Course Detail: SGA-1001 - Airport Management
Overview
Modern airports are more than just crucial nodes for passenger and cargo traffic. This course in Airport Management is specifically created for airport, airline, and air navigation service provider's professionals to further operate and manage their aviation organization and to apply fundamental planning concepts of airports industry.
Who should attend?
This course is intended to add actionable value for airport managers, aviation leaders, policymakers, and professionals in the field of air transportation.
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
Upon the completion of this course, participants should be able to
- Appreciate the development of airport terminals from the early days of commercial aviation to present-day terminal design concepts
- Identify an airport's reference code and describe the airport systems and how the components of airside and landside integrates in the airport organization chart
- Identify the various facilities on an airport's airfield and the specifications and types of airport runways, airport layout and runway orientation planning using wind rose analysis
- Describe the various navigational aids that exist on airfields (e.g. airfield lighting, signage, and markings) and infrastructure to increase the security of the airfield
- Understand how air traffic control, safety inspection programs, aircraft rescue and firefighting requirements affects airport management
- Define the various types of airport planning studies and the different elements of the airport master plan and discuss current and future issues concerning airports.
Course Delivery
The course is delivered in a blended modality that uses EagleVision and Canvas to deliver the curriculum in a virtual classroom, providing a campus learning experience from anywhere.
- EagleVision: A technology that combines web video conferencing with a virtual learning environment to enhance real-time collaboration, allowing you to communicate directly and instantly with professors and classmates during scheduled meetings.
- Canvas: An educational platform designed with the online teaching and learning experience in mind, is a cloud-based system that is viewable on any web browser, computer, or mobile device and allows for engagement and collaboration through video, audio, integrated media recorder, text, and discussion boards at whatever time you chose.
This course is delivered over four weeks, with EagleVision sessions on Saturdays from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm Singapore time (UTC +8) and online Canvas activities taking place throughout all four weeks. The dates and times of the next session are shown below in the Session Information section.
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