📋 About the Department
Aviation technology is a leading engineering science that continues to evolve, linked to the latest scientific research in the field of aviation. This science has branched into numerous departments and sub-branches, including those focused on engine development, airframes and their development, and aircraft fuel, etc. All these sciences contribute to the single field of aviation technology. Due to the country’s development, its openness to the world, and the establishment of numerous airports, and to supply the job market with specialized technical personnel in this rare field, the Department of Aviation Technology was established at the Technical Institute/Najaf, as per the Al-Furat Technical University’s letter No. 7/27/952 dated October 27, 2014.
🎯 Vision, Message, Objectives, and Graduate Job Description
The Department of Aviation Technology aspires to be one of the most important departments in educational technical institutes in the field of aviation sciences in the Middle East within the next five years.
- To develop the competitiveness of the department as an educational institution in the field of technical education within Iraq and at the Arab world level.
- To raise the efficiency and effectiveness of scientific research within the department and foster active participation and cooperation with research institutions in the local, regional, and international communities.
- To increase the department’s capacity to contribute to community service and environmental development, and to activate the institute’s specialized units.
- Language of Instruction: Instruction in this department is exclusively in English. Summer training in the first year will be eight weeks long, five days a week, with each session calculated as six practical hours per week. Students must pass this training with a passing grade, but it will not be included in the overall graduation grade.
- All courses follow an annual system.
- The student’s grade in the first year represents 40% of the overall grade, and the student’s grade in the second year represents 60% of the overall grade.
2. Ability to understand mechanical designs and drawings.
3. Work in the maintenance of thermal engines and steam turbines in power plants.
4. Engine maintenance and upkeep (engine engineering).
5. Work in power plants where the most important component is the turbine, which operates on thermal or alternative energy.
Aviation Technician
Civil and military airports / Civil Aviation Authority / Turbine-powered power plants.
1. Routine maintenance of aircraft parts
2. Work in airport maintenance workshops
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