About David A. NewMyer Expertise Can advise people thinking about beginning and aviation career and espcially those thinking about an aviation university program. Can also help with aviation scholarship questions. I am particularly strong in questions related to starting a flight career, choosing a university flight or aviation management program, aviation internships and aviation scholarships. Also, I can assist with questions about airport management and planning careers and oveall aviation industry employment questions.
Experience
Past/Present Clients Prepared In addition to aviation education, I work at a major university, I have worked as an airport planner preparing airport system plans, airport master plan and environmental assessment reports for the Chicago area in general and for several
individual Illinois airports.
Question Dear Sir,
I have a strong desire to join aviation industry in india or abroad.I have done bachelor in engineering from national Institute Of Technology, Jamshedpur, in Matallurgical Engineering and material science. I also have work experience in Copper smelter (Vedanta) as engineer.Now, i'm going to pursue MBA From ICFAI hyderabad in operations and Finance subjects.I have done well in college and to the company i worked.
It will be a great help in suggesting me to choose suitable job as per my qualifications.
Few weeks back i came to know about a distance learning course by IATA . Courses are airport operations and airline finance and accounting management (For Details www.iata.org/distancelearning).
I'm interested in these courses and like to know whether would it be beneficial? .
Lastly i can say that my dream company is BOEING and Airbus.
Please do suggest me something valuable as you have great knowledge to share and help needfuls.
Hoping for your reply
Rahul
Answer Hi, Rahul:
It is nice to hear from you....I will try to assist.
I think that the key thing is that you are an engineer and that you are interested in working for Boeing or Airbus...both companies hire significant numbers of engineers. In addition to those two companies, remember that there will be a number of airlines there in India (Spicejet, Kingfisher, Air India and others) that, due to the purchase of a large number of new aircraft, will also need engineers to oversee their aircraft maintenance programs. Also, there are MRO companies (maintenance repair organizations) that will spring up to handle the maintenance contracts for airlines unable or unwilling to do their own major overhaul aircraft maintenance.
There are a number of websites that list aviation jobs, including:
www.airjobsdaily.com
www.aviationemployment.com
www.aeps.com
www.avcrew.com
And, do not forget to consult the Boeing website at www.boeing.com .... remember that Boeing only accepts resumes via their website. Or, for the Airbus company, consult: www.airbus.com/en/
With regard to the IATA on-line courses, yes, ANYTHING that will add aviation knowledge to your education and training will be helpful. It will also show any aviation company with which you apply for a position that you are interested in learning more and, in fact, have already begun to learn more about the aviation inudustry.
I wish you the best of luck in your career search,
David A. NewMyer, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Aviation Management and Flight
Southern Illinois University Carbondale http://www.aviation.siu.edu
