| Unit name | Aerospace Commerce, Operations and Ethics |
|---|---|
| Unit code | AENGM0070 |
| Credit points | 10 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Lieven |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Aerospace Engineering |
| Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
To introduce students to the infrastructure of the air transport industry, commercial and regulatory considerations in aircraft operations, and also highlight contrasts between military and civil operations and other related topics. The unit will provide a focus for discussion concerning some operational issues arising from other units studied during the Aerospace Engineering degree course, such as Aeronautics, Design Project, etc
The most challenging part of the course will be the requirement for students to reflect on how commercial imperatives influence ethical judgement. This will be taught from a basis of establishing the commercial and operational imperatives in the civil and defence sector and aligning them with increasing awareness of aspects of sustainbility, autonomy and data security.
CONTENT OF LECTURE/SEMINARS
Note: the following list is provided without prejudice and should not be interpreted as prescriptive, inclusive or exclusive. It is provided as an indicator of broad areas relating to relevant topics which will be adjusted according to current practice, availability of staff and contemporaneous events (see examples under Assessment Details item 1).
Lecture topics:
• Introduction to the airline industry
• Airline economics
• Airline costs (incl. AEA DOC estimation)
• Regulation/deregulation
• Marketing & product, demand and forecasting
• Low Cost airlines – business models
• Airline Safety
• Air Traffic Management
• Noise
• Failures and Reliability
• Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO)
• Aviation Sustainability
• Ethics of Civil Aviation (introduction - see guest seminars below for additional material)
Guest Seminars, agreed by invitation, subject to availability:
• Defence operations from “lecture theatre to in-theatre” (Prof Richard Markeivitz - DSTL)
• Regulation of Autonomous aerospace vehicles (Prof Richard Markeivitz - DSTL)
• Ethics of autonomy (Prof James Ladyman – UoB, Department of Philosophy)
• Air transport and its effect on human migration (Prof Sir Malcolm Evans, UoB, Department of Law and Chair of the UN Court of Human Rights)
• Airport operations (David Lees – CEO, Bristol Airport - TBC)
After successful completion of this unit students will be able to:-
Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous sessions, which may include lectures, practical activities supported by drop-in sessions, problem sheets and self-directed exercises.
100% portfolio
The primary text for a large portion of the unit is:
• Doganis, R. Flying Off Course: The Economics of International Airlines, 4th ed., Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2010. [essential reading] A variety of editions of this book are available in the library (http://www.bris.ac.uk/library/ and Search: Doganis, Rigas)
Also recommended:
• Doganis, R. The Airline Business, 2nd ed., Routledge, 2005
• Belobaba, Odoni & Barnhart The Global Airline Industry Wiley-Blackwell 2009
• Wells, Alexander T. Air Transportation, A Management Perspective, 4th ed., Wadsworth, Publishing Company, 1999.
• Roskam: Airplane design Methodology
• Vallor: Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future worth Wanting
• Harris, Pritchard and Rabins: Engineering Ethics
