Ph.D. in Aviation

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  1. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

  2. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

    Good for Liberty. They already have a well-established School of Aeronautics offering bachelor's and master's degree programs.

    ERAU has some competition.
     
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  3. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    They're offering it up as a scholarly degree. I have a hard time accepting the idea that Aviation is a scholarly field:

    The dissertation gives you the chance to develop scholarly findings and contribute to the base of knowledge in your field.

    The degree is about the aviation industry:

    This degree covers a wide range of current and historical issues affecting the aeronautic industry. Additionally, you can add to the existing knowledge base in this field through your dissertation.

    THAT is a description of a professional, not scholarly, doctorate. I wonder what the central theory(ies) of Aviation is/are? What, if any, are the contributing theories? And what makes Aviation distinct from others, like business or macroeconomics? Meteorology? Physics?

    And, because it's Liberty, there's this:

    This doctoral aeronautical science degree is designed to help shape you into an aviation leader who is committed to investigating and solving aviation issues through research, educational leadership, and Christian ethical standards. (Emphasis added.)

    Ethics can be part of a discipline's central or controlling theory. (It is in my field.) I wonder what adding the distinction "Christian" does? And since it is called out, must it be addressed in the research process? How?

    A scholarly doctorate is designed to create new theory (knowledge) or test theory, or both. They acknowledge this in their description. (See above where they call it "knowledge base." I wonder what that knowledge base is?

    No answers, just questions and some opinions.
     
  4. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    Speaking of ERAU, I am reminded of the guy who listed on his resume that he graduated from Embry but misspelled it as "Emery Riddle", he resigned from the Wake Tech Board of Trustees: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article240088838.html

    Edit: That article is behind a paywall but here's a Scribd link showing Mako Medical CEO Chad Price's resume with the misspelling intact: https://www.scribd.com/document/445575810/Chad-Price-Resume-Wake
     
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  5. Michael Burgos

    Michael Burgos Active Member

    It localizes the ethical aspect of the program within the Christian tradition as opposed to contemporary alternatives.
     
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  6. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    The curricula for their online aviation and aeronautical programs are awful. They're management programs with planes and airports thrown in. They should just call them aviation management.
     
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  7. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    They actually do in the header, though not in the other references: "Why Choose Liberty’s PhD in Aviation Management Degree?"

    It's not clear the title on the degree since it's so new.
     
  8. freeloader

    freeloader Member

    It seems pretty clearly to be a PhD in Aviation Management.

    I noticed the same phenomenon when I was researching Master of Taxation and MS in Taxation degrees. Liberty has an MS in Accounting with Taxation cognate but the page for the degree bills it in different ways, including as a “Master’s in Taxation Degree”, a Master’s Degree in Taxation”, and even as an “MS in Taxation”: https://www.liberty.edu/online/business/masters/accounting/taxation/

    It is, of course, none of these. And it is a decidedly different degree than a typical MTax/MSTax where all or virtually all of the coursework is in taxation.

    I suppose it had the desired impact insofar as I looked at the Liberty program when I never would have if they were more transparent about what the degree actually is. But then it kind of pissed me off when I realized exactly what the degree was. That probably was less desired.
     
  9. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Which makes my objections to a scholarly doctorate in "Aviation" all the more clear.

    There are tons of professional master's degree programs specializing in all kinds of professions and occupations. But a PhD in "Aviation Management" is really a PhD in Management with some aviation-related stuff tossed in for context. Ugh.
     
  10. Asymptote

    Asymptote Active Member

    Will a graduate of this program be able to fly, as in be a pilot?
     
  11. JBjunior

    JBjunior Active Member

    Certainly, as long as they complete a separate program leading to a pilot’s license.
     
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  12. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

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  13. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    Pretty neat, you can actually get your pilot's license through that program.
     
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  14. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

    It surprises me that Liberty has not jumping into online/hybrid JD program yet.
     

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