Urban Air Mobility

Language: Englisch
Location: Remote
Duration: Self-paced
Start: Variable
Cost: 45 €
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By 2030, it is estimated that around 60 percent of the world’s population will live in cities. If we succeed in shifting some of the traffic from the roads to the air, researchers believe this could help to further secure the basic human need for mobility.

The course gives you a first introduction to the relatively new field of urban air mobility, explains the technical background and provides an overview of all other necessities such as air traffic management, public acceptance and environmental sustainability.

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Quick Info

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Benefits

  • New Subject Area

    The course gives you an introduction to the relatively new field of urban air mobility – technical background, air traffic management, public acceptance and environmental sustainability.

  • First-hand Know-how

    During the course, you will benefit from renowned lecturers from TUM and other institutions who are directly involved in the development and implementation of urban air mobility projects.

  • Certificate from Coursera and TUM

    A verified certificate from Coursera and TUM certifies your acquired knowledge and skills in the field of urban air mobility after a successful final exam.

MOOC Urban Air Mobility

Global Aerospace Campus announces first international MOOC “Urban Air Mobility”

Program Overview

You can find all the important information about the certificate program here. Below you can find out the objectives of the program, the exact details of the process, what you will learn and which lecturers will teach you the content.

Aims of the certificate course

Here you will find information on the aims of this course and its content.

If you want to learn and understand the concepts of urban air mobility in the most practical and simple way possible, then this is the course for you. As part of a newly launched Air Mobility Initiative (AMI), Bavarian companies and researchers from the Munich Aerospace research group “Urban Air Mobility” are driving the development of electric air transportation. In this newly published online course, participants in the initiative provide insights into this exciting future field.

Details

Here you will find information on dates, requirements and other general conditions for the certificate program.
Provider:TUM Institute for LifeLong Learning
Program:Urban Air Mobility
Graduation:After successful completion of the final exam, participants will receive a certificate from Coursera and the Technical University of Munich.
Target audience:Learners who are keen to explore new fields in Aerospace and want to understand the in depth concepts of new mobility and the influence of Urban Air Mobility on the entire transport system.
Participation fee:The program fee is 45 €. Access to lectures and assignments depends on your type of enrollment. If you take the course in audit mode, you will be able to see most course materials for free. To access graded assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience, during or after your audit.*
Language:English
Dates:The course is self-paced. The enrollment is possible anytime.
Study location:Remote
Format & Timing:Online, self-paced, 10 weeks
Admission requirements:Basic knowledge of Aerospace science is beneficial.
Background in Aerospace and Engineering is a must and will make you progress faster.

*Based on our experience, the German tax benefits help many of our participants to self-finance their education as these can be worth of up to 50% of tuition fees and program related travel costs. Please, consultyour personal tax advisor for more details. For participants of our programs residing outside Germany this might be applicable, please check the situation with the local tax authorities in your country of residence.

Lecturers

Get to know our experienced lecturers who will teach you the certificate content and with whom you will work.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Drechsler,
Chair of Carbon Composites, TUM
Dr Kay Plötner (BHL),
Team Leader, Bauhaus Aviation e.V.
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Moll,
Aviation Management, University of the German Armed Forces
Prof. Dr. Rolf Moeckel,
Civil, Geo- and Environmental Engineering, TUM
Prof. Dr. Constantinos Antoniou,
Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, TUM
Dr Bernd Korn,
Head of Pilot Assistance, DLR
Dr. Markus May,
Founder & Managing Director, Airbus Urban Mobility GmbH
Prof. Laurie Garrow,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Prof. Luis Rodrigues,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University Montreal
Prof. Dr. Humberto,
FAJ Bettini, Production Engineering Department (SEP) (Sao Carlos), University of São Paulo
Dr. Jan Dirks,
Officer, The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

Structure

Find out here how the program is structured and what the individual modules of the certificate program contain.

Module 1: Introduction – What is Urban Air Mobility?

This first course module gives an overview of all aspects that define “Urban Air Mobility”. It explains the concept of Urban Air Mobiltiy as well as all crucial factors, such as vehicle and power train design, infrastructure and vertiport design, etc.

Module 2: Urban Air Mobility from an Industry Perspective

In this module, Dr. Markus May presents the approach to the topic of Urban Air Mobility from an industry perspective and shows the ideas of Airbus in this context.

Module 3: Political perspectives

In this module, the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport presents the national policies and the legal framework for Urban Air Mobility in Germany.

Module 4: Demand Modeling for Urban Air Mobility

This module describes different approaches and data used to model travel demand. An introduction to discrete choice models is provided.

Module 5: Aviation Management

Decision makers at airports and airlines face many challenges and require support to deal with these effectively and appropriately. This gives rise to a variety of difficult and interesting problems. This module looks at three big classes of problems and discusses applicable general solution approaches.

Module 6: Traffic Management for Urban Air Mobility

This module is about understanding how traffic management for urban air mobility could work and what conditions need to be designed in an urban environment.

Module 7: Urban Air Mobility and Urban Planning

This module explains the common transport and land use planning processes that are required for building UAM vertiports.

Module 8: Understanding the Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility

This course covers a range of topics related to determining the demand for previously unavailable modes of transport, such as UAM.

Module 9: Air Mobility Trajectory Planning

Professor Rodrigues from Concordia University in Montreal presents the basics of trajectory planning, also, he describes how infrastructure, social acceptance, sustainability, flight data and air traffic management, as well as the regulation and certification serve as most important pillars in air mobility.

Module 10: Economics of Urban Air Mobility

This module discusses some of the economic conditions (cost, demand, finance) that must be met for market viability of eVTOL vehicles in passenger transportation networks.

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Testimonials

I really appreciate TUM’s efforts to improve the knowledge of people around the world through free education.
The course was very intensive. It covered all aspects of urban mobility and related technical aspects. The professors, who are from reputed universities, made the chapters cohesive, conceptual and practical so that the students are able to understand the circumstances, past, present and future scenario of urban mobility in an industrialized environment.

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E-Mail: mooc@lll.tum.de

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