Quality Assurance in Aircraft Maintenance

11M0704

Master

English

5.0

only summer term

1 semester

Quality Assurance is in the Aviation sector one of the main cornerstones to produce a high level of safety. In a safety critical environment like the Aviation sector this element of high technology needs to be understood from the very basic up to a complex level. This module introduces this topic to the students in both practical and theoretical approaches.

- all relevant Regulation like Part 21, CS 25, CS 23

- Maintenance Manuals, SID, etc.

- Structures of a CAMO and CAMO+

- Structures of a Part 145 and 147 company (including Part 66 educations)

- principles of Auditations (internal and external)

- Structures of the relevant Authories

- parctical Quality Assurance tasks within a Part 145 company

- Human Performance and Limitation within the Maintenance Sector of modern Aviation

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Written examination

• Project Report, written

none

Exam: see the current study regulations

Project report, written: approx. 10 pages, associated explanation: approx. 10-15 minutes

- none

The student is able to understand the structures and the importance of Quality Assurance in the field of Engineering

The student gets a sound basis in understanding Quality Assurance

The student is able to produce manuals, forms and procedures to implement Quality Assurance within a organisational unit of a company. The student is able to communicate Quality Assurance within a company. The student is able to understand the actual development of Quality Assurance within the field of Engineering and to implement modern changes.

The students building up there competence - based on excursions to relevant Aerospace Companies and Research Institutions - to use their new received knowledge and to put that interdisciplinary into context 

• Schrader, Steffen

• Schrader, Steffen