MITEC’s Mission
The mission of the Marine Industry Training & Education Council (MITEC) is to facilitate the development and sustained availability of a technically skilled and proficient workforce for the marine industry through education, training and professional development.The supporting mission of the Council is to promote public awareness of technical workforce career opportunities in the marine industry. The missions will be realized in part by:
- Producing and disseminating technical workforce public information education and career awareness materials for multiple media outlets.
- Serving as the coordinating entity for those industry and educational organizations desiring to participate in this voluntary, consensus-based program.
- Coordinating, managing and disseminating an annual catalog of all known marine industry technical education and training currently being offered in North America.
- Establishing and managing an internationally recognized technical workforce continuing education and training program that recognizes and awards educational credits to persons participating in the program.
- Establishing, coordinating and maintaining an automated, electronic database management system to provide essential educational record keeping, certificate production and transcripts for technical workforce personnel who volunteer to participate in the program
- Administering the program with the administrative service support of ABYC or any other entity or staff the Council determines best meets its needs.
