Completion of the first year of the Master's degree program.
Each seminar is usually taught Monday to Friday in one week, with a mix of lectures, assignments, group work and discussions. Attendance is mandatory to all classes.
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 announced at the start of the week.
After finishing the seminar series, the students will have gained a broader and deeper level of skills and understanding in several subject areas relevant to logistics and supply chain management. On top of the background established through the completion of the first year of the MSc program in logistics, the seminar series will provide additional theoretical and technical capabilities that will help the students in the research process for the master thesis.
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 practical aspects of themes already well covered in other courses. This way the seminar series brings both depth and width to the student's knowledge.
Examples of possible topics in this seminar:
- Vehicle routing
- Customer relationships
- Outsourcing
- Introduction to AMPL
- Business games
- Cross cultural management
- Production models
- Product variety
- Service management
- Distribution mangement
- Stochastic modeling and optimization
- Simulation
The series 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.
Note: 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.
The exact program for the seminar series will normally be available before semester start at the MSc Logistics home page
There will be hand-outs and special material for each seminar. This will be decided by the lecturer responsible for each seminar.
