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Department of Aviation Transport
Current position: Associate professor, Director of Aviation Engineering Program Engineering Faculty
Experience:
- More than 11 years of academic experience
- More than 28 years’ experience in aviation maintenance
- More than 5 years’ experience at top management position in aviation business (Airline General Director Technical Maintenance Chief Advisor)
- More than 2 years’ experience as Airline CAMO Manager (Technical Director)
Teaching activity
Master level (Aviation Managment Program): Management of Aviation Maintenace
Bachelor level (Aviation engineering Program): Compliance Monitoring System, Aircraft Maintenace Planning, Aerodynamic & Flight Dynamic; Maintenace of Aircraft; Propeller and its control systems; Human Factors; Introduction to specialty
Publication activity: Author/Co-author of 18 research publications in journals and conference proceedings (incl. SCOPUS&WoS)
Projects: Horizon 2020 “Enhancing excellence and innovation capacity in sustainable transport interchange – ALLIANCE”
Supervised theses: 1 PhD student, 5 Master students, 8 Bachelor students
Research fields/domains: February 2019 got my PhD degree “INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GROUND HANDLING VEHICLES ON THE AIRCRAFT HANDLING DURATION”
Motto: Quality is not an act, it’s a habit
Hobby: Mushroom picking
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Current position – Assistant professor
Experience – more than 15 years of experience in transport planning and simulation in the Riga municipality, more than 1 year in academic and research as assistant of professor and lecture in TSI Certified specialist in using EMME software (traffic flow simulation.
Membership – Member of the Latvian Simulation and Modelling Society, Association “WOMEN IN TRANSPORT”
Teaching activity – Geography of Transport Systems (4ECTS, master level), Decision Making Methodologies (2ECTS, master level), Sustainable Transport Interchanges (6ECTS, master level)
Publication activity – Author/co-author of 11 research publications in journals and conference proceedings (indexed in SCOPUS/WoS).
Projects – for the last years participated in more than 2 international projects (Horizon2020, INTERREG): ALLIANCE project (https://alliance-project.eu/) – participant, SUMBA (https://sumba.eu/) – project coordinator
Supervised theses – 2 master level thesis supervision with successful defence
Research fields/domains – simulation modelling, sustainable transportation, mobility
Awards – ALLIANCE PROJECT. Scientific Excellence Award 2018
Motto – Don’t give up
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Current position – docent, Dr.sc.ing., TSI/APAC Part-147 quality manager.
Experience – Associate Professor at RKIIGA (1987-1992), Quality Manager for the Wings 4 Sky Group Maintenance Organisation (1995- present), Head of the Wings 4 Sky Group Maintenance Organisation (2013-present)
Teaching activity – Human Factors, Aviation Legislation, Aircraft Avionics Systems, Aircraft Electrical Equipment, Airport Operations Management, Aviation Safety Management System, Maintenance Provision. All programs are bachelor’s level.
Supervised theses – 13 Bachelos,
Research fields/domains – aircraft systems diagnostics, development of the quality system elements for an aircraft maintenance organizations, refinement of sports aircrafts design.
Motto – “Before making a decision – think. It is necessary to make decisions”
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Academic degree and current position in TSI: Lector of Transport and Management Faculty.
Previous experience: 15 years’ experience in Higher Education at Transport and Telecommunication Institute.
Teaching activity: Microeconomics (6ECTS, bachelor level), Macroeconomics (6ECTS, bachelor level), Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship (6ECTS, bachelor level), Marketing (6ECTS, bachelor level), Management and Organization Theory (3ECTS, bachelor level), Essentials of Business Management (6ECTS, bachelor level), Study Project I (3ECTS, bachelor level).
Supervised theses: Supervision of the Bachelor’s Theses (27 Bachelor of Social Sciences in Management)
Research fields/domains: Strategic Management, Economics.
Motto: “Everything happens for a reason”.
Guest Academic Staff
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Rathan Babu Athota (India) has a master’s degree in technology in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology – Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, (which is under Department of Space ), and he is pursuing PhD in Aerospace Engineering in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain). He got academic work experience as an assistant professor in Aeronautical Engineering department in Institute of Aeronautical Engineering (Hyderabad, Telangana India).
He has been actively participating in international scientific projects since 2014. He is specialized in computational fluid dynamics, Aerodynamics, Aircraft propulsion, Aircraft performance and Flight dynamics. Regarding his projects – “Trajectory and Aerodynamics of Spacecraft in Combined Aerocapture and Aerobraking” (2015 –2016) deals with the effect of aerodynamic models on the aerocapture and aerobraking maneuvers for an Earth entry mission. Currently his research work is based on the Investigation of natural energy resources through computational techniques and he is the member of EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY. He has authored scientific publications in the field of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
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