Graduate Certificate in Aviation

Students will explore the challenges faced in the supply chain, the basic concepts of supply chain management, supply chain strategy, supply chain network, supply chain planning, and forecasting.

Course Benefits

This course provides a detailed view of the challenges faced in supply chain management, strategy, network, planning, and forecasting. These real-world scenarios are illustrated through relevant and up to date case studies in the area of global logistics and supply chain management.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Upon the completion of this course, participants should be able to
• Appreciate the significance of logistics and supply chain management in global trade.
• Identify the composition of a global supply chain and analyze the supply chain strategies of firms in the context of key operational issues involved in the global supply chain.
• Assess Supply Chain Operational Reference Model SCOR processes.
• Analyze the logistics of global trade operations with a focus on spare parts for aircraft.
• Evaluate the levels of risk, efficiency, and sustainability of a global supply chain.

Students will explore the basic concepts of human factors and key human performance issues relevant to aviation operations. They will integrate human factors knowledge into key areas of aviation operations. This course will also focus on applying operational human factors knowledge to safety investigation activities.

Course Benefits

This course provides participants with applicational knowledge to enhance daily aviation operations, human factors and systems safety knowledge. This will assist the participants in optimizing the fit between people (themselves and co-workers) and the overall systems to improve the safety and performance level of the organization.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe and explain aviation human factors and ergonomics concepts
• Assess key human performance and limitations of human, including ergonomics
• Integrate and apply human factors knowledge into key areas of daily aviation operations
• Evaluate human factors and overall systems safety relationships and apply these concepts to their day-to-day operations and safety investigation activities.

This course aims to educate airport professionals in sustainable airport operations by identifying the elements that make airports sustainable facilities and the appreciation of corporate sustainability management. Furthermore, participants will get to apply ISO standards with a focus on ISO 14001/50001 and examine the role of leadership in building a sustainable culture in airport operations.

Course Benefits

This course addresses standards to reduce airports' environmental footprint, including net zero emissions schemes, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources plans, noise performance evaluation and waste and water management, among others. Hence, airport professionals must learn how to apply sustainable practices in everyday operations and working tasks. Sustainability must be holistically applied in any organizational environment. This course will support airport professional experts in learning what sustainability means for airport operations, how to apply it, and the benefits of sustainability in airport operations.

Key Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Identify the initiatives for sustainable airports.
• Apply ISO standards with a focus on ISO 14001/50001.
• Evaluate the factors that make airport facilities able to operate sustainably.
• Examine the factors to create corporate sustainability management systems for airports.
• Identify the role of leadership for a sustainable culture in airport operations.

This course provides students with the specialized project management skills essential for success in the aviation industry, covering core principles, planning, risk management, and effective communication.

Course Benefits

This course provides participants with real-world applications and take-aways. As airport projects are significant undertakings spanning years and costing hundreds of millions, the course emphasizes actionable strategies for cost optimization and maximizing shareholder returns at the participants' organizations.

Key Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Learn core project management approaches, methodologies, and processes.
• Gain insights from practical examples and real-world airport projects.
• Discover best practices for cost optimization and maximizing shareholder value in these high-stakes, multi-year endeavors.
• Explore how consultants and subcontractors can adapt their roles throughout the project lifecycle to ensure continued relevance and success.
• Assess how consultants and subcontractors can adapt their roles throughout the project lifecycle to ensure continued relevance and success.

This course comprehensively examines aviation security, encompassing historical developments, current regulations, physical and cyber security measures, emergency response protocols, and interdepartmental collaboration.

Course Benefits

This course provides an overview to better understand the nature of airport components with respect to stakeholders and capacity. This course provides an effective grounding in managing aircraft movements, passengers and airport facilities through real cases of airport planning, design and operations.

Key Learning Outcomes

• Gain insights into how different parts of an airport work together and impact capacity.
• Learn how to effectively handle aircraft movements, passengers, and airport facilities.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of airport security, including historical context, threat assessment, and regulations.
• Explore physical security measures and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) for airport protection.
• Understand the role of airport security in emergency response and the importance of interdepartmental cooperation.

The Aircraft Leasing and Financing Course covers the aircraft financing and leasing industry, enabling participants to understand its history, key players, legal aspects, financing options, credit analysis, and lease versus buy decision-making.

Course Benefits

This Aircraft/Aviation Finance and Leasing Course provides a comprehensive understanding of the aircraft financing and leasing industry, equipping participants with the knowledge to analyze airline credit, evaluate funding sources, and make informed lease versus buy decisions. It benefits professionals across the transportation industry, including appraisers, accountants, acquisition managers, and consultants, by enhancing their expertise in aviation finance and regulatory frameworks.

Learning Objectives

• Gain insights into the history, growth, and current state of the aircraft leasing industry, including key players and business models.
• Understand the unique legal and regulatory environment of aircraft financing, encompassing relevant laws, regulations, conventions, and treaties.
• Explore various aircraft funding sources and analyze the current financing environment and its outlook.
• Develop the skills to assess airline credit risk and make informed lease versus buy decisions from both the airline and lessor perspectives.

This comprehensive course equips air transportation professionals with actionable insights into airline operations management through real-world case studies and the latest industry developments, empowering them to make informed decisions.

Course Benefits

This course aims to foster actionable takeaways for participants by building their knowledge base around the multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary aspects of effective airline management. This course utilizes the latest developments and trends in airline operations management as highlighted through real-world case studies from the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the evolution of Airline Operations with respect to stakeholders, function and organizational structure, in the context of Air transportation industry.
• Identify key drivers, benefits and challenges from innovation, technological advances, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation on airline operations.
• Evaluate the interaction of leadership styles and business strategies on financial management, crisis management and risk mitigation practices in the airline industry.
• Derive insights on Revenue Management, Pricing Strategies, Financial management in the airline industry with an emphasis on cost control and cost reduction strategies, pricing and revenue optimization and diversification techniques.
• Analyze and apply Fleet Planning Optimization, Aircraft acquisition, maintenance and retirement strategies.

This curated course provides air cargo professionals with a comprehensive understanding of air cargo management complexities and regulations, incorporating real-world case studies to facilitate practical application.

Course Benefits

This course aims to holistically develop the participants' knowledge of the complexities, intricacies and nuances of air cargo management. Furthermore, this course takes an applied view of the latest regulations in the air cargo market and incorporates interesting case studies from the Asia Pacific region and beyond.

Key Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe the evolution of air cargo transportation and its economic significance in global trade.
• Derive insights into Supply Chain Management in air cargo in relation to regulation, security, distribution channels and networks with an emphasis on Role of Freight on sustainable practices.
• Evaluate air cargo handling and processes using Process Thinking and Lean Principles in air cargo management with an emphasis on air cargo performance optimization.
• Analyze Revenue Management techniques in Air Cargo and identify components of cargo Revenue Management Strategy, Overbooking Strategies and Pricing Strategies for Different Types of Cargo
• Appreciate Optimization techniques in air cargo operations through modelling, linear programming and case study applications.

This foundational aviation cybersecurity course for security and technical leaders integrates aviation and cybersecurity to equip them with the knowledge to identify threats, navigate regulations, and implement effective practices.

Course Benefits

Attendees will gain actionable competencies and cybersecurity awareness to apply at their workplace to provide a more robust and secure operational environment. Both the Leadership* and the Technical Management** tracks will be covered.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Appreciate how technology underpins all aviation systems and how technology is connected with a focus on the interdependencies between aviation safety and cybersecurity
• Analyze why and how adversaries attack systems, using examples and working through attack phases
• Identify and scope cybersecurity critical systems within aviation
• Assess the regulatory and legal considerations of aviation cybersecurity
• Explain the importance and value of aviation cybersecurity culture
• Gain an understanding of the value and elements of practical real-world exercises by participating in the course Tabletop Cybersecurity Incident Exercise.