M.S. in Technology

Aviation Management and Human Factors concentration

The focus of this concentration is on preparing graduates for a career in the aviation industry or as the foundation for further advanced study. The program is designed for flexibility, permitting the student to select a combination of courses in a technical area and supporting area to meet individual goals.

Students have a choice of selecting a thesis option (12 semester hours of core courses plus 21 semester hours of selected course work) or an applied project option (nine semester hours of core courses plus 24 semester hours of selected course work). The detailed design of the graduate student's total program requirements (33 semester hours) with the selection of the required courses will be the responsibility of the student's Supervisory Committee Chair and committee members. The defining guideline for the AMT Program will be to match the student's specific career goals and objectives, as well as a balanced curriculum that can be achieved in a reasonable time and in accordance with a known course-offering schedule.

 

What You Can Do With This Degree

Graduates of this program are provided with technical and professional skills for use in leadership positions in industry and education.

 

Thesis Option

  • Core courses: 12 semester hours
  • Selected course work: 21 semester hours
  • Total minimum for degree completion: 33 semester hours

Research methods courses

  • AMT 599 Thesis
  • ITM 549 Research Techniques and Applications or equivalent
  • PSY 530 Statistics or equivalent

 

Applied Project Option

  • Core courses: 9 semester hours
  • Selected course work: 24 semester hours
  • Total minimum for degree completion: 33 semester hours

Research methods courses

  • AMT 593 Applied Project
  • ITM 549 Research Techniques and Applications or equivalent
  • PSY 530 Statistics or equivalent

 

Courses Associated With This Degree

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AMT 520 Airline Pricing and Yield Management

  • Description: Airline economics at the operating level; historical and current operational strategies; demand, traffic, price, yield, revenues, and costs.

AMT 521 Air Transportation Regulations

  • Description: Reviews evolutionary history of government regulations. Explores alternatives for economic, safety, social, and administrative regulatory reform in air transportation.

AMT 522 Aviation Law

  • Description: Examines the U.S. legal system with a focus on the aviation perspective, administrative agencies, FAA enforcement, and case law.

AMT 523 Intermodal Transportation Management

  • Description: Systems theory applied to intermodal transportation networks. Surveys air and ground transportation infrastructure, institutional frameworks, and intermediaries promoting connections between modes.

AMT 524 Airport Management Operations

  • Description: Overview of planning, funding, and development of airport facilities; legal and ethical considerations associated with airport management operations.

AMT 525 Airport Planning and Design

  • Description: Completion of various phases of airport master planning process. Provides guidance for logical and timely development of airports. Project work groups assigned.

AMT 526 Aviation Labor Relations

  • Description: Investigates labor-management relations in the aviation industry, including laws, unionism, collective bargaining, public sector relationships, grievance procedures, and conflict.

AMT 527 Airline Management Strategies

  • Description: Since deregulation, airlines have undergone profound changes through mergers, consolidation, and acquisition. In-depth look at airline management strategies for the 21st century.

AMT 528 International Aviation

  • Description: Major issues of international aviation, historical review of institutional framework. Bilateral route agreements, freedom versus sovereignty, current legal and political arrangements.

AMT 529 Fixed-Base Operations Management

  • Description: Examines FBO role in the national aviation system. Organization of flight line operations, aircraft maintenance, and administration for multiple aircraft types.

AMT 532 Managing Diversity in Aviation

  • Description: Examines group identity and cognitive styles, cross-cultural issues, language and diversity, and effects of aviation culture on management of diversity.

AMT 541 Aviation Physiology

  • Description: Surveys human physiology and human performance principles related to modern aircraft and aircraft systems operating in multiple environments.

AMT 542 Human Factors in Automation

  • Description: Examines human factors issues associated with automation. Includes impact of automation design, workload, stress, and system complexity on human operators.

AMT 545 Human Factors in Aviation

  • Description: Overview of human role in aviation. Issues, problems of unsafe acts and attitudes in human behavior. Human engineering capabilities and limitations.

AMT 546 Crew Resource Management/LOFT

  • Description: Evaluates in-depth, multicrew coordination issues for commercial aviation pilots. Stresses importance of critical thinking, decision making, integrated resource utilization.

AMT 549 Applied Human Factors Research

  • Description: Aviation human factors research principles applied and tested in operational settings. Group projects assigned in conjunction with industry partners.