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 & Exploitation
LEARNING 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 INVOLVED
Prof. M. van Tooren
Prof. J.A Mulder
Prof. B.A.C. Ambrosius
Prof. 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 E
Practical 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
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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 & Exploitation
LEARNING 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 Tooren
Prof. J.A. Mulder
Prof. B.A.C. Ambrosius
Prof. R.Curran
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