BSc (Hons) in

Aviation Operations and Systems

航空營運及系統學(榮譽)理學士

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Program Leader: Prof. Xiaowen Fu

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Entrance Requirement of the Programme

- An Associate Degree or Higher Diploma in a relevant discipline or

equivalent qualifications.

Intake Information

- No. of Intake: 40

Entrance Information

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Strong Growth in Aviation:The 3rd runway: Prediction by 2030 - No. of Jobs will be increased from 73,000 to 141,000

- No. of Passengers will be increased from 59.9M to 97M per year.

- No. of Air Cargo will be increased from 4.12 M tonnes to 8.9 M

tonnes per year.

Statistical Data

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Aviation Industries

What is your Impression of Aviation ??

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Aviation Industries (A wide spectrum of Career !!)

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Airline* Private Air JetAirport*

Aircraft Maintenance*

Air Traffic

Control*

Airline Catering*

Air Cargo*

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Aviation Industries

Airlines: >100 in HK

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Aircraft Catering:3 Aircraft Caterers combined capacity of 158,000 meals per day

Aviation Industries

Cathay Pacific Catering

Services (HK)

Lufthansa Service Hong

Kong (LSG)

Gate Gourmet Hong Kong

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Air Cargo:- Handle 4.12 million tonnes of freight

- 8 Air Cargo Committees:1. DHL Aviation (HK) Ltd. (DHL)

2. Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd. (HACTL)

3. Cathay Pacific Services Ltd. (CPSL)

4. Asia Airfreight Terminal Co Ltd. (AAT)

5. Hong Kong Association of Freight Forwarding

and Logistics Ltd. (HAFFA)

6. Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department

(C&ED)

7. Chu Kong Air-Sea Union Transportation Co Ltd.

(CKSA)

8. Carrier Liaison Group (CLG)

Aviation Industries

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Aircraft Maintenance:- China Aircraft Services Ltd (CASL)

- Hong Kong Aero Engine Service Ltd (HAESL)

- Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Ltd

(HAECO)

Aviation Industries

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Aviation Industries

Air Traffic Control

Air Traffic Control

Simulator (at ISE)

Shifting market power

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Source: Boeing &

ACI 2018

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Leading Airports in 2018

Source: ACI , March 2019

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Leading Airports in 2018

Source: ACI , March 2019

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Introduction to

Aviation Operations and Systems

Programme

What is Aviation Operations and Systems?

Aviation Operations and Systems concerns:

- Design, development, planning, and scheduling.

- Implementation and control of various processes, operations, and

systems in aviation and related industries.

Knowledge and Skills:

- Engineering, management, and social sciences.

- Optimization, prediction, and evaluation.

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Programme Aims

Students will study

- Industrial Engineering fundamentals and theory used in

aviation operations and systems.

Graduates

- Competitive professionals in aviation operations and

systems for the local and global aviation industry.

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Work Integrated Education (WIE)

A structured and measurable learning experience which takes place

in an organizational context relevant to a student’s future profession,

or to the development of generic skills that will be valuable in that

profession. It is included in the programme to enable students to

obtain a better understanding of real-life work experience relevant to

the discipline of studies they pursue as well as to further enhance

their all-round development.

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Industrial Center (IC) Training

This is of 4 weeks duration and is undertaken in the University’s

Industrial Centre. This 4 weeks compose of workshop-based hands-

on activities and group-based integrated project.

- Airframe fabrication

- Logistics automation

- Aviation safety and human-factors

- Project Management

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Progression curriculum (Normal)

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Year 1 (33 credits + 4 IC training credits)

Semester 1 (16 credits + 2 IC) Semester 2 (17 credits + 2 IC)

Introduction to Aviation Industries

(ISE3012)2 Total Quality Management (ISE404) 3

Data Management in Aviation

Industries (ISE3013)3 Systems Modeling and Simulation

(ISE3004) 3

Warehousing Technologies and

Management (ISE3014) 3 Engineering Costing and Evaluation

(ISE431)3

Applications of Operations Research

in Aviation (ISE3015)3 Airport Management (LGT4012) 3

Professional Communication in

Chinese (CLC3241P)2 Professional Communication in

English (ELC3521)2

CAR I# 3 CAR II# 3

Integrated Aviation Systems Project

(IC383)2 IC Integrated Aviation Systems Project

(IC383) – cont’d2 IC

Progression curriculum (Normal)

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Year 2 (33 credits)

Semester 1 (18 credits) Semester 2 (15 credits)

Service-Learning# 3 Airline Strategy and Management

(LGT4800)3

Fleet and Flight Management

(ISE4022)3 Aviation Safety and Security

Management (ISE3016)3

Society and the Engineer (ENG3004) 3 Project Management (ENG4001) 3

Airport Logistics Engineering

(ISE4015)3 Elective 2 3

Elective 1 3 - -

Individual Project (ISE4008) 3 Individual Project (ISE4008) – cont’d 3

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Elective Subjects

- Inflight Service Management

- Environmental Management for Travel and Hospitality Industry

- Mobile Technologies for Logistics Systems

- Green Legislation and Supply Chain Logistics

- Aircraft Service Engineering and Logistics

- Risk Management in Aviation

- Quality Management

- Air Flight Operations Management

- Airline Operations and Revenue Management

- Information Systems for Logistics Management

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Scholarships

- HSBC Overseas Scholarship

- HSBC Hong Kong Scholarship

- Chiang Chen Overseas Exchange Scholarship

- The Innovation and Technology Scholarship

- Professor Leung Tin-pui Memorial Scholarship

- Dr. Ng Tat-lun Memorial Scholarship

- President Emeritus Professor Poon Chung-kwong Scholarship

- more and more …

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Challenges

Aircraft Maintenance Company

Hong Kong Aero Engine Services Ltd (HAESL)

- Design operations flow

Considerations:

- Production throughput, Costing, Bottleneck, etc.

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Planning, Controlling, and Management

Crew Scheduling- Staff On-Off duties

- Determine Staff schedule

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Aircraft Scheduling- Minimize idling

- Maximize profit

Disruption Management

Typhoon Traffic Congestion Foggy Plane Crash

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Opportunities to understand Aviation Industries

Company Visits

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Final Year Project

China Aircraft Services Ltd-Improve Space Utilization

Internship Hong Kong Airport Authority

Estimate arrival time at Immigration Customer service level

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Sharing Sessions –Aviation Industries

Pilot

Cathay Pacific

Engineering Trainee

Cathay Pacific

Assistant Project Supervisor

LSG SKY CHEFS

Professional Recognition

The programme is going through the accreditation by the

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport of Hong Kong

(CILTHK).

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Career Prospects

- planning engineers

- systems engineers aircraft project engineers

- operations engineers

- materials management officers

- flight dispatch officers

- client service executives

- quality assurance engineers

- passenger services officers

- fleet technical engineers

- aviation business analysts

- inventory management analysts

- cargo services coordinators, crew operations officers, revenue

management officers, more and more …

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Thank You

End

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