Master of Science

Aerospace Management

Program Overview

Toulouse English 12 months Full-time

Head of Masters’ Programs: Program Manager:

Anne RIVIERE, PhD Christophe BENAROYA, PhD

Admission Requirements
✓ 4-year Bachelor Degree (240 ECTS) or equivalent
✓ English native language, IELTS 6.5 or equivalent

Program Objective
The MSc Aerospace Management prepares and trains participants to hold managerial positions in
aeronautics, space and airline industries. The option is built around 7 core themes (modules) addressing the
basics in Strategy and international business and the full value chain of Aeronautics and Space from design
to aircraft and space systems delivery, including services and operations, customer support as well as airports,
airlines and other related services. The pedagogy includes classwork, case studies, individual and group
assignments and projects, role-playing games, field studies, workshops and finally the Master research thesis
and the optional Master internship.

Employment and Career Opportunities

✓ Business Developer Aerospace & Defense, ✓ Marketing Manager, Customer Experience
Key Account Manager and Marketing Manager
✓ Sales Manager, Commercial Service Manager, ✓ Retrofit Service Line Manager, Retrofit and
Executive Flight Sales Manager, Commercial Asset Manager
Jet Broker ✓ Project Manager, Upgrade Services Project
✓ Supply Chain Project Manager, Industrial Manager, Export Contact Manager
Purchaser ✓ Financial Controller, Revenue Management
✓ Digital Merdia, Digital Transformation Officer Analyst, Pricing Analyst
✓ Business Consultant
Program Strengths & Benefits
Why should I choose this program?
✓ Refine your personal Aerospace management profile as a manager in existing and emerging regional,
national or international markets in the aerospace sector
✓ Expand your knowledge in Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain & Procurement, Human
Resources, Project Management in the aerospace environment
✓ Meet aerospace professionals coming from a wide range of functions and expertise, finally enabling
you to prepare for the high-flying but also fulfilling careers and lives

How will I benefit from this program?

✓ Make sound and sustainable decisions regarding the aerospace business value chain
✓ Implement operations linked to both local and global strategies in the aerospace sector
✓ Elaborate strategic analysis and relevant professional synthesis coverall organizational, technical,
commercial and financial issues, in order to able to work as a manager
✓ Develop new strategies for organizations by analyzing relevant issues and trends in entrepreneurship
and innovation

Program Design & Content

This program consists of five learning experiences rigorously designed to develop your managerial and
operational skills in your field of professional expertise.

*Internship optional. Mandatory for DD only.

Courses are provided:

✓ 40% by internationally renowned teacher-researchers

✓ 60% by professionals working in the sector
1. Professional Expertise

COURSE UNIT 1 – Issues and Trends in Strategy – 7 ECTS – Semester 1

OBJECTIVE: The successful student will be able to develop new strategies by analyzing relevant issues and
trends impacting organizations. Students are exposed to the choices facing international and
internationalizing firms about which products to offer around the world, how to compete in international
markets, where to locate and how to coordinate their worldwide activities effectively.
Course 1.1: Digital Transformation
• A short history of transformation
• New technologies and trends
• A strategic view of digital transformation
• An organizational view of digital transformation
• An innovation view of digital transformation: repurposing data
Course 1.2: New Business Models
• Business model innovation basics
• Tools to develop new business models
• Advanced topics on BM
Course 1.3: Strategic Foresight
• Analysis of Megatrends
• Strategic Planning
• Strategic Foresight Tools

COURSE UNIT 2 – International Strategy and Organization – 7 ECTS – Semester 1

OBJECTIVE: To expose students to the choices facing international and internationalizing firms about which
products to offer around the world, how to compete in international markets, where to locate and how to
coordinate their worldwide activities effectively.
Course 2.1: Strategy in an international context
• Historical perspectives on the nature of international firms and their strategies
• Competitive advantage, leveraging resources and capabilities
• Competitive strategic positioning in international industries
• International market entry and servicing modes
Course 2.2: Organizing for international business
• Introduction to organizational design thinking
• Theories of the multi-national enterprise
• Structure, organization, and coordination of the MNE
• Knowledge management across borders
Course 2.3: Prospects in Aerospace
• Sustainability and Aviation
• Sustainability and digitalization in Aeronautics
• General aviation: setting new standards, digitalization & environment
• Thrilling life of an aircraft

COURSE UNIT 3 – Flying in aerospace: beyond technologies, an ecosystem & market trends
– Semester 1
OBJECTIVE: To develop students’ understanding of the global aerospace market and environment, train and
obtain students’ capability to dialogue with professionals in Aerospace industry including product, project,
market, management and organizational dimensions.
Course 3.1: Aerospace technical constraints and terminology
• How is an aircraft flying? Aerodynamics & flight physics
• DO/PO/MO2 - Aeronautics Certificate
 Course 3.2: Aerospace markets
• Introduction to aircraft development cycle
• An overview of the space sector and space missions
• Air transport market overview, Airline economics, Airport Management
• Military markets and Drones
Course 3.3: Communication in the Aerospace environment
• Trends in the Aerospace Environment
• Flying higher with your audience

COURSE UNIT 4 – Organizing Aerospace Activities: Managing Complex Projects and

Operations – 7 ECTS – Semester 1
The successful student will be able to elaborate strategic analysis and relevant professional synthesis
covering organizational, technical, commercial, and financial issues, in order to be able to work as a
manager in existing and emerging international projects.
Course 4.1: The management of complex projects
• Space Industry projects. Building a satellite
• How technologies and innovation emerge in aerospace & beyond
• Aerospace Cybersecurity Awareness
• Unveiling airport activities
Course 4.2: International projects and strategies
• Strategic management in Aerospace and Defense
• Alliances and Partnership in air transport
• An international project for Air Transport: The Sesar project
Course 4.3: Operations and services in Air transport and Aerospace businesses
• Air brokerage: business model & operations
• Aviation security
• Business development in space industry
• Aftersales and aftermarket services in Aviation

COURSE UNIT 5 – Issues, Trends and Skills in Aerospace Entrepreneurship and Innovation – 7
ECTS – Semester 2
OBJECTIVE: The successful student will be able to develop new strategies for organizations by analyzing
relevant issues and trends in entrepreneurship and innovation.
Course 5.1: Introduction to intrapreneurship
• Importance and facets of Intrapreneurship
• Entrepreneurs versus Managers within an organization
• Contextualizing intrapreneurship in a variety of organizations
• Crossing the boundaries of intrapreneurship
• Mini case-studies of intrapreneurs and intrapreneurship
Course 5.2: Skills in Aerospace
• Managing competences in the aerospace ecosystem
• Talent in Aerospace
• Implementing change management
Course 5.3: Innovation in Space industry
• Overview of the Space Market
• The disruptions in Space technologies
• Types of potential disruptive innovations
COURSE UNIT 6 – Integrating Marketing & Sales Functions in Aerospace management – 7 ECTS
– Semester 2
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to make sound and sustainable decisions regarding Marketing and Sales
including elementary financial knowledge and practices that are specific to the aerospace business. They
will learn or reinforce the management of the “market” component through elementary marketing
knowledge acquisition and the study of tools and practices that are specific to the aerospace sector.
Course 6.1: Aerospace Marketing
• Aerospace Marketing
• Product management in aviation
• Airport: retail & advertising
• Marketing insights and case study
• Airline business
Course 6.2: Business Development
• Networking in aerospace
• Business development in aeronautics
• Business development projects in space industry

Course 6.3: Sales in Aerospace

• Sales in aeronautics: focus on leasing market
• Aftersales & aftermarket services in aviation
• Aircraft sales general overview
• Contract management in aerospace services

COURSE UNIT 7 – Integrating Supply Chain Management, Finance, Pricing and Law in
Aerospace Management – 7 ECTS – Semester 2
OBJECTIVE: the successful student will be able to make sound and sustainable decisions regarding the
aerospace business value chain and to elaborate and implement operations linked to both local and global
strategies in the aerospace sector, including compliance issues on technical, business and societal levels.
Course 7.1: Supply Chain Management
• The Essential of SCM and Aerospace case study
• Key Enablers for a successful SC Community
• Suppliers Performance management
Course 7.2: Aerospace Finance Awareness
• Accounting and Finance for the Aeronautical industry
• Cash flow management for aeronautics
• Revenue management for Airlines
Course 7.3: Legal issues in aerospace
• Aviation
• Drones
• Space and satellite industries

COURSE UNIT 8 – Research Methods and Dynamics

*A research methodology module offered in Semester 2 provides students with support and guidance for completing their
final masters research thesis.
OBJECTIVE: The successful student will be able to design and conduct a research project with state-of-the-
art research methods and tools in Strategic Innovation Management.
 Course 8.1: Research methods and tools
• Building a literature review
• Qualitative methods
• Quantitative methods
• Advanced Excel tools for quantitative studies / Power BI
• Data visualization applied to aviation
Course 8.2: Advancing the Master dissertation
• Individual supervision and coaching

2. Soft Skills Certificate – 6 ECTS

Certificate designed by 26 professors & leadership and management professionals in collaboration with TBS
Career Starter. “SoftSkills” are intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that create the conditions for a
successful and sustainable team and allows to effectively manage one's career throughout one's life.

OBJECTIVE: to acquire nine key competencies to lead teams and manage one’s professional career
✓ Knowing yourself ✓ Responsible decision-making
✓ Communicating effectively ✓ Managing interpersonal relationships
✓ Long Life Learning skills ✓ Building trust and well-being at work
✓ Building an inspiring vision ✓ Influencing effectively
✓ Leading teams

Career Starter
The Career Starter is an individual coaching platform that helps students define and develop their career
project. Through several lectures, workshops, individual tests and coaching sessions, a specialist will support
each student from their first questions to looking for the right internship or job.
Coaching
We support you in your reflection on your skills, strengths and areas for improvement. Through personality
tests and individual coaching, we link this self-knowledge to your ambitions and career choices.
Personal Branding
You will participate in workshops to build your CV and e-portfolio to best highlight your experiences and skills
for your future employers. You will review your skills with professionals.

3. Consulting Mission – 5 ECTS

1 mission 20 companies 800 students

The SESAME project is a unique exercise that is a major asset of your program. ATBS partner company
submits a current strategic issue to a group of 40 students in a letter of engagement. Students, coached by
the professors, carry out a strategic diagnosis aiming to analyze the competitive position of the company,
then propose strategic and operational recommendations to meet the challenges faced by the company.
✓ The students carry out a real mission of free advice on behalf of a company, an institution or an
association
✓ Learning by doing: put into practice your skills and knowledge

Examples of Partner Companies: Aerospace Valley, AIRBUS, Cap Gemini, Comtesse du Barry, Continental
Automotive, EY, Hilti, Mars Petfoods, Motorola, Thalès, Rockwell & Collins.
4. Professional Master Thesis + In-Company Work Experience – 30 ECTS
OBJECTIVE: Increase your brain agility to anticipate and solve complex business issues in your field of
expertise.

Each student following this MSc program is required to write an individual dissertation.
The objective is to address a current or recent issue in management from an academic or professional
perspective, thus contributing to the study, analysis, formalization and abstraction of the identified problem
or issue as they are related to their professional field of expertise.
This requires students to develop a wide range of capabilities by drawing knowledge from both the
academic and professional literature, as well as from the various MSc courses.
The dissertation should:
✓ For students doing an internship: be developed around a major management issue related to the
mission of the internship
✓ For students not doing an internship: be based on a convincing literature review

In both cases, students are required to refer to a substantial number of academic articles, as well as
professional articles if and where they are appropriate. In this work, the student is expected to clearly
highlight his/her contribution from a personal and critical analysis standpoint.
The contribution expected from students is essentially geared towards personal and professional
development.

The write-up should reflect:

✓ Motivation – justification of the choice of the research problem or issue
✓ Resourcefulness – ability to initiate and conceptualize a piece of research
✓ Creativity and Common Sense – demonstration of a structured and logical methodology
✓ Cross-functionality – demonstration of a multidimensional approach to problem-solving

Between April and October, the student can do an internship in a company of their choice, in the country of
their choice. This internship is optional and is not a necessary a condition for graduation. However, TBS
encourages its students to complete this internship to supplement their training with a long professional
experience in business (from 4 to 6 months), a guarantee of a better professional integration.

Cost and Funding Proposal

Tuition Fees: 18000 euros – including:
✓ All academic fees, including business visits
✓ Access to our virtual campus and online educational resources
✓ Access to career starter services (CV workshop, business forum, etc.)
✓ Access to a network of 40,000+ alumni

Funding

Scholarship: TBS is entitled to receive higher education scholarship students: mobility grants, state
scholarships, merit scholarships (Eiffel, Marie Curie), TBS Foundation scholarships. (contact the school)
Personalized Schedule: TBS welcomes students who wish to discuss their personal situation. TBS
grants payment schedules from 1 to 6 monthly instalments during the course.
Student Jobs: our student associations offer paid assignments on behalf of companies or individuals
throughout the year.
Student Testimonials

Conor Bradley, MSc Aerospace Management 2018-2019

“My initial expectations were that I would gain a broad understanding of the aerospace industry through the
various modules offered. I was pleasantly surprised at how vast the course content was, the standard of teaching
and at the level of knowledge I had acquired by the end of the master.
The size and the diversity of the class was something that greatly appealed to me allowing for group discussions
and ensuring varying opinions and insights from different countries around the world. I greatly appreciated the
opportunity to have lectures from senior people in these industries: ask questions freely to individuals that have
years of experience was extremely beneficial to my learning.
Thanks to the Aerospace Master, I have gained an understanding of the overall Aerospace environment, I feel
that the knowledge that I acquired throughout the masters really stood me in good stead when interviewing for
my internship position at Airbus and proved very useful to me throughout the duration of my internship.
Following on from the courses and internship that I have completed in this sector, I plan to continue to work in
this fascinating and ever-evolving industry in the future.”

Sylvain Deiva, MSc Aerospace Management 2018-2019

“When the MSc were presented to me and having talked to the M2 students, I finally chose Aerospace
Management. The ex-Aerospacer feedback and the curriculum presented to us convinced me. The classes are
varied and deal with the Airline sector (Revenue Management, Partnerships between Airlines ...), aerospace
(Aerodynamics, Aerospace Marketing...), and Space (satellite launches, Space Industry contracts ...). Thanks to
this curriculum, I was able to gain essential theoretical knowledge in these 3 industries.
Something which I found to have the greatest added value, were the press reviews about the news and current
industry trends, and also the Strategic Group Work, a consulting mission for an aerospace company,
I really appreciated the links with professional when we visited companies or talked to the teachers and
practitioners, very useful for networking and knowledge sharing.
Overall, the Aerospace course brought coherence to my professional career, a fundamental and essential
grounding in technical know-how which are just indispensable to anyone who wants to be a manager in the
Aerospace sector and enable me to pursue my project. I’ve decided to continue on this career path by doing a VIE
in the Asia-Pacific region, in the airline or aerospace sectors.”