Operations Management - Project Course

Aim

Operations Management – Project course is a course that prepare the student for the master’s thesis project. The course contains two parts, one part with theoretical aspects of the thesis process, and one part with a project in close collaboration with industry or university.

The student is expected to demonstrate the ability to:

• Acquire and systematically integrate significantly in-depth methodological knowledge and subject-related knowledge in the main field of study
• Plan and carry out a major investigation work with a professional approach
• Show the ability to work together with other students in a project group
• Formulate questions, delimit and answer these within given time frames
• Present a major investigative work by professionally expressing themselves in writing and orally
• Critically review and discuss an orally presented and written investigative work by another student
• Make assessments about applicable ethical and societal conditions such as economically, socially and ecologically sustainable development

Content

• Research methods in Operations Management, such as in a structured way break down and clarify a problem, to analyze and draw conclusions on a substantiated way.
• Data collection, interviews, surveys, and data capture.
• Report-writing methodology, presentation and opposition.