Aircraft Maintenance Management MSc

Course overview

This is a new Master’s degree for aircraft maintenance professionals in partnership with A J Walter Aviation – global leaders in the supply, repair and lease of commercial spare parts. The MSc in Aircraft Maintenance Management is for experienced aviation industry personnel who wish to enhance their career progression in the maintenance management field. This course will help them improve their knowledge of the complex disciplines required to enable full understanding of the various technical, operational and financial pressures impacting on flight operations.

 

Graduates will be prepared for positions of responsibility within airlines and specialist operators, such as police and search and rescue helicopters, maintenance and repair organisations, aviation authorities and defence forces.

Course content

The course consists of a number of independent modules, each of which runs over three days.  All students must attend and pass one module (free of charge) as an introduction before they are accepted onto the course.  To qualify for an MSc, a student needs to complete a further eight taught modules and successfully complete a major project of relevance to their future career. Students who complete the taught part of the course only can be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma (intro module + 8 more) or a Postgraduate Certificate (intro module + 4 more).

Core Modules

• Airline Maintenance
• Engineering Maintenance Systems
• Airworthiness
• Safety by Design
• Active Safety Management
• Quality Assurance
• Airline Operations
• Fleet Planning 

Elective Modules

• Crisis Management
• Human Resource Management
• Airports and Ground Handling
• Air Transport Economics

Teaching and assessment

Teaching

Modules are held regularly in London, Dubai and Cologne and elsewhere on an occasional basis.  Some of the modules are held in collaboration with Lufthansa Technical Training and students can choose, with Programme Director's approval, some of their modules as an Elective Module on the AMM programme.  This MSc in Aircraft Maintenance Management follows the format of the well-established MSc Air Transport Management and MSc Air Safety Management.

 

Assessment

Students are assessed through coursework, examinations and a final dissertation. The pass mark is 50 percent in each case.  Students attaining an average mark of 65% for both modules and dissertation will be passed with Merit. Those achieving 70% will be passed with Distinction.

Selection policy

The normal requirement is Category B or C Aircraft Maintenance Engineer’s Licence or military equivalent, or a first degree (minimum 2.1) in an appropriate subject.  All students must have relevant aviation work experience at professional level, normally for a minimum of two years.

 

Applicants who satisfy the basic admissions requirements are invited to attend a free-of-charge introductory module from the list of the course modules. Final acceptance on to the course follows after satisfactory completion of this module.

 

English Language Requirement 

For those students whose first language is not English, the following qualifications are also required:

• IELTS: 6.5
• TOEFL (internet-based): 100

Professional placement and study abroad

Fees & bursaries

Fees for part-time study:

• £9,000 UK/EU
• £9,600 International

These fees cover for study up to 3 years. An additional fee of £500 pa is required for study in the fourth and fifth year.

Additional information

A J Walter Aviation

 

Christopher Whiteside, Managing Director of A J Walter Aviation said, when announcing his Company's financial support for this course:

"The MSc Aircraft Maintenance Management is for the experienced aviation industry professional.  It benefits mid-career progression in the field by improving knowledge of the complex disciplines required to enable full understanding of the various technical, operational and financial pressures impacting on flight operations throughout the aircraft maintenance programme.

"By working with The City University to provide this professional qualification for industry colleagues we believe we are contributing effectively to ensuring that our industry is prepared to meet the challenges that the next 75 years will bring - and it gives us, as a business, the opportunity to give something back to the industry in which we have thrived."

A J Walter Aviation supports this course because of City’s long-standing reputation within the field of aviation education. The University has been providing education in the field of aeronautics since 1909 and offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research courses in aeronautical engineering and related topics. Today the University is renowned for its international focus, the employability of its graduates and its links with business and professions.

 

Graduate Destinations

• Licenced Engineer, Emiri Flight Abu Dhabi
• Project Superintendent, Kuwait Airways
• Engineering Manager, Air Canada
• Performance Engineer, Air Botnia, Finland
• Chief Engineer, Flying Wing, Bahrain
• Dept. Head Eng Licencing, CAA, Gatwick
• Engineer, Air Zimbabwe
• Senior Engineer, Cyprus Airways
• Shift Manager, BA, Gatewick
• Quality Enineering Manager, Shannon Aerospace
• De-icing Superintendent, Finnair
• Dept Head, Uganda CAA
• Chief Engineer, United Eagle Airways, Shuangliu, China
• Senior Investigator, Airclaims, LHR
• Superintendent Engineer, Tanzania Airways
• SVP Tech. Ops,  GE Commercial Finance Aviation, Asia
• Engineering Manager, Precisionair, Tanzania
• Dept Head of Safety, Tanzania CAA
• Engineering Consultant, Portugal
• Head Engineering Licencing  CAA, Gatwick
• Service Engineer Rolls Royce Commercial Engines
• Chief Engineer, Cyprus Police Air Wing
• Airbus Manager, Emirates
• Inspector, Tanzanian CAA
• Manager Quality and Standards, CAA
• Engineer, Kenya Airways, Amsterdam
• Engineering Consultant, Nigeria
• Licenced Engineer, Cyprus Airways
• Engineering Manager Cathay Pacific Express , Hong Kong
• Safety Engineer, RAF
• Powerplant Engineer, Thomas Cook Airlines , Manchester
• Engineering Analyst, Boeing, Seattle, USA
• Air Safety Inspector, BA
• Engineering Manager, Netherlands
• Chief Engineer, Brunei Shell

Academic Technology Approval Scheme

 

As of 30 November 2007, changes were made to the immigration rules which meant that anyone studying certain subject areas at doctoral (PhD) level or for some Masters-level courses has to get additional clearance before they can obtain or extend a UK student visa. 

For more information, please refer to the student centre:

http://www.city.ac.uk/studentcentre/international/current-students/ATAS.html

 

Working with the Armed Forces

This course is compatible with The MoD's Enhanced Learning Credits Administration Service (ELCAS) - an initiative to promote lifelong learning amongst members of the Armed Forces.

If you are/have been a member of the Armed Forces, you could be entitled to financial support to take this course.