About The Program

 

The GW Certificate in Aviation Safety and Security is designed to take a comprehensive approach to integrating safety and security in Air Transportation. Participants will be challenged to examine paradigm shifts in the integration of safety and security in this mode of transportation.  Core and elective courses offer topics ranging in:

• Aviation Safety principles and technical issues

• Management, and financing safety and security in a global context
• Airline and airport security operations

• Organization of safety and security in an aviation environment

• Lessons learned from accident investigations
• Aviation law
• Government regulations
• Risk management and response to disasters
• Survivability and aircraft crashworthiness
• Human factors

The GW Aviation Safety and Security Certificate Program was established in 1998 in the current format as a professional development program.  In 2002, the program was approved to grant graduate and undergraduate credits through the School of Engineering and Applied Science  The Certificate program is formally offered by the University to provide a unique forum for aviation safety and security professionals to gain additional and new perspectives to their fields. This program strives to bring industry and government leaders and managers together in a conducive and interactive setting.

Classes are held at the Virginia Campus of the George Washington University in Ashburn, Virginia.

Daily Schedule:

8:00 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast (provided)
8:30 - 10:10 am Lecture
10:10 - 10:30 am Break
10:30 - 12:10 pm Lecture
12:10 - 1:30 pm Lunch (provided)
1:30 - 3:10 pm Lecture
3:10 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 5:10 pm Lecture

Lectures are primarily presented using power point and other visual aids and our small class size allows for ample interaction with the faculty. All lecture material and supplemental reading will be provided