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CURRICULAR UNIT - MATHEMATICS I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042201

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The general objectives of this initial curricular unit of Math is the review of calculus in R, the analysis, characterisation and graphical representation of real functions of real variable and the introduction to differential calculus. At the end of this unit students should acquire the following mathematical skills necessary for formulating and solving problems posed in the context of the degree:

  • - Correct use of vocabulary and mathematical symbol;
  • - Correct calculation in R, namely the resolution of linear equations and systems of linear equations using matrices;
  • - Knowledge of the concepts of continuity, limits and derivatives;
  • - Application of the study of functions and their graphs to interpretation and problem solving;
  • - Application of differential calculus in the study of real functions of real variable;
  • - Interpretation and critique of the results in the context of the problem;
  • - Communication of concepts, reasoning and ideas with clarity and logical rigour.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

ARRAYS

  • - Definition and properties
  • - Operations with matrices,
  • - Elementary Operations, condensation and characteristic of an array
  • - Application of arrays in classification and solving systems of linear equations: Gauss and Jordan

REAL FUNCTIONS of REAL VARIABLE

  • - General information on real functions of real variable
  • - Notion of boundary (Cauchy definition and definition of Heine); lateral limits; properties and operations
  • - Continuous functions: definition, properties and extension by continuity
  • - Theorems of Bolzano, Weierstrass and the continuity of inverse function

DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS in R

  • - Derivative of a function: definition and geometrical physical interpretation
  • - Lateral derivatives; differentiability; derivation rules; notion of differential
  • - Theorems of Rolle, Lagrange, Cauchy
  • - Cauchy and rule indeterminations
  • - Higher-order Derivatives
  • - Monotony and extremes of functions. Scoops and inflection points. Asymptotes
  • - Representation of the graph of a function

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042202

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

This course aims to give students an introduction to the main theoretical foundations of management, accompanied by the respective exemplification and practical skills training. 

The syllabus seek to awaken the student, systematically, to the reality of management of organizations with which they live daily. On the other hand, it is intended that the frequency of discipline be useful to students, particularly those who are or aspire to perform management functions and wish to deepen their knowledge in matters of general management. 

Furthermore, we intend to further sensitize students to the basics of entrepreneurship and the creation and development of a business.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

The contents of the program are developed based on the following assumptions:

  • - A activity "management" plays a major role in society
  • - A Management activity is exercised at any level and in any organization
  • - A Importance of functioning of organizations as a means to exercise the functions of management.

There is no management-not people, so it becomes necessary to recognize the importance of this strategic asset in the individual optical and group.

Main topics:

  • 1. Management and its evolution
  • 2. The company and the environment
  • 2. Planning
  • 3. Organization, Process and Structures
  • 4. Organization of Culture
  • 5. Internationalization of businesses
  • 6. Ethics and Social Responsibility
  • 7. Entrepreneurship and business creation

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - ACCOUNTING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042203

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Knowledge:

  • Identify financial accounting as a science that allows to highpoint the patrimonial value of companies in a sustainable way.

Skills:

  • Control of the terminology and accounting technique used, which means should be used and the types of information to be provided.

Skills to accuary:

  • Faced with the reality of companies, dealing with different patrimonial facts that involved record them in order to identify the impacts on their economic and financial structure.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Introduction:

  • - The accounting evolution and their standardization.
  • - Definition and accounting types.
  • - fundamental International Accounting Standard
  • - conceptual framework

Fundamental Concepts:

  • - The patrimony.
  • - The inventory and balance.
  • - Patrimony Facts.
  • - Fundamental equation of accounting.
  • - The chart of accounts
  • - The accounting records methods
  • - Accounting entries (software simulation).
  • - The journal and the ledger.
  • - Balance sheets.
  • - Accounting systems.
  • - The Financial Statements

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - COMPUTING I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042204

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Computing 1 aims at the main skills needed to the manipulation of information and communication technologies in a professional context, explaining the principal knowledge and techniques necessary for an efficient and effective use of these technologies.

At the end of the curricular unit the student should be able to produce the digital documents needed in various units across the course and in their professional lives. To this end, emphasis is given to independent and assertive use of information technologies to produce contents in digital form in particular:

  • - advanced use of document editor - MS-WORD
  • - advanced use of a spreadsheet - MS-EXCEL
  • - the use of a Database Management System - MS-ACCESS

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to information technology

  • 1.1. Hardware concepts
  • 1.2. storage formats

2. Software for the production of documents - MS-WORD

  • 2.1. pages setup
  • 2.2. sections
  • 2.3. styles
  • 2.4. images, graphics and other objects
  • 2.5. tables
  • 2.6. symbols, equations
  • 2.7. references
  • 2.8. automatic indexes
  • 2.9. mail merge

3. Spreadsheet application - MS-EXCEL

  • 3.1. calculation with Excel. Functions
  • 3.2. mathematical and statistical use
  • 3.3. charts in EXCEL
  • 3.4. validation and data protection
  • 3.5. integration with WORD

4. Database management software - ACCESS

  • 4.1. Relational database model
  • 4.2. tables and relations
  • 4.3. queries
  • 4.4. forms
  • 4.5. reports

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - FLIGHT SAFETY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042207

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Flight Safety Main objectives:

  • 1. to provide relevant information based on the area of safety and flight safety.
  • 2. to provide expertise on issues related to the area of ​​specialization.
  • 3. to provide tools for hazard analysis, risks and consequences inherent to the business.
  • 4. to allow direct contact with past events, accidents and incidents in commercial aviation.
  • 5. to provide general knowledge on safety management systems.

Students should develop the following skills:

  • 1. to understand the need for a safety management system in any company.
  • 2. to identify, distinguish and analyse hazards, risks and consequences, and how to mitigate / mitigate its effects.
  • 3. to identify key stakeholders in flight safety.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Introduction to flight safety:

  • - presentation, legal context and definitions
  • - safety vs. security
  • - safety concept evolution
  • - incident/accidents investigation models
  • - SMS - safety management systems
  • - safety occurrence reporting systems
  • - accident investigation
  • - safety occurrences causes and contributory factors: HF; technical; procedures, etc.
  • - mid air collisions / runway / incursions / runway excursions
  • - introduction to aviation security - definitions and concepts.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - AERONAUTICAL SEMINAR

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042206

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

This curricular unit aims to expose students to a set of structuring themes in air transport, promoting the wide debate on specialized subjects. It also aims to help instil in students the need to have an overview of commercial aviation, integrating the various areas around air transport operations. It is intended to develop in students oral and writing skills to facilitate the preparation of written and oral presentations.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

The syllabus is annually specified by the teacher, in collaboration with the course director, having in mind the most relevant topics in the aviation. Guests of the airline industry with strong experience occasionally contribute to discussions and debates on pressing issues of commercial aviation, in different domains: air transport,  airports, meteo, air navigation, handing, safety & security, maintenance and personnel training.


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CURRICULAR UNIT - TECHNICAL ENGLISH

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042205

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Objectives and competencies

Technical English has 3 objectives:

  • - to guarantee the indispensable basic knowledge in the areas of vocabulary and structure of the English language.
  • - to supply specific vocabulary related to the area of studies.
  • - to provide knowledge on the grammar structures and sentences relevant for the future professional area.

The student should develop the following skills:

  • - participating by listening and speaking, in dialogues typical of his/her future professional area.
  • - understanding technical texts of his/her area of studies.
  • - writing reports on typical situations of his/her professional area.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Vocabulary

Vocabulary relevant for the specific area of aeronautics, acquired in the study of real texts and talks on various pertinent topics.

  • - Highs and lows of working in the airline industry
  • - Air rage
  • - Airport security
  • - Aircraft components
  • - Aircraft and avionics mechanics and technicians – job profile
  • - Baggage handler – job profile
  • - Flight attendant – job profile
  • - Commercial airline pilot – job profile
  • - Airport manager – job profile
  • - Airports and airport management

2. Language Structure/Functions

Relevant grammar structures and linguistic patterns determined by the tasks of reading, listening, speaking, writing and reflecting on professional area topics

  • - Interrogative sentences
  • - Present, past and future tenses
  • - Conditional tenses
  • - Reported speech
  • - Passive voice

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - OPERATIONAL INVESTIGATION 

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042208

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The discipline of Operational Research intends to endow the students for the resolution of complex problems of the real life in the most several areas, identifying components that can be formulated as models or associations of models, of among the vast repertoire of tools that integrate the domain of the operational investigation and to use software in the resolution of some problems.   For such the contents will be exposed following a method of exposition. Besides the algebraic resolution of the exercises proposed in the classes, the realization of will of computational is foreseen, using appropriate software. It will be presented to the student problems/work that must solve by him. Qualify the students for the acquisition of knowledge that enables it to identify problems of several areas that can be placed, and to place them under the mathematical formulation of the lineal programming. Use techniques to solve these problems, in a graphical way or through the Simplex Method and its variants. Know how to analyze the results within the sensibility and to do reoptimization using matrices methods, the duality concept and by means of reading of output of EXCEL and Qm for Windons. Identify transport problems and of assignment, using the correct procedures to solve them.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Operations Research

  • 1.1. Mathematics formulation and optimization
  • 1.2. Methodology of IO

2. Linear Programming (PL)

  • 2.1. introduction
  • 2.2. Formulation and Graphical Method
  • 2.3. Glossary and Properties
  • 2.4. Graphical Solution to a linear programming problems
  • 2.5. Special Cases in PL

3. Simplex Algorithm

  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Canonical Form and Acceptable Basic Solutions
  • 3.3. Simplex algorithm

4. Sensitivity Analysis

  • 4.1. Economical interpretation; Shadow Price.
  • 4.2. Changes in the resources
  • 4.3. Changes in the objective function coefficient
  • 4.4. introduction of new variables
  • 4.5. introduction of new restrictions

5. Transportation and Assignment Models

  • 5.1. introduction
  • 5.2. Transportation problem
  • 5.3. Assignment problem
  • 5.4. Solving Problems using Qm for Windons

6. Network Models

  • 6.1. concept of Network
  • 6.2. Shortest-Route Technique
  • 6.3. Minimal-Spanning Tree Technique
  • 6.4. Maximal-Flow Technique

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042209

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

It is intended to introduce and familiarize students with the basic concepts of financial management, covering aspects of analysis and practice balance, income statement and cash flows, as well as the profitability of investments and financial structure of short, medium and long term.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • Point 1 - The Company and the Economic Activity
  • Point 2 - The Financial Role
  • Point 3 - Techniques and Instruments for Economic and Financial Analysis
  • Point 4 - Economic Analysis
  • Point 5 - Financial Analysis
  • Point 6 - Risk and Financial Analysis
  • Point 7 - The Statement of Cash Flow

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - ECONOMICS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042211

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The course unit of Economics aims to make students aware of the importance of contemporary economic issues in the context of the functioning of modem organizations. The course begins with an introductory approach to the role of firms in the economy, and its internal and external stakeholders both from an individual (microeconomic) and aggregated (macroeconomic) perspectives.

The learning goals are:

  • LA01. To analyze demand and supply functions of a good and to determine the implication that the changes in the factors that condition those functions produce in the outcomes of the objectives of originations;
  • LA02. To analyze different market structures, identifying its consequences to business strategy, and he definition of optimal behaviors and the role of government;
  • LA03. To analyze the different principles and perspectives on national accounting, how national incarne is determined and how the different macroeconomic variables shape growth in national economies;
  • LA04. To analyze the impact of money supply in macroeconomic models and the nature o1 relationships between the variables ;
  • LAOS. To look into internationalization scenarios and strategies and the behavior of firms therein; LA06. To distinguish between different types of macroeconomic conflicts and government policies to counter these as well analyzing consequences to entrepreneurial and business systems.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • CC1 - lntroduction
  • CC2 - Basic elements of Supply and Demand CC3 - Market Structures
  • CC4 - Market failures and Government intervention CC5 - National accounting
  • CC6 - Incarne determination
  • CC7 - Money supply and Monetary Policy
  • CCB - lnternational trade and Exchange Rate Policy CC9 - Macroeconomic issues and problems


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CURRICULAR UNIT - PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042212

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

At the end of this curricular unit students must meet the following objectives and obtain the following skills:

  • A. Master the concepts of Probability and associated calculations.
  • B. Understand the concept of random variable and the proper use statistical distributions.
  • C. Organize data and perform the most common calculations associated with Descriptive Statistics.
  • D. Properly Use the linear regression as a statistical tool for forecasting and analysis.
  • E. Know how to estimate confidence intervals associated with different statistical parameters.
  • F. Formulate and test hypotheses, choosing the most appropriate hypothesis test for decision making.
  • G. Use a computer statistical tool.
  • H. Analyze indicators and statistical parameters applied to real situations.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Probability

  • - Introduction and basic
  • - Definition of probability
  • - Conditional probability
  • - Bayes' theorem

2. Random Variables

  • - Definition of random variable
  • - Discrete Probability Distribution
  • - Continuous Probability Distribution
  • - Mean or Expected Value, Variance and Standard Deviation of a Random Variable

3. Discrete Distribution

  • - Binomial Distribution
  • - Poisson distribution

4. Continuous Distribution

  • - Normal Distribution

5. Descriptive Statistics

  • - Data organization
  • - Descriptive Measures

6. Linear regression

7. Estimation

8. Hypothesis Testing

  • - Parametric Tests
  • - Non-Parametric Tests

9. Excel Applications in Descriptive and Inferential Statistics


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MANAGEMENT CONTROL

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042213

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • - Sensitize students to the need for an adequate management control system;
  • - Develop a methodology for the design and implementation of the management control system that allows the involvement of managers and motivates them to improve their performance;
  • - Structuring a system that allows organizing the convergence of managers' practice with the company's strategy.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Part I

  • 1. Fundamental Concepts of Accounting Management
  • 2. Components of production cost

Part II

  • 3. Key ideas of the management control system
  • 4. Financial information for management control
  • 5. Forecasting process and budgetary control
  • 6. Information for executives: the management tableau de bord and the balanced scorecard

 

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - FUNDAMENTALS OF AIR TRANSPORT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042210

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • - Analyze the evolution of air transport, highlighting the main contributions to the business and economic impact;
  • - Provide general knowledge of the air transport activity, its legal, regulatory framework processes and liberalization processes and implications for management;
  • - Enable and help to identify some vicissitudes inherent in transport activity and its relationship with the players in the industry sector;
  • - Evaluate the different business models in the regular framework (traditional airlines and low-cost carriers), charter and cargo transportation;
  • - Assist in the interpretation of the key indicators and conditions governing the activity and the resulting impacts in the air transport sector;
  • - Evaluate the future of the air transport sector in both its strands attached and the level of processes with impact on management

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Air Trasport (AT): general framework

  • - General characterization of the AT market
  • - Statistical framework of activity
  • - Development and profitability of the industry – why tiny margins?
  • - Basic indicators in AT

2. Business Models in Air Transport

  • - Scheduled airlines versus charter companies
  • - Low cost carriers versus hybrid models
  • - The market of air cargo
  • - The operation and its operational control

3. Aircraft and its typologies

  • - Airbus versus Boeing
  • - Future developments
  • - Fleet management
  • - The role of maintenance in Air Transport
  • - Airworthiness

4. (De) regulation

  • - Chicago Convention
  • - Role of ICAO and IATA
  • - Liberalization processes in the USA and Europe
  • - SES and SESAR
  • - Role of regional and national civil aviation organizations

5. Role of airports

  • - General characterization
  • - Main airport business
  • - Airport services
  • - Other complementary services (catering, etc.)

6. Future trends

  • - IATA 2050 Vision
  • - Market behavior over the next 20 years

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042214

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

It is intended to provide students with comprehensive knowledge about the different functions of Financial Management in Organizations, namely:

  • - Economic and Financial Analysis
  • - Financial Management of Medium and Long Term(Strategic)
  • - Financial Management short-Term (Operational)
  • - Risk Management and Derivative Products

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Short-term financial management

  • - Indicators of Financial Balance
  • - Treasury Management
  • - Management achievable
  • - Inventory Management
  • - Debt Management Short Term
  • - Treasury Management and Banking
  • - Bank deposits
  • - Treasury yield
  • - Payments
  • - Receipts

Investment Projects

  • - Perspectives
  • - Classification
  • - Risks
  • - SWOT analysis

Financial Applications

  • - Financial Products
  • - Basic Elements of Financial Calculation
  • - Capitalization Schemes
  • - Capitalization and update
  • - Ratio Equivalent
  • - Nominal and Effective Rates
  • - rents
  • - Tables
  • - case studies

Financing of Company

  • - Types of Financing
  • - Short-term financing
  • - Financing M/L term
  • - Business plan
  • - The Company and the Banks
  • - case studies

The Short-Term Financial Planning

  • - The management process
  • - The Budget Management
  • - The contribution of General Accounting
  • - case studies

The Financial Planning Medium and Long Term

  • - Plans and Budgets
  • - Characterization of the means of Financing
  • - The Company's Financial Policy
  • - Sources of financing Company
  • - Financing and Growth
  • - Economic and Financial Predictive Analysis
  • - case studies

The methodology for evaluating investments (in terms of their company and the investor`s perspective)

  • - case studies

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042215

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Objectives:

  • - Provide a general knowledge of the various theoretical concepts of marketing, focusing more on the business side air;
  • - Develop diagnostic market / company / business;
  • - Evaluate the performance of the elements of the marketing mix;
  • - Conduct SWOT Analysis;
  • - Assessment of future trends of marketing at the impact of technology (internet) and social networks.

Note: In all contents will be reinforced the themes "airline and airport marketing"

PROGRAM CONTENTS

5 . Marketing -Mix

  • 5.1 Marketing -Mix (definition )
  • 5.2 The classic 4 P's
  • 5.3 Marketing Mix - aviation

6 . Product

  • 6.1 Policy and product levels
  • 6.2 Main components of product policy
  • 6.3 Packaging
  • 6.4 Policy range
  • 6.5 Life cycle of a product
  • 6.6 Innovation and new product launches

7 . Price

  • 7.1 Price Strategy
  • 7.2 Price Determination
  • 7.3 Costs and prices
  • 7.4 Quality / price
  • 7.5 . Competition and pricing

8 . Distribution

  • 8.1 Distribution Channel
  • 8.2 Distribution Functions
  • 8.3 Organization of distribution channels
  • 8.4 Evaluation and select the distribution channels

9 . Communication

  • 9.1 Communication policy - what means?
  • 9.2 Communication Process
  • 9.3 Types of communication
  • 9.4 Communication strategy
  • 9.5 Advertising
  • 9.6 Advertising Campaigns

10 . Blended Marketing

  • 10.1 Blended Marketing
  • 10.2 Importance of the Internet - Marketing Approaches
  • 10.3 New Generation of Consumers
  • 10.4 New models of business management
  • 10.5 Segmentation Online
  • 10.6 Impact on Marketing -mix
  • 10.7 Social Networking

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - AIRPORT MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042216

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Introduce Airport Management concepts and practices in place at the present day, providing students with an integrated view of the organizational functions of the airports and the business environment.

In such context, examines the long-term objective of the organization; frames the traditional vision; economic structure and regulation; operations and aviation marketing, commercialization and globalization and also the business model evolution from airport operator to airport company.

  • - Question, research, filter and organize relevant information;
  • - Communicate clearly, debate ideas and points of view based on objective information;
  • - Create pedagogic situations based on experiences, interests and needs;
  • - Evaluate the different domains of airport activity development, within the organization and, with respect to the external business environment;
  • - Assess the nature of the competitive advantage of airports;
  • - Assess the challenges and opportunities for industry development. 

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Market
  • 2. Economic and Social Impact
  • 3. Traditional Airport
  • 4. Organization, Economic Structure and Regulation
  • 5. Operations and Avaition Marketing
  • 6. From Comercialization to Globalization
  • 7. Airport Cities & Aerotropolis
  • 8. Airport 3.0: From Airport Operator to Airport Company

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - AIR LAW I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042217

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Skills to be acquired:

  • - Domain of theses and basic concepts of Public Air Law;
  • - Domain of theses and basic concepts of Private Air Law;
  • - Recognition of the implementation of air concepts in the framework of the airline industry;
  • - Understand the legal framework which allowed the most important events of the industry.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Public Air Law Instrument:

  • - Chicago Convention;
  • - Chicago Convention Annexes.

2. Safety Instruments:

  • - Montreal Convention 1971;
  • - Air safety Community regulations.

3. Private Air Law Instruments:

  • - System Warsaw;
  • - Montreal Convention 1999;
  • - Rome Convention.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - AIRCRAFT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042219

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1. Know the aviation history.
  • 2. Know all the different forces acting on an aircraft.
  • 3. Know and achieve by mathematical means the aerodynamic forces acting on an aircraft.
  • 4. Understand and calculate by simple mathematical rules the aircraft performance.
  • 5. Understand and calculate by simple mathematical rules the standard atmosphere.
  • 6. To Know the main aeronautical terms.
  • 7. To identify the main ATA codes.
  • 8. To Understand the working principle of the main aircraft systems.
  • 9. To achieve a solution to the technical problem.
  • 10. Know how to build a maintenance task.
  • 11. Understand the maintenance errors.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Aviation History

Aerodynamics:

  • - Polar drag;
  • - CI / Cd graphics;
  • - CI /a graphics;
  • - Aerodynamic calculations.

Aircraft Performance:

  • - Performance calculations.

Atmosphere:

  • - Standard atmosphere;
  • - Standard atmosphere Calculations

Introduction to aircraft maintenance:

  • - ATA codes;
  • - Technical Documentation;
  • - Aircraft Manuals;
  • - Authorities Documentation;
  • - Maintenance Terms;
  • - Reliability;
  • - MTBF;
  • - MTBUR;
  • - Maintenance tasks;
  • - Non-destructive testing;
  • - Maintenance Materials and Tools;
  • - Ground Support equipment.

Aircraft Systems:

  • - ATA 21 - Air Conditioning
  • - ATA 23 - Communications
  • - ATA 24 - Electrical Systems
  • - ATA 26 - Fire Protection
  • - ATA 27 - Flight Commands
  • - ATA 28 - Fuel
  • - ATA 29 - Hydraulic System
  • - ATA 30 - Ice and Rain Protection
  • - ATA 32 - Landing Gear
  • - ATA 33 - Lights
  • - ATA 34 - Navigation
  • - ATA 36 - Pneumatic Systems
  • - ATA 49 - Auxiliary Power
  • - ATA 71 to ATA 80 – Engine System

Structures:

  • - Aircraft Manufacture
  • - Aircraft Principal and Secondary Structure Elements
  • - Tasks and limits
  • - Hardware
  • - Procedures
  • - Structural Repairs
  • - Practical Exercises for Structural Repair

Maintenance Practical Exercises

Maintenance Tasks Building

Maintenance Errors versus Aircraft Accidents


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - AIR TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042218

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Main objectives are:

  • - Analyze the evaluate air transportation its regulation processes, high lighting the most important contributions with economic and business impact;
  • - Provide a general knowledge about the air passengers and cargo activity (on a business perspective);
  • - Provide the knowledge of the managerial methods and processes specific to the activity in special to the extent of revenues and costs and impacts on margins;
  • - Allow and help to identify some of the inherent vicissitudes to air transportation activity.

Student must get the following competencies:

  • - Understand the dynamic of air transportation, business models, management indicators and the most important management tools;
  • - Know the main aspects of regulation and importance for business;
  • - Know and characterize the different types of revenues and costs and its importance for the operational margins.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. The nature of the business - economic definitions and main characteristics

  • - Evolution and profitability of the industry - why low margins?
  • - Air transportation environment. Travel decisions and choice of the airline

2. Commercial Aircraft and typology of aircraft

  • - Typology of aircraft: the “war” Airbus vs Boeing
  • - Other players in the aviation market

3. Management Indicators

  • - Supply and demand indicators
  • - Load Factor and Yield. Freedom from the air.

4. Future trends

  • - IATA Vision 2050
  • - Future behavior of the market, aircrafts of the future. Space tourism

5. Deregulation processes

  • - Chicago Convention
  • - United States and Europe: liberalization processes. Open Skies

6. Structure and deciding factors of revenues/costs of airlines

  • - Basic Equation of Operational Performance
  • - Type of revenues and costs. Operating Margins
  • - Break Even Load Factor

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - AIR TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042220

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The main objectives are:

  • - Give continuity of the acquired knowledge in Air Transportation economy and management
  • - Provide a more technical knowledge about the activity of passenger and cargo air transportation (in terms of business);
  • - Provide the knowledge in technical areas with direct impact in airline business (network, hub-and spoke, pricing, revenue management, GDS, etc.);
  • - Manage other business models directly related with air transportation (Low Cost Carriers, Charters, Cargo, Business Aviation).
  • Student must get the following competencies:
  • - Understand the dynamic of air transportation, business models, and the most important
  • management tools;
  • - Know the main techniques and acting areas in an airline company and respective

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. The different types of “network”, product planning and characteristics

  • - Product planning
  • - Network Plan
  • - Scheduling
  • - Hub and Spoke

2. Pricing policies and structures

  • Tariffs Structures. Interlining.

3. The evolution of CRSs / GDSs e their impact in the industry

  • Characterization of the main GDS and impacts in distribution

4. Space Control and Revenue/Yield Management

  • Revenue Management Decisions
  • Overbooking – pros and cons

5. Economic factors in charter/low cost carriers

  • Characterization and differences between business models

6. The role of alliances and industry consolidation

7. Frequent Flier Programs and its impact when choosing and airline

8. Fleet Management

To buy vs to lease

9. Cargo Business

10. Business Aviation: main characteristics

11. Contributions of other operational areas in airline business: Catering, Sales on Board, Handling and Maintenance.


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - AIR LAW II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042221

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Skills to be acquired:

  • - Recognition of the implementation of air concepts in the framework of the airline industry;
  • - Understand the legal framework which allowed the most important events in the industry.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. European Union Air Carrier Licensing
  • 2. The European Union's External Relations
  • 3. Aviation and Environment
  • 4. Competition
  • 5. Aircraft Leasing
  • 6. Airports
  • 7. Passenger
  • 8. Safety

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MAINTENANCE

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042222

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The Maintenance Module has fives goals:

  • 1. Learn the concepts and forms of existing maintenance
  • 2. Reliability center maintenance - what is it and its goal
  • 3. Development of aircraft's Maintenance Programs develop an aircraft
  • 4. the planning techniques to be used in aircraft maintenance activity
  • 5. identify and characterize different types of Aircraft Maintenance Organization (MRO) and understand its economic framework / organization associated with Airline Company.

The student will develop skills in the field of maintenance processes focused on reliability used in aircraft maintenance, development of maintenance programs and techniques for planning and scheduling work, acquiring knowledge to organize and manage a maintenance area, articulating the maintenance function with the goals of the company's overall management.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Maintenance

  • - Historical evolution of maintenance
  • - Definition of Maintenance
  • - The function Maintenance
  • - Objective function Maintenance
  • - Functions that interact with the Maintenance
  • - Functions normally the responsibility of a Maintenance service

2. Reliability - Parameters

  • - RCM-Reliability Centered Maintenance
  • - Reliability, Maintenance, Availability
  • - MTBF, MTTR
  • - Distribution patterns (Exponential; Normal; Weibull)
  • - Reliability of systems in series, parallel and compound

3. Maintenance programs - MSG-3

  • - certification Maintenance requirements
  • - Evolution of Maintenance concepts
  • - Industry Steering Committe (ISC)
  • - Centered Maintenance Process
  • - MSG-3 (Systems and Reactors / Structures / Zonal)
  • - MRB-Report
  • - PPH; MPD

4. Work orders

  • - Definition
  • - Management Elements of a Work Order
  • - priority
  • - preparation for Labour
  • - Preparation of work order
  • - Request Work and states circuits and the Work Order

5. Planning and schedule

  • - Planning the various types of maintenance tasks
  • - Schedule of Maintenance tasks
  • - Planning tools
  • - CPM; PERT
  • - GANTT

6. Maintenance organization (functional / hierarchical)

  • - Maintenance organizations (MRO) their economic environment and organizational maintenance

7. Costs

  • - indirect costs, direct costs, cost accounting

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS IN AIR TRANSPORT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042223

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

This Course Unit has as general objective:

  • - Students should be able to master basic concepts of obligations
  • - Know and apply basic contract concepts
  • - Knowledge of contractual and extra contractual liability
  • - Have a basic understanding of the articles of association, especially about commercial companies
  • - And understand the most common contracts for the air transport industry

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Background:

  • - Traders
  • - Commercial Acts
  • - The Company and the commercial society

Social types and the concept of commercial society

Corporate bodies

Social Capital and Patrimony

Most relevant moments in the life of commercial society

Contractual basic concepts

  • - Freedom to contract
  • - General contractual clauses
  • - In particular, IATA’s conditions of carriage

Contractual and Extra Contractual liability

International contracts

Most common contracts in the air transport industry

  • - Commercial contracts of distribution
  • - Air transport contracts
  • - Airline Ticketing

Operational Contracts

  • - Standard Ground Handling Agreement
  • - Jet Fuel Supply Agreement

Commercial contracts

  • - Interline Agreements
  • - Code Sharing
  • - Travel Agents (rappel)
  • - General Sales Agent (GSA)

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - SCALE ASSISTANCE

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042223

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Objectives

With this curricular unit, it is intended that students acquire a knowledge of the operational processes involved in ground handling, and of the Handling Business and Market.

Specifically, at the end of the curricular unit, students should be able to:

  • - Understand and learn to relate the various operating processes of ground handling that are placed at the service of an aircraft (cabin cleaning services, catering services, board, ramp, Passenger service, maintenance, etc ...).
  • - Understand the business and the market of ground handling, from the viewpoint of different actors, be they airports or airlines.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Introduction to Handling
  • 2. Operational Services
  • 3. SGHA/SLA
  • 4. Legal Approach Directive 96/67/CE e Law 275/99
  • 5. The Portuguese Market
  • 6. The Global Market
  • 7. Market Trends
  • 8. Global Players
  • 9. Airports Infrastructures Interface
  • 10. Costs and Revenue Structure
  • 11. Pricing
  • 12. Industry Key Performance Indicators

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - QUALITY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042224

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Objectives

It is intended that by the end of this course the students reveal skills and capabilities that will enable them to: integrate with ease in organizations related to aeronautics that have adopted strategic objective of total quality management; dealing with other Management Systems (Environment, safety and health at work, social responsibility of organizations), in a global perspective and enterprising

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • - Introduction to quality
  • - Quality management
  • - Quality evolution
  • - Quality Cost
  • - Flight quality and safety
  • - Quality systems
  • - Quality Organizations
  • - ISO 9001: 2015

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH PRACTICES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042226

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The objective of this CU is to develop abilities in the students that allow them to follow and develop research work both during the Degree, in future studies or in their future professional life.

It is also intended that the student understands the research process, knows its main steps and methodologies and is able to communicate properly the results obtained.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Research in Aeronautical Management

  • - Management as an area of ​​knowledge and aeronautical management as a specialty
  • - Basic Research versus Oriented Research
  • - The scientific method
  • - The Quantitative and qualitative approaches: characteristics and distinctions
  • - Stages and components of an investigation
  • - Quality criteria of an investigation
  • - Ethical issues

2. Inhibition to carry out research projects

  • - Problems, rationale, methodology, techniques and instruments for data collection; analysis of results and verification of hypotheses
  • - Design of a research project in Aeronautical Management

3. The Scientific communication

  • - Main Support and techniques of Scientific Communication

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - SALES MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042227

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Sales management is one of the key success elements of a company these days. Sales besides being the most expensive component of the marketing mix are also the "link" direct to the customer / consumer.

Being in the air transport industry, we have the following objectives:

  • - Understand what are the "trends" affecting commercial aviation companies in the area of sales.
  • - Understand the functions of a sales manager.
  • - Have an overview of the business management process
  • - Identify internal and external factors that influence the development of marketing and sales strategies in airlines.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Groups vs Teams and Leadership

Introduction to the concept and function of the sales force (FDV)

Sales function

Structure of sales force

Size of sales force

Management of a sales force:

1. Planning and supervision

2. Ratios and evaluation of sales

3. Success factors in sales

4. Sales activities

5. Communication skills

6. Sale within the framework of strategy and marketing:

  • - Company planning process
  • - The Marketing Mix in aviation companies (sales)
  • - Process of selling and managing of its phases

7. Sales models

8. Concept of flown revenue

9. Concept of sold revenue

10. Revenue breakdown

11. The role of travel agents, tour operators and other market players (traditional and online)

12. Sales delegations


 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - OPERATIONS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042228

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The goals of this course: understanding the whole concept related to the aircraft operations: Understanding the airport structure, the international operations rules. The air operator certificate. Duties and responsibilities of the air operator. Impact of meteorology and mass and balance on aircraft operation. The flight plan preparation. ETOPS operations, the Minimum equipment list. Flight Operations Officer – duties and responsibilities. The airline Operational Control Center.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • - Airport Layout: Air side and Land side;
  • - ICAO rules, Chicago Convention Annexes;
  • - The European Commission, EASA and the Local Authority;
  • - IR-OPS rules;
  • - ETOPS rules;
  • - Minimum Equipment List (MEL);
  • - Operational Meteorology;
  • - Weight and Balance;
  • - Flight plan;
  • - The Flight Dispatcher;
  • - Airline Operations Control Center
  • - Flight  dispatching: Case Study.

 

 

CURRICULAR UNIT - AVIATION REGULATIONS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042229

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1. Get in-depth knowledge in aeronautical regulation applied to the aeronautical activities;
  • 2. Understand the aviation safety regulatory structure of the European Union and of the United States of America and apply these knowledge into the interpretation of real aeronautical activity;
  • 3. Acquire in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge about the European Union aeronautical regulations;
  • 4. Understand the content of the annexes to the aeronautical regulations, respective AMC and GM, as well as its application in real industrial cases.

The student will develop skills in the aeronautical regulations’ processes of European Union centred on aircraft maintenance, airworthiness management, design and production, allowing them to understand the application of the legislation in an aerospace organisation, in conjunction with the overall goals of its organisational management.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Introduction

1. ICAO

  • a. ICAO annexes.
  • b. Freedoms of the Air.

2. Information

  • a. Look and understand the aeronautical regulations on web site of FAA, ANAC Brazil, EASA and ANAC Portugal.

3. Regulatory structure in the European Union

  • a. Framework.
  • b. Regulatory structure in EU.
  • c. EASA organisation and functioning.
  • d. Functions of National Aviation Authorities.

4. Airworthiness Community regulation

  • a. Basic Regulation:
  • (1)           Regulation (EC) 2018/1139.
  • (2)           Previous revisions.
  • b. Initial Airworthiness – Part 21
  • c. Additional airworthiness specifications for operations – Part 26
  • d. Continuing Airworthiness:
  • (1)           Part M.
  • (2)           Part 145.
  • (3)           Part 66.
  • (4)           Part 147.
  • (5)           Part T

5. EASA – Airworthiness main annexes:

  • a. EASA Part 21, regulation and exercises.
  • b. EASA Part 26.
  • c. EASA Part M, regulation and exercises.
  • d. EASA Part 145, regulation and exercises.
  • e. EASA Part 66, regulation and exercises.
  • f. EASA Part 147, regulation and exercises.
  • g. EASA Part T

6. Other Regulation

  • a. SAFA Programme in EU.
  • b. Bilateral agreements.
  • c. 14 CFR Part 145

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8042230

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Introduce Strategic Management concepts and practices in place at the present day, providing students with an integrated view of the organizational functions and the business environment.

In such context, examines the long-term objective of the organization, frames the internal and external assessment; the nature of competitive advantage and the set of strategies and tactics available for use along the organizations life cycle.

  • - Question, research, filter and organize relevant information;
  • - Communicate clearly, debate ideas and points of view based on objective information;
  • - Create pedagogic situations based on experiences, interests and needs;
  • - Evaluate the different domains of strategic activity development, within organizations and, with respect to the external business environment;
  • - Assess the nature of competitive advantage within organizations;
  • - Assess strategic opportunities according to organizations / businesses / industries life cyrcle.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Organization, Management, Strategy
  • 2. The Evolution of Management
  • 3. Stakeholders, Vision, Mission
  • 4. Strategic Organizational Structure
  • 5. Strategic Organizational Decision
  • 6. Markets and the Nature of Competitive Advantage
  • 7. Strategic Positioning
  • 8. Functional Level Strategy
  • 9. Business Level Strategy
  • 10. Strategy and Life Cycle
  • 11. Global strategy
  • 12. Corporate Strategy
  • 13. Corporate Development
  • 14. Relational Strategies
  • 15. The Evolution of Strategic Thinking

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - AIR NAVIGATION

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042231

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Study of Air Navigation principles and their impact on the commercial aviation management.

Calculation of distances and trajectories. Navigation instruments: Magnetic Compass, Altimetry, VOR, DME, ILS, NDB/ADF. Navigational instruments operation. Operating costs in commercial air navigation. Airspace configuration, routes and aeronautical charts. Portugal AIP. Eurocontrol.

Students should learn the existing types and navigation modes in commercial aviation

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • - The Planet Earth and the Navigation;
  • - Orthodomic and Loxodromic distance (GCD);
  • - Aeronautical charts;
  • - Air navigation instruments operation;
  • - Altimetry;
  • - Magnetism;
  • - Magnetic compass;
  • - VOR and DME;
  • - ILS;
  • - NDB/ADF;
  • - Airspace configuration and Portugal AIP;
  • - Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management (ATFCM);
  • - Single European Sky (SES)

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - ADMINISTRATION OF CIVIL AVIATION

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042232

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The main objectives are:

  • - Analyze the evolution of air transport and regulatory processes that accompanied this evolution;
  • - To increase knowledge about the Administration Entities / regulation of Civil Aviation (CAA, FAA, EASA, ICAO, ANAC) and its complementarity to define common rules and their applicability in the states;
  • - To develop knowledge in relation to specification certification from EASA as standards and recommended practices of ICAO Annexes and the implications more common in corporate management Aviation and Airports;
  • - Objectives, structure and operation of the various organizations of civil aviation and airports (ACI, IATA);
  • - Analyze the various regulations and other documentation and to make a transposition and direct application in civil aviation companies and airports;

The student should have acquired the following competences:

  • - Understand the dynamics of the aviation regulatory and monitoring necessary;
  • - Know the main regulatory aspects of airport activity and civil aviation and its relevance in the management of companies;
  • - Be able to apply in day-to-day business of aviation / airport the national and international standards and identify documents best suited to each situation;
  • - Understand and characterize the different actors in the Administration of Civil Aviation (agencies and organizations);

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Regulatory processes

  • The Paris Convention
  • The Chicago Convention
  • Regulation of Air Navigation
  • The Role of EASA and the regulatory model;

2. ICAO Annexes and supporting documentation to the activity.

  • Evolution and applicability of the various EASA Documents and ICAO Annexes;
  • The implications in the management of companies and Airport and Aviation;
  • Transposition of the Standards and Recommended Practices for EASA documents and the new regulatory framework concerning certification;
  • Knowledge of the applicability and necessity for compliance against the contents of the various documents support the various organizations / entities;

3. Organizations

  • Objectives and structure;
  • Operation and application in the states;
  • Consultation and support in the activity of aviation companies and airports;

4. Future Trends

  • IATA Vision 2050
  • FAA Next Gen
  • EASA

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - FISCALITY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042233

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The student must acquire basic knowledge of the fundamental principles of the Portuguese tax system and expertise deemed necessary for the solution of many problems and tax obligations of organizations, particularly with regard to IRS,IRC and VAT..

In short, it is intended:

  • - Understand the importance of taxation for decision-making, and the specificity of its rules on the direct impact on the company's results and the corresponding need for fiscal control.
  • - To study and understand the structure of the Portuguese tax system in order to distinguish and characterize the various types of taxes, including their functioning mechanisms;
  • - Complementary knowledge management, accounting and law, promoting interdisciplinary in addressing the different aspects of organizational life;
  • - Provide the future professionals with a set of basic knowledge to ensure tax compliance of companies.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

I. Introduction

  • 1.1. PORTUGUESE TAX SYSTEM
  • 1.2 The Structure of the Portuguese Tax System
  • 1.3 TAXES - FISCAL OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY

I. Understanding taxes:

  • 1.1. Tax concept
  • 1.2. Related figures, classification and moments of the tax obligation
  • 1.3 Active subjects and taxable persons
  • 1.4 - Distinction between taxes, fees and fines
  • 1.5 - Types of taxes
  • 1.6 - Tax stages
  • 1.7. Constitutional principles of tax law

II. IRS

  • 1.1. Personal incident
  • 1.2 Gross income from each income category
  • 1.3. Negative limitation of the incidence
  • 1.4 Tax benefits in each income category
  • 1.5 Withholding tax
  • 1.6 Resolution of cases

III. IRC

  • 1.1 Actual and Personal Impact
  • 1.2. Tax Basis
  • 1.3. Taxation period
  • 1.4. Accounting and tax income and costs
  • 1.5. Equity variations not reflected in income
  • 1.6. Grants and grants
  • 1.7. Amortization, provisions and adjustments
  • 1.8. Social utility achievements and Donations
  • 1.9. Non-deductible costs for tax purposes
  • 1.10. Taxation of capital gains and reinvestment
  • 1.11. Elimination of double taxation
  • 1.12. Loss reporting
  • 1.13. Fees
  • 1.14. Fiscal Transparency
  • 1.15. Taxation of Consolidated Profit
  • 1.16. Settlement, Payments on Account, Special Payment on Account and Withholding Taxes
  • 1.17. Taxation of Non-Resident Entities
  • 1.18. Tax benefits in IRC
  • 1.19. Resolution of Cases and Completion of Declarations

IV. VAT

  • 1.1. Description
  • 1.2. Incidence
  • 1.3. Exemptions
  • 1.4. Location of operations
  • 1.5. Tax clearance
  • 1.6. Fees

V. Property taxes

  • 1.1. Property tax and use tax
  • 1.2. IMI - Municipal Property Tax and AIMI Study
  • 1.3. Introduction: characteristics and principles
  • 1.4. Incidence: personal and real

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042235

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Ethics and Deontology has the following objectives:

  • 1) acquire knowledge and relevant information of fundamental concepts of Ethics and Deontology about different problems related to professional ethics and practical aspects involving.
  • 2) formulate performance criteria on aspects related to professional practice.
  • 3) to develop conscience and the ethical and civic responsibility, in general and in the professional scope, as well as social and environmental responsibility.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Nature and fundamentals of Ethics. Ethical approaches

2. Key notions: Human liberty, human actions and responsibility.

3. Conscience and its formation. Ethics intent and moral norms.

4. Business ethics. The company as an ethically responsible organization.

  • 4.1 Person, society and Common Good.
  • 4.1.2 social and environmental responsibility of companies
  • 4.2 Ethics, leadership and organizational climate

5. Ethics, professionalism and deontology

  • 5.1. Professional activity and ethical conduct
  • 5.2. Codes of ethics and conduct of the aeronautical industry

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8042234

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The course Human Resource Management (HRM) aims to provide a framework for the importance of human resources management in organizations so as to prepare the students to cope with the increasingly important task of managing people. Thus, it is intended in general terms: the understanding of the most recent developments in critical areas of HRM and to deepen the interrelationships between these areas and the overall management of organizations; provide a current view of the HRM, as well as to outline a framework of the challenges and opportunities that present themselves to those responsible for HRM, while active elements in the planning, implementation and monitoring of strategic actions in the organization; provide the students with a greater amount of possible sources of information, documentation, and knowledge bases to support decision-making, which enables them to act immediately in the organization; to address the various aspects over which they can analyze the problems in human resources and provide a set of solutions, in particular through the practice and learning of the cases presented and operated on in class.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • Organizations
  • People
  • People and Organizations
  • The management of Human Resources
  • The recruitment
  • Staff selection
  • Design of Positions
  • Description and Analysis of Positions
  • Evaluation of the Performance
  • Compensation - managing salaries
  • Social Benefit plans
  • Quality of Life in the Workplace
  • Relationships with People
  • Training and Development of Staff
  • Organizational Development
  • Information systems in HR
  • Ethics and Social Responsibility