Final papers
Topics at the Chair Industrial Management
The topics for theses arise mainly from current research and practical projects of the chair. Therefore, they mostly deal with complex planning problems from production or logistics. In addition, exciting optimization tasks often arise in other areas, such as railroad operations, timetabling, hospital operations or forest management. Mostly, modern methods of operations research and business analytics are applied in final theses, so that also more methodically oriented topics are assigned. In principle, it is possible to submit your own topic for a thesis (e.g. in cooperation with a company). In this case, however, it must be ensured that the topic is suitable for a thesis in terms of content and fits the orientation of the professorship.
A (non-exhaustive) list of current open topics or subject areas can be found here.
Admission requirements
In order to write your bachelor, master or diploma thesis with the Chair of Industrial Management all formal requirements stipulated by the applicable examination regulations must be fulfilled. Furthermore, students must have successfully completed a seminar paper at the Chair (Bachelor: Trends im Industriellen Management; Master/Diploma: Aktuelle Forschungsfragen, Advanced Approaches, or IM Challenge) and must have completed, or intend to complete, the profile Operations and Logistics Management. As theses are generally prepared using the LaTeX document preparation system, corresponding knowledge and skills, as taught in the seminar "Instrumente und Anwendungen des industriellen Managements", are required. Given the quantitative orientation of the Chair's research, applicants with programming skills are particularly encouraged to apply for a thesis.
You can apply for your desired topic by sending the completed application form together with your overview of all grades from HISQIS/SELMA (PDF-file) to . Within 14 days we will get back to you, whether you can write your thesis with the Chair. You will get a concrete topic to work on only in a meeting with your supervisor!
Currently available topics for your thesis can be found here.
To get an overview of completed Bachelor theses click here.
In order to write a Master or Diploma thesis it is mandatory to attend the preliminary research design. It consists of an exposé (20 pages plus a rough arrangement and literature) as well as a 30-minute presentation. The motivation and the essential objectives of the thesis are presented in the first-mentioned. Furthermore, the proposed approach and the necessary methods are to be demonstrated, whereby a coarse arrangement should be derived from it. The exposé should be delivered one month after starting the research design. Subsequently, you can start working on the Master/ Diploma thesis. The second part of the research design takes place about half of the editing time by presenting the results to date. Therefore, the current editing status has to be submitted to the supervisor one week before the presentation.
As the research design covers the same topic as the Master/ Diploma thesis, the application addresses both the research design and the final thesis. Please submit the completed application form together with your overview of all grades from HISQIS/SELMA (PDF-file) to . Within 14 days, we will get back to you.
Currently available topics for your thesis can be found here.
To get an overview of ongoing and completed Master/ Diploma theses click here.
Writing scientific papers with LaTeX
The chair provides a LaTeX template via ShareLaTeX as well as a guide for writing scientific papers. Important hints for a thesis are summarized briefly on a handout . Additionally, there is a powerpoint template for presentations.
Note on the LaTeX template: The template is provided by the Share-LaTeX service of the ZIH . You have two options for using the template. Either you create a copy of the template in your own Share-LaTeX directory or you download the ZIP archive. Both options are available at the link above under "Menu" (upper left corner).
A detailed introduction to working with LaTeX is given in the course Instrumente und Anwendungen des Industriellen Managements.