BP070 - Bachelor of Applied Science (Aviation)

Plan: BP070P6 - Bachelor of Applied Science (Aviation)
Campus: City Campus

Program delivery and structure

Approach to learning and assessment
Work integrated learning
Program structure
Program transition plan

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Approach to learning and assessment

Teaching:

Overall, the teaching style you experience will be appropriate to the type of the course you are studying and to achieve the graduate capabilities designed into your program of study, thereby ensuring that you are employable when you graduate.  You will be treated as an adult learner: you will take responsibility for your own learning in an adult and independent way.

Several courses in the program are delivered online, rather than on-campus, and you are likely to find that other courses transition to online delivery as you progress through the program.

You will be exposed to the effective use of educational technology, which will enable you to access resources so that you become an ‘anytime’ learner.

The styles of teaching you will see will therefore be varied, and will include all or some of the following.

• Classroom: which will include lectures and less formal teaching.  You are encouraged to make this environment bi-directional by asking questions and seeking feedback from your lecturer;
• Problem-based Learning: where you may be in a smaller tutorial groups with the aim of applying your knowledge through problem solving, simulating the professional work environment;
• Laboratories: where you can apply your knowledge with hands-on experimentation or simulation.  You gain exposure to physical equipment and learn experimental technique;
• Intensive workshops: as in professional practice, some learning may take place over a brief but intensive period.  For example, your lecturer may be an expert in a certain discipline, but cannot attend for several hours a week over the duration of a semester.  Your classes and support tutorials may be scheduled over 5 days.  There will be opportunity for later interaction with your lecturer or a tutor.
• Online and distance learning: depending on your location, you may study some or all of your courses at a distance.  This means you will access courseware through hard copy sent to you or by way of RMIT’s online resources.  Learning guides will lead you through each course, and you will communicate with your ‘lecturer’ by email or other similar means through online learning facilities for each course.

Learning Activities:

As a student you will be exposed to not just teaching, but to a range of teaching and learning activities.  Indeed, your interests are furthered by your own engagement in learning activities. This means that you have a responsibility for your own learning.  You will therefore be involved in learning activities, many of which will be outside of class contact time.  For many activities – even if you are a distance student - you will working in teams: an environment which will simulate how you will work as a professional.  These activities will develop many of the interpersonal skills you need in order to work effectively in the professional environment.  These activities will include:

• Lectures, classes, and/or directed reading: these activities introduce you to essential content. They may also lead you to develop or improve certain appropriate skills;
• Assignments and projects: these may be problem based or research based, and may be undertaken in teams or individually.  A written report is usually required.  Assignments and projects provide students with opportunities to develop specified capabilities and also to demonstrate the level to which they have developed them;
• Work Integrated Learning: you will have the opportunity to take learning activities which are closely linked to industry.  If you are employed, then your final year project may be based in your workplace, solving a problem of direct relevance to your employer;
• Major project: where you propose, plan and execute a major project which addresses and solves a problem relevant to your studies or career aspirations.  The project may be industry based, whether or not you are employed in the industry, and is the final stage of preparing you for the workplace;
• Seminars: where you will report verbally to a student and staff group – again this is practice for the professional workplace.  Seminars will give students a specific forum for putting into practice their communication skills, and improving them through use and feedback. Seminars also provide a professionally appropriate platform for developing and exercising skills of critical analysis;
• Field trips: you will have the opportunity to visit various industrial establishments to see how they function and what they do.  Field trips allow students to mesh their conceptual understanding with real application appropriate to the industry.  Viewed in the light of application, the conceptual basis can be greatly strengthened;
• Reflective writing: where you give yourself time to consider the learning processes and outcomes you have just experienced.  You may consider and document questions such as: What have I learned by doing? How my previous ideas/attitudes had to change? What is still causing me difficulties? What do I still need to learn? What connections can be made with other knowledge?. Reflection can also be used to record feelings, difficulties, ideas and inspirations.

Assessment

To ensure that you have achieved the required learning outcomes and developed critical capabilities you must be assessed. Assessment is designed to give you opportunities to demonstrate your capabilities.  You will find that the forms of assessment used may be different for each course, as the assessment you receive must be appropriate to the objectives of each course.

The assessment you complete is critical to the success of your degree program, and to your future success in the workplace.  The Graduate Capabilities designed into your program (a pre-requisite for your success) are satisfied only if the Learning Outcomes specified for each course are known to have been satisfied.  Assessment does this, and because of the different types of courses, assessment may be expected to take different forms, such as:

• Examinations: an individual form of assessment where you have the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to explain fundamental principles and solve problems;
• Assignment and projects: which may be done individually or in groups.  This method may also be used to enable you to demonstrate your ability to work alone or as a member of a team;
• Reflective journals: where you pause to consider what you have learnt, along with the easy and hard issues associated with that learning;
• Assessed tutorials: a form of in-class test, which may be done individually or as a team;
• Reports on site visits, guest presentations from industry practitioners; or work undertaken in a laboratory: in all cases these provide opportunities to develop skills in critical analysis of information, and presentation of this information and relevant conclusions in the form of written reports;
• Aviation Project capstone thesis: this thesis demonstrates that you are able to report a significant project, from the planning phases right through to completion where conclusions and recommendations are made;
• Self-assessment and peer-assessment: for assessment activities such as seminars you will assess yourself or your own group; or assess the work of other groups.  This is part of equipping you to become more independent in your own learning and assessing your own and others’ performance.

Most of the assessment you complete (the exception is exams) will enable your lecturer to provide you with feedback on your strong and weak points.  This will enable you to improve your performance in the future.  Speak to your lecturer if you are not receiving helpful feedback.

If you have a long term medical condition, disability and/or other form of disadvantage it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

For further information please refer to the Assessment and exams page of the student website.

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Work integrated learning

RMIT is committed to providing students with an education that strongly links formal learning with workplace experience.  As a student enrolled in an RMIT program you will:

• undertake and be assessed on a structured activity that allows you to learn, apply and  demonstrate your professional or vocational practice
• interact with industry and community when undertaking this activity
• complete an activity in a work context or situation that may include teamwork with other students from different disciplines
• underpin your learning with feedback from interactions and contexts distinctive to workplace experiences

In this program, you will be doing specific course(s) that focus on work integrated learning (WIL). You will be assessed on professional or vocational work in a work place setting (real or simulated) and receive feedback from those involved in your industry.

Work integrated learning has been incorporated into the following compulsory (core) courses:

• AERO2431 Aviation Industry Project
• AERO2380 Aviation Quality Systems
• AERO2410 Airline Operations

In these courses, industry practitioners are engaged in teaching or project supervision, and assessment or feedback on student performance of tasks that are indicative of work that a graduate will do as an employee in the aviation industry. In the course AERO2431 Aviation Industry Project in the final year of the program, you will conduct an independent research capstone project. This project may be undertaken either within RMIT, or within an external company in Australia or elsewhere. If you are employed, then your final year project may be based in your workplace, solving a problem of direct relevance to your employer. In addition to the dedicated WIL course listed above, there are other core courses that provide WIL experiences in the program, particularly through the use of industry practitioners and feedback.

In addition to these courses you are encorraged to undertake 10 weeks of aviation work experience supervised by a qualified aviation practitioner. If your work experience meets the requirements it may be assessed concurrently with your work experience as part of AERO2582 Aviation Professional  Experience. 

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Program Structure

To graduate you must complete the following. Please note, all courses may not be available each semester.
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Year One of Program
Complete the following Seven (7) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Managing the Engineering Environment 12 AERO2409 City Campus Introduction to Aircraft 12 AERO2376 City Campus Introduction to Aviation 12 AERO2377 City Campus Aviation Mathematics 12 MATH2314 City Campus Aviation Quality Systems 12 AERO2380 City Campus Business Information Systems 12 ISYS2056 City Campus Aircraft Systems 12 AERO2378 City Campus
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from:
University Elective
AND
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Year Two of Program
Complete the following Six (6) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Aviation Industry Environment 12 AERO2381 City Campus Airport/Airline Operations 12 AERO2383 City Campus Human Factors in Aviation 12 AERO2379 City Campus Airport Planning and Management 12 AERO2382 City Campus Airline Operations 12 AERO2410 City Campus Sustainable Aviation and the Environment 12 AERO2456 City Campus
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
Business University Elective
Language University Elective
Mathematics University Elect
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
University Elective
AND
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Year Three of Program
Complete the following Five (5) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Aircraft Maintenance Management 12 AERO2457 City Campus Aviation Strategy in the Global Context 12 AERO2408 City Campus Aviation Project Management 12 AERO2407 City Campus Aviation Industry Project 12 AERO2431 City Campus Aviation Safety and Security Systems 12 AERO2384 City Campus
AND
Select and Complete Two (2) Course from the following Options list:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Aviation Professional Experience 12 AERO2582 City Campus Air Cargo Management and Operations 12 AERO2426 City Campus Aircraft Airworthiness 12 AERO2459 City Campus Airport Design 12 AERO2454 City Campus Incident and Accident Investigation 12 AERO2570 City Campus Contemporary Aviation Studies 12 AERO2569 City Campus Unmanned Aerial System Operations 12 AERO2481 City Campus Managing the Air Traffic Environment 12 AERO2631 City Campus
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any (not previously completed):
Business University Elective
Language University Elective
Mathematics University Elect
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Program transition plan

Very Important: This plan is being phased out. 
  
BP070P6 - Bachelor of Applied Science (Aviation) plan has been discontinued and will no longer accept new students after Semester 2 2022. The plan will be taught out to current students until semester 2, 2026. If you are unable to complete your program by the end of 2026, you may consider applying to other programs within RMIT subject to entrance requirements. You may also consider applying to the new plan: 

BP070P23 Bachelor of Applied Science (Aviation)
  
For more information and advice on your enrolment, please contact your program manager, Chrystal Zhang or Nick Bardell (chrystal.zhang@rmit.edu.au or nick.bardell@rmit.edu.au).

Program Amendment 2021

Effective Semester 1 2021, the following changes will take place in this program. The below table is for transitioning purposes only and not necessaily course equivalancies. All credits gained prior to these amendments (semester 1 2021) will count towards the amended program plan. 

Course(s) no longer offered	Credit Points	Course(s) added to the program	Credit Points
AERO2389 Aviation Commerical Revenue Development AERO2386 Advanced Crew Resource Management AERO2571 Meterology  AERO2573 Flight Operations	12 CP each	AERO2631 Managing the Air Traffic Environment	12 CP

Students who require enrolment advice should contact their program manager. 

Program Amendment 2016 and 2017

In 2016 and 2017 this program underwent minor changes in structure. The amended structures were implemented from Semester 1 2016 and from Semester 1 2017 for all students. All credits gained prior to these amendments will count towards the amended program plan.

The following Table advises students who have failed an old course as to the substitute course they should complete.

Course(s) no longer offered	Substitute course(s)
Course	Title	CP	Course	Title	CP
AERO2248	Engineering, Society and Sustainability	12	ISYS2056	Business Computing 1	12
MATH2200	Statistics 1	12	MATH2314	Aviation Mathematics	12
OMGT1082	Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management	12		Approved business, language or mathematics elective	12

If you need any transitional or enrolment advice, please contact your Program Manager.

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