Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• have gained in-depth knowledge of the development of quantitative operations management (OM) models on real life problems. The knowledge could be gained in a development project:

  • with one or more companies or public organisations

Skills

• be able to develop, test and demonstrate the limitations of quantitative methods for Operations Management

• be able to compare and evaluate theoretical and experimental results

• be able to critically evaluate applied methods and their results

Competences

• possess the ability to identify opportunities for implementing quantitative methods from operations management
• be able to develop Operations Management techniques that can be implemented in an industrial, service or public organisation
• be able to evaluate the impact of implementing the developed methods

Type of instruction

Projekt work including PBL elements.

Extent and expected workload

This is a 15 ECTS project module and the work load is expected to be 450 hours for the student.

Exam

Exams