology, and Nursing. Danilo Corpuz, a graduate of BS Marine Engineering, topped the board exam for 4th Marine Engineer Officer. Continually growing and keeping in step with the need to cater to the educational aspirations of the youth in Region 3, particularly in the Subic and Clark economic zones, Olongapo City, Zambales, Bataan, Tarlac and Pampanga,
CELTECH College aspires to be a model institution for values-driven and globally competitive education that guarantees employment locally and overseas. As of today, it offers 26 curricular programs and is in the midst of upgrading its laboratory and library facilities and renovating some structures in compliance to the standards set by CHED and accrediting agencies.Part of its blueprint for development is the recruitment of highly qualified faculty, coupled with the implementation of a comprehensive faculty development program. A review of its management structure is on going in order to meet the requirements of a growing organization. The present course offerings are likewise under review for accreditation purposes in light of the institutional efforts to revisit the vision-mission of the school after five decades of outstanding service to the moral formation and professional education of the Filipino youth. THE CHALLENGE AHEAD-- Dr. Renato P. Legaspi, President and CEO, sums up the challenge for the College: “In the next few years, we shall invest our efforts and resources in building the strong foundations of a good private university. We will not only strive to be a destination center of excellence in the Philippine education highway in Central Luzon, but we will seek to be a mainstream player in education for regional and national development. That is why the focus of our collective efforts, during and beyond our golden anniversary celebration, is transformative education for national transformation.

Statement of the Problem: The general problem of the study is to determine the antiquated navigational equipments used by CELTECH COLLEGE in Marine Education.
Following questions sought to be answer: 1. Comments and feedbacks of the concerned Students.

2. What are the objectives of modifying antiquated experiments used by CELTECH COLLEGE? 3. What is the importance of these transformations?

4. How does it affect to CELTECH COLLEGE Marine Transportation Students in terms of using obsolete equipments? 5. What are the proposal in this situation that CELTECH COLLEGE Marine Students facing nowadays?

Conceptual Framework:

Input Process Output

Figure 2 the conceptual framework of the study

Hypotheses: 1. There is no significant difference in the extent affecting the knowledge of the Marine Transportation Students of CELTECH COLLEGE using antiquated navigational equipments.

2. There is no significant difference in the level of readiness of level III Marine Transportation Students when familiarizing the navigational equipments. 3. There is no significant difference in the extent of implementation of using antiquated navigational equipments during their laboratory. 4. There is no significant difference in te level of satisfaction of the Marine Transportation Students of CELTECH COLLEGE when using antiquated navigational equipments.

Significance of the Study: The importance of our study is to become more knowledgeable on board ship and much less error. If the students of CELTECH COLLEGE using latest and appropriate equipments to their year it become more easily for the Marine Students on how to operate and use such equipment on ship. Therefore, the school will become more popular in terms of their equipments in their facilities and because the students are good as well. It is important because some of ships using latest navigational equipments when navigating at sea nowadays. It is an opportunity for the students to step forward to be ready on taking board exams as a Deck Officer is he or she has adequate knowledge on the bridge equipments. Sometimes, we admit that most of the students of CELTECH COLLEGE are illiterate how to open or operate such equipments because its cost a lot of money. In spite of more students using equipments, the more knowledge they will have. That is how important using modernized equipments used in order to comply the standard of International Maritime Organization(IMO) and to become best among other Deck Officers and to become vigilant Captain of the ship in the near future.

Scopes and Limitations: The study will be conducted in our beloved school Central Luzon College of Science and Technology in Kalaklan Building, Olongapo City. This will be acknowledge by the Third Year Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation Students are conducting a research in all about the antiquated navigational equipment used by CELTECH COLLEGE. In order to upgrade navigational equipments in Marine Education for the benefits of the Students to learn better simulation in different kinds of navigational equipments in order for the readiness of the students and to develop their self confidence on actual voyage.

Definition of Terms:

Acknowledge – to recognize the rights or authority or to admit as true.
Antiquated – old fashioned or outdated.
Bridge – a structure built over a depression or obstacle for use as a passage way.
Commit – to put into charge or trust, to pledge or assign to some particular course or use.
Conducting – to act as a medium for conveying or transmitting
Feedback – the return to the input of a part of the output of a machine, system, or process.
Implement – to provide implements, carry out
Importance – the quality or state of being important.
Intelligent – having or showing intelligence or intellect.
Obsolete – no longer in use, old fashioned.
Master – the commander of a merchant ship
Navigation – to steer or direct the course of a ship or aircraft
Proposal – to offer for consideration
Significant – having a hidden or special meaning.
Simulation – the act or process of simulating.
Standard – a figure adopted as an emblem by a people.
Upgrade – an upward grade or slope, increase, rise.
Vigilant – alertly watchful, to avoid danger
Voyage – a journey by water from one place to another.