College of Air Traffic Management

College of Air Traffic Management

 

College of Air Traffic Management (CATM for short) is the headstream and main force of air traffic management personnel training, pioneer of the reform of air traffic management training as well as the major battlefield of scientific research on air traffic management. The college directly provides services for ATC, flight dispatch, airport and meteorological departments at all levels of the civil aviation industry. The traffic and transportation program under the college is a national characteristic specialty construction program and Tianjin specialty construction program as well as the key construction specialty of CAAC, which is also one of the pilot specialties of “Outstanding Engineers Training Plan” of the Ministry of Education. This program passed the highest level of Engineering Education Professional Certification by the Ministry of Education at the first time in October 2012 and passed Engineering Education Professional Certification by the Ministry of Education  again in 2018. It is the first aviation transportation program that passed this certification nationwide.

 Since its foundation, CATM has cultivated more than 10,000 junior college students, undergraduate students and postgraduates and trained various types of ATM personnel with more than 20,000 person-time. About 70% of the existing air traffic controllers and flight dispatchers in the domestic civil aviation system are from our college, which has provided powerful talent resources for the rapid development of China's civil aviation industry.

Currently, there are three master programs, namely traffic transportation planning and management, traffic information engineering and control and traffic transportation engineering(Master of Engineering). Three undergraduate programs are traffic transportation, traffic management and applied meteorology. At present, there are over 2,800 undergraduate and postgraduate students studying at our college. The college attaches great importance to the all-round development of students' morality, intelligence,  as well as the cultivation of students' professional qualities. More than one third of the students are prize winners in various contests at university, municipal and national level. All the senior students participate in internship and outstanding students will get the opportunity to exchange and study in other countries. The students are warmly welcomed by various employers including air traffic management authorities, airlines, airports and civil aviation administrative authorities with an employment rate of over 90%.

CATM is comprised of Airspace Planning and Aeronautical Information Department, ATC Operation and Technique Department, Flight Operation Control Department, Aeronautical Meteorological Department, ATM research base (ATM Information and Simulation Technique Department) and China Civil Aviation Dispatcher Training Center as well as synthetic laboratory centers. The college has excellent teachers such as teachers enrolled in “Ten Thousand Plan”, young and middle-aged leading talents in scientific and technological innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, young and middle-aged technical leaders in Civil Aviation Administration of China, etc.. At present, CATM has more than 130 teaching staff. More than half of the faculty members have the experience of being trained abroad. All of the teachers have participated in on-the-job training programs and 90% of the professional instructors hold a license in ATC, flight dispatch or aeronautical information, etc.. A large number of front-line faculty of domestic air traffic control and dispatching are hired to teach related courses every year. Moreover, Foreign teachers are invited to participate in undergraduate teaching tasks. Teachers of the college have presided over and participated in more than 100 projects of National 863 Program, National Natural Science Foundation Program and National Air Traffic Control Commission Projects, as well as provincial-level scientific and technological projects, provincial-level Natural Science Foundation Program and CAAC foundation programs and projects, etc..

CATM has distinctive college-running characteristics, strict teaching management, reasonable faculty structure and high scientific research level. The employment rate of the college graduates is top-ranked nationwide. CATM is the best starting point for young people who are interested in the cause of civil aviation to fly their dreams.

 

 

Undergraduate Programs

 

• Applied Meteorology

 

        Major Profile

This major, with aviation meteorological features, with of goal of building “wisdom  meteorology”, which commits itself to cultivating cross-type applied talents. While those cross-type applied talents are supposed to have a good humanity knowledge and science literacy with solid base of mathematics, physics, computer, foreign language, master the basic theory of civil aviation air traffic management and atmospheric science as well as qualified with basic skills in the fields of aviation meteorological detection, weather analysis and forecasting and have strong ability to analyze and solve problems.

        Job Orientation

Students are mainly employed by civil aviation air traffic management departments, civil aviation airports and airlines. Graduates can also work in related research institutes concerning meteorology, hydrology, environmental protection, national defense and oceanography, etc..

        Main Courses

        Atmospheric Physics

        Fluid Mechanics

        Civil Aviation Meteorological Exploration

        Synoptic Principle

        Dynamic Meteorology

        Statistical Weather Forecast

        Satellite Meteorology

        Radar Meteorology

        Numerical Weather Prediction

        Aviation Weather and Forecast

 

• Transportation (Air Traffic Control)

 

        Major Profile

The training syllabus of this major meets the dual requirements of the undergraduate education of the Ministry of Education as well as the Civil Aviation Administration of China on ATC industry, which aims to cultivate senior engineering and management personnel with strong practical and innovative abilities as well as meeting requirements of good quality, high technology, strong ability, internationalization and standardization in air traffic control industry. In addition to achieve graduation certificate and bachelor's degree certificate of engineering, the bachelor's degree holders can also obtain the basic qualification certificate of civil aviation air traffic control (qualification certificate) and be engaged in air traffic control as well as apron operation management.

        Job Orientation

The graduated students are mainly for regional Air Traffic Management Bureaus, ATC sub-bureaus (stations) and airport companies. Air traffic controllers are in short supply in the field of civil aviation with a promising career development.

        Main Courses

        Air Traffic System Optimization and Management

        Aeronautical Meteorology

        Aerodynamics

        Aviation Intelligence Services and Aeronautical Charts

        Airspace Planning

        Aircraft Performance Engineering

        Aerodrome Control

        Procedural Control

        Radar Control

        Control Rules and Procedures

 

• Traffic Management (Flight Operations Management)

 

        Major Profile

This major, with engineering education conceptions, aims to foster senior engineering technical and management personnel who have a good social sense of responsibility and professional ethics, possess good psychological quality and the rigorous work style with solid mathematical foundation and necessary basic knowledge of economic management, master flight operation control knowledge and skills as well as strong ability of coordinated communication, resource management, risk control ability and emergency disposal ability and a certain ability of overall planning of civil aviation.

        Job Orientation

The graduates of this major are employed to the fields such as airlines operation and control department, aviation management department of business jet company, safety supervision department of CAAC and related scientific research institutions.

         Main Courses

         System Analysis and Intelligent Algorithms

         Air Traffic System Optimization and Management

         Air Traffic Safety Analysis and Management

         Airline Operations Control

         Aerodynamics

         Aircraft Systems and Engines

         Aircraft Performance Engineering

         Flight Plan and Weight Balance

         Aeronautical Meteorology

         Aviation Intelligence Services and Aeronautical Charts

 

 

Master Programs

 

• Planning and Management of Transportation

 

"Planning and Management of Transportation" is a new interdisciplinary subject, which mainly studies the scientific management of the operation process of civil aviation transportation system as well as the optimization of system resource. Research directions include Airspace Planning and Management, Air Traffic Operation Optimization and Air Traffic Control Operation Safety Analysis.

         Main Courses

         Natural Dialectics

         English

         Stochastic Process

         Matrix Theory

         Multiple Objective Programming

         Traffic and Transportation Engineering

         Flight Mechanics

         Air Traffic Flow Management

         Airspace Planning Theory and Method

         Air Traffic Safety Separation Theory

         Quality Safety Management Method and Application of Air Traffic Control System

 

• Traffic Information Engineering and Control

 

"Traffic Information Engineering and Control" is to study the basic theory of air traffic information collection, transmission, processing and control as well as the application of electronic, communication, information and control technology in traffic and transportation engineering. Research directions include ATC System Simulation, ATC Information and Control as well as Flight Operation Control.

        Main Courses

        Natural Dialectics

        English

        Stochastic Process

        Matrix Theory

        System Control Basis

        Data Analysis Theory and Method

        Flight Mechanics

        Modeling and Analysis of ATC Information System

        Air Traffic Safety Separation Theory

        Multiple Objective Programming

        Traffic and Transportation Engineering

 

• Traffic Transportation Engineering

 

The discipline of "Traffic Transportation Engineering" is a new interdisciplinary subject, which mainly studies relevant theories, methods and technologies in transportation system engineering, and mainly involves the planning and decision-making, construction and management of transportation operation system and facilities. Research directions include Airspace Planning and Management, Air Traffic Operation Optimization, Air Traffic Control Operation Safety Analysis, Airport planning as well as Airport Operation and Management.

        Main Courses

        Natural Dialectics

        Engineering Ethics

        English

        Numerical Analysis

        Systems Engineering

        Traffic and Transportation Engineering

        Airport Operation Management

        Aeronautical System Capacity Analysis