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BSc Minor Operation & Exploitation

Wouter Beelaerts

In cooperation with Dries Visser, Max Mulder

Introduction to the BSc Minor program

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BSc Minor Operation & ExploitationLEARNING OBJECTIVES

Basic knowledge of the economic, operational,

technological and management related problems

associated with the development and operation of future

air transportation systems and of the exploration and exploitation of space.

CHAIRS INVOLVEDProf. M. van ToorenProf. J.A MulderProf. B.A.C. AmbrosiusProf. R. Curran

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BSc Minor Operation & Exploitation

Business Economics for Aerospace Engineers 4 ECTS E Practical (literature & case) 2 P

Aerospace Systems and Control Theory 3 E Practical AE Systems and Control Theory 2 P

Air Transportation and Systems 4 EPractical Strategic Planning for Airports 3 P

Numerical Analysis CI 3 E Practical Numerical Analysis 1 P

Systems Engineering and Technical Management 3 E

Space Engineering & Technology III 3 E Practical Space Eng. & Technology 2 P

TOTAL 30

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Objectives:Business

Economics

The course Business Economics for Engineers provides the tools to effectively manage the firm and introduces the most important business issues the entrepreneur incurs.

The emphasis is on financial analysis: How to judge financial performance of an enterprise?

How to decide on investment proposals? How to raise capital?

Successful entrepreneurship starts with accurate analysis of the firm, product and market.

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Objectives:Business

Economics - Financial performance

- Managing growth

- Raising capital: equity financing

- Financial markets

- Mergers, bankruptcy, corporate restructuring

- Cost accounting

- Case: Profit loss account, balance sheet

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Objectives:Air transportation

Objective: to gain insight into the regulations and

economics of Air Transportation; organization and

functions of the most important actors in the air

transport industry.

- Development of airports and airlines

- Air traffic management

- Technology developments

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Objectives:Airport strategic planning

systems Understanding of the complex interrelationships and interactions among airport capacity, airport demand, policy changes, investments, and environmental issues.

laboratory exercises “design and operate your own airport”, which are directly linked to the topics of the lectures.

In the laboratory exercises use is made of an integrated set of software tools called the Airport Business Suite (ABS).

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Objectives:

Aerospace Systems and Control Theory

• Understand and model dynamical systems behaviour

• A look at input signals and a system’s response to input signals

• Designing and tuning control systems; autopilot, satellite attitude control

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Application: Modeling human control behavior

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Application: Automatic control

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Application: Understanding Sensor Specifications

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Format

• Lectures, wit lecture notes + book (Ogata, Modern Control Engineering)

• Practical, web based• Individual assignments• Most assignments to be solved with a CACSD package

(Computer Aided Control System Design), Matlab or Scilab, at student’s choice

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BSc Minor Operation & ExploitationLEARNING OBJECTIVES

Basic knowledge of the economic, operational, technological and management related problems associated with the development and operation of future air transportation systems and of the exploration and exploitation of space.

CHAIR HOLDERS INVOLVED

Prof. M. van ToorenProf. J.A. MulderProf. B.A.C. AmbrosiusProf. R.Curran