Completion of the first year of the Master's degree programme.
Instruction will focus on seminars that all take one week. The number of seminars offered will vary from year to year depending upon the scope of the topics. Each student must take at least ten seminars, two of which are compulsory.
Each seminar will include lectures, assignments, group work and discussions. This will vary from seminar to seminar.
Attendance to all seminars is compulsory. The method of evaluation may vary from seminar to seminar, but a letter grade or pass/fail will be given for each seminar. The method used within a given seminar will be given at the start of the week.
There are two types of seminars. Some cover themes that are important to logistics, but that for some reason have not been covered in other courses. Other seminars are very specialized, covering theoretical or pracical aspects of themes already well covered in other courses. This way the seminar series brings both depth and width to the students' profiles.
Examples of possible topics in this seminar:
- Vehicle routing
- Customer relationships
- Outsourcing
- Introduction to AMPL
- Advanced use of AMPL
- Business games
- Cross cultural management
- Production models
- Product variety
- Service management
This course includes two seminars related to the master thesis, and both are compulsory for ordinary master degree students. The first one called "Research Design" is about how to write and organize a thesis, the second "Proposal" includes the preparation and presentation (written and oral) of a proposal for the actual thesis to be done in Semester 4. The seminar "Proposal" will always be at the end of LOG904. However, the students are expected to spend all the time not spent on seminars on the preparation of their proposal and thesis. Hence, from a practical viewpoint, the proposal covers a substantial part of the third semester. These two seminars related to the master theses are only open to ordinary master degree students.
Warning: No other courses can usually be taken during autumns when following LOG904 to a full extent.
For exchange students it will be possible to follow individual seminars covering part of the semester with less than 30 ECTS or the whole semester with 30 ECTS. To get 30 ECTS exchange students must take at least 11 seminars.
There will be hand-outs and special material for each seminar. This will be decided by the lecturer responsible for each seminar.
