Global Aerospace Campus

The virtual Global Aerospace Campus was launched by Munich Aerospace in 2016 out of the Regional Leaders Summit (RLS)*. Since then, more than 600 projects have been implemented on a bilateral and multi-regional level.

RLS is a scientific network with 7 partner regions worldwide for international education, exchange, and cooperation. The Global Aerospace Campus accelerates international exchange on innovations and global challenges in the field of aerospace.

There are three interconnected measures to implement the goals of the Global Aerospace Campus:

• international conferences
• online courses for students and young professionals
• the opportunity for international research cooperation or publications.

Establishment & objectives

Through international coordination, the technological innovations of today can meet the global challenges of tomorrow. To shape technological change in a sustainable way, heads of government from seven partner regions meet every two years at the Regional Leaders’ Summit (RLS).

In 2016, the scientific network RLS-Global Aerospace Campus emerged out of it. It offers researchers and specialists in the high-tech aerospace industry an ecosystem for international education, exchange, and cooperation.

Partner regions & coordination

Scientists from the seven partner regions coordinate the international exchange:

• Bavaria
• Québec
• São Paulo
• Western Cape
• Upper Austria
• Georgia
• Shandong

Professor Klaus Drechsler

Member of the Munich Aerospace Executive Board, Chair of Carbon Composites at Technical University of Munich

info(at)munich-aerospace.de

Professor Luis Rodrigues

Member of the Montreal Aerospace Institutes, Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University in Montréal

luis.rodrigues(at)concordia.ca

Professor William Roberto Wolf

Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at University of Campinas

wolf(at)fem.unicamp.br

Dr Jaa (Japie) Engelbrecht

Senior Lecturer for Aerospace Control Systems at Stellenbosch University

jengelbr(at)sun.ac.za

Professor Roland Markus Hinterhölzl

Head of Research Group for Lightweight Construction and Composite Materials at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

roland.hinterhoelzl(at)fh-wels.at

Professor Dimitri Mavris

Director of the Aerospace System Design Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology

dimitri.mavris(at)aerospace.gatech.edu

Professor Ning Guo

Associate Professor, Doctoral supervisor, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai Shandong

Academy of Sciences

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Conferences

Since 2016, aerospace researchers have been organising scientific events in seven partner regions on various topics.

E-learning

The e-learning programme of the Global Aerospace Campus is an advanced education programme for students and young professionals interested in aerospace. International lecturers from teaching, industry and research highlight current and future-oriented aerospace topics in the courses. So far, three MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) have been published on the Coursera learning platform as part of the Global Aerospace Campus:

• Urban Air Mobility
• Space Safety
• Digitalisation in Aeronautic and Space

The international lecturers come from teaching, industry and research. Our members include the Technical University of Munich, the German Aerospace Centre, the University of the Bundeswehr Munich and Bauhaus Luftfahrt.

The online course “Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space” provides up-to-date knowledge about the implication of digitalisation in aerospace industry in terms of methodologies, strategies and way of thinking. I am personally impressed by the carefully selected group of professional instructors from well reputed universities and aerospace industry in Germany. Thank you!

Dalia AltaherAircraft Program Manager, Collins Aerospace, Doha, Qatar

Munich Aerospace’s online course has widened my views on industrial activities and research streams related to the digitalisation of processes and products. The course covers the integration of emerging digital technologies into the whole product lifecycle, from design and development to manufacturing and verification up to deployment and operations.

Dr. Riccardo BenenutoSystems Engineer and Project Manager, OHB System AG, Bremen, Germany

The Global Aerospace Campus is vetted by experts from reputed aerospace organisations and academia. The flexibility to chose modules is a speciality of the first online course on Digitalisation. As an aerospace professional, the course has provided me invaluable knowledge in the aspects of digitalisation in aerospace industry.

Gracio Joyal Lobo

Munich Aerospace’s online course provides a top-notch representation of what is to expect for the future aerospace industry through a very well put together course structure, by world-class experts, on the most recent concepts and technologies. The course shares the general mindset essential to make the aerospace industry fit for future. That is one of a kind in the aerospace sector.

Sara Sadeghloo Aerospace Engineer/Strategy Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berlin, Germany

The course is an excellent opportunity to get updated with the ongoing efforts on Digitalisation in Aerospace and shows how leading aerospace institutions handle this big challenge.

Aldo Díaz, PhD Research associate, University of Campinas, Brazil

The Munich Aerospace online course “Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space” is provided by a world-class institute, with renowned teachers, offering the flexibility to follow it from anywhere, at my own pace.

Marion Stoffel Portfolio R-D Project Manager, CRIAQ, Montreal, Canada

The Global Aerospace Campus online course greatly helps to understand current engineering trends and gives a unique online learning experience with high quality and well-structured content. Especially in the Human Factors 4.0 class, a conversation between human and robot provided a forward-looking experience.

Gnanavel Chandramohan Systems Engineer, Infin8 Initiative, Hauteville-Lompnes, France

Lectures

The Impulse “lecture series” combines lecture recordings by researchers and experts on current developments in the field of aerospace. All lectures are recorded live and in front of an audience. All lectures were recorded live and in front of an audience. The lecture series includes:

• Gianluigi Liva on “Communication Techniques for Large Scale Satellite IoT Systems”
• Global Aerospace Campus panelists from 5 countries on “Advanced (Urban) Air Mobility”
• Munich Aerospace Executive Mirko Hornung on “Advanced (Urban) Air Mobility” at MTL CONNECT 2021
• ESA-Generaldirektor Aschbacher: Europa braucht einen Raumfahrt-Boost – was kann Bayern beitragen?
• GAC.impulse: A robot named Pepper interviews Harald Schaub about the Human Factor in Industry
• Xiaoxiang Zhu spricht über ‚AI and Earth Observation’
• Klaus Schilling spricht über ‚Minisatelliten – kleine, vernetzte, kooperierende Satelliten‘

Funding opportunities for researchers

Information on international funding opportunities is provided for scientists at the Global Aerospace Campus here:https://www.rls-sciences.org/aerospace-funding.html

Contributors

Since the launch of the Global Aerospace Campus in 2016, various organisations have contributed: