Aviation Management

Duration: 7 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

In this course, you will receive the knowledge, skills, and abilities to prepare you for the rigors of the MBA program. In order to accomplish this objective, we deliver online work which covers the fundamentals of accounting, finance, data science/economics, management, and marketing. All incoming MBA students, regardless of undergraduate degree, will enroll in the Boot Camp.

Learning Outcomes

• Define critical business terms in a variety of functional areas
• Apply a model of critical thinking to a variety of business problems
• Explain the use of a variety of business tools for business problem-solving
• Recommend a problem-solving approach for business problems

All students take this course regardless of backgroud and prior to registering for any additional courses.

Duration: 7 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

This course reviews the application of accounting to firms in manufacturing, retailing and service industries. The course emphasizes using accounting information to make management decisions including analyzing financial statements, cost analysis, budgeting, and capital investment decisions.

Learning Outcomes

• Critically analyze the role of accounting in business
• Utilize accounting data to make data-backed decisions
• Effectively describe, interpret, and draw conclusions related to accounting issues in both written and oral formats

Duration: 7 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

This course addresses "real world" issues from both theoretical and practical standpoints for most types of businesses, proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. The specific objectives for the course include the following: 1) financial management of the firm with special emphasis on financial planning, capital budgeting, and cost of capital concepts; 2) an analysis of management aspects relating to the inflow and outflow of capital in business enterprise; and 3) practicing financial decision-making through case methods.

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate proficiency in financial management by determining optimal capital structures, creating proforma financial statements, and utilizing ratio analysis for statement assessments
• Apply traditional evaluation models for capital budgeting analyses and estimate the value of various securities issued by corporations
• Assess factors influencing debt versus equity structures and dividend decisions, as well as motives for mergers and acquisitions, ensuring appropriate valuation

Duration: 7 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

A graduate course designed to develop an understanding of leadership styles in management and to further ethical reasoning in the management field.

Learning Outcomes

• Articulate personal and organizational leadership principles
• Demonstrate personal and organizational ethical reasoning
• Cultivate leadership skills
• Evaluate ethical dilemmas and approaches

Duration: 7 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

The course examines the key issues involved in formulating and implementing corporate strategies. These issues are approached from the position of the general manager, who must analyze complex business situations and find realistic solutions to strategic and organizational problems. The course merges various functional areas and provides students with a "total business" perspective on corporate and international strategy. Students also receive an overview of contemporary business and its future.

Learning Outcomes

• Employ current strategic management frameworks for a variety of strategic problems
• Assess strategic opportunities on a company-wide basis
• Adapt an organization's strategic position to the current business environment
• Develop a plan to execute strategic goals in the organization
• Analyze various uses of technology to create, monitor, and control a strategic plan

Duration: 6 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

The study of airport planning, FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS), airport organization and administration, airport operations and administration under FAR Part 139, and landslide/airside access and security.

Learning Outcomes

• Analyze airport ownership and administrative structures
• Differentiate between the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems and previous ways that airports were categorized
• Articulate how FAR Title 14 CFR 139 relates to airport operations management
• Examine airport planning considerations and impact on surrounding communities
• Analyze the roles of airports in the U.S. including airport governance and management along with their economic, political, and social impacts
• Explain the facilities and operations that exist within an airport property

Duration: 6 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

The study of aviation administrative law, aviation liability and insurance, the legal aspects of airports and airspace and aviation labor

Learning Outcomes

• Describe the structure of the Federal Aviation Administration and its associations and interactions with relevant federal and state government bodies on aviation regulation and enforcement
• Explain how the FAA implements the regulatory aspect of airport funding
• Identify how the FAA and other U.S. government organizations operate within the international aviation arena
• Utilize measured operational and managerial practices by identifying applicable domestic and international aviation regulatory allowances and restrictions
• Implement managerial decisions based on aviation labor laws and aviation liability guiding principles
• Differentiate where and how administrative, civil, and criminal law is implemented in the aerospace industry
• Identify legal parameters of buying, selling and leasing of aircraft assets

Duration: 7 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

This course examines the various ways in which information technology can be leveraged by an organization for competitive advantage and addresses the issue of IT strategy and evaluation. Attention is given to strategic implementation of technology, developing and maintaining secure and effective systems, and externally focused systems.

Learning Outcomes

• Assess a business strategy informed and created by IT capabilities
• Evaluate an organization's comprehensive IT architecture and models
• Develop a plan to create an analytics culture within an organization
• Evaluate emerging key issues in the IT industry
• Appraise Google Cloud services as an IT infrastructure technology for business needs

Duration: 7 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

An application of micro- and macroeconomic theories to managerial decision-making including demand and cost analysis, theory of the firm, monetary policy and the Federal Reserve System with an emphasis on quantitative economic analysis.

Learning Outcomes

• Apply and graph key economic models
• Interpret economic indicators and public policies using economic models
• Calculate key economic measures

Duration: 7 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

This course will build students' capability to manage an analytics workforce, lead analytics team/project, and operate as an analytics translator. The course will introduce students to the principles of evidence-based management and analytics. This involves the appraising of scientific evidence and the processing of information and data for managerial decision-making. The course will also equip students with skills for gathering primary local evidence for problems and managerial decisions.

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate knowledge of principles of evidence-based management and the analytic techniques for processing data/information for insight
• Acquire and evaluate scientific evidence for problem resolution and managerial decisions
• Develop and present an analytical project for decisions in organizations
• Utilize the insights from data and analytical outputs to problems and managerial decisions
• Articulate evidence effectively to influence organizational decisions

Duration: 7 weeks ⎸ Credit Hours: 3

A graduate marketing seminar to provide a comprehensive knowledge of marketing strategy and marketing program development. Students will be expected to read widely in the marketing literature. They will solve business problems using case analyses and/or simulation. It is recommended that this "capstone" course be taken near the end of the student's program of study.

Learning Outcomes

• Utilize the marketing strategy framework by employing the strategic marketing management process
• Articulate the importance of creating customer value through customer centricity and the significance of consumer behavior in the buying process
• Evaluate the market through segmentation, targeting, and positioning strategies
• Assess brand, promotion, pricing, and distribution strategies