Transcript The Master Thesis project in OML and IM

Mentor Selection
Information Session
Master’s program
Operations Management & Logistics
Tarkan Tan
OML MSc Program Director
Agenda
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General Information on the Procedure
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Research Areas
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Finding the most suitable mentor for you
4.
Honors Tracks
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Q&A
http://studiegids.tue.nl/graduate-school/masteropleidingen/operationsmanagement-logistics/afstuderen/mentor-selection-imoml/
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General information on the
procedure
Master Program Time Line
Semester 1
Semester 2
Semester 3
Semester 4
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Mentor A ssignment Form
Electives Form
June 2015
Mentor selection
Approval Start MTP Form
Start MTP Form
End MTP Form
Assessment Form
Fall 2016
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Mentor selection procedure IM/OML
• To participate in the mentor selection process, students should have been registered till
March 11, 2015 in OASE (course code 1MC10).
• 19 Mar – 19 Apr: orientation phase
• 20 Apr – 19 May: free market phase: have meetings with (short
listed) mentors for an interview, no commitments
• 20 May – 12 Jun: mentor/student decisions
if match, then student fills in mentor selection form
and hands it in at education administration office
• 29 May – 12 Jun: OASE shows up-to-date overview of still available
mentors. Students without mentor can contact them;
• 13 Jun – 19 Jun: students still without a mentor will be allocated
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Mentor selection procedure OML
• Student applies at prospective mentor
• Student can apply (request interviews) at multiple
mentors simultaneously
• Note that it can happen that a mentor receives too
many requests for interviews; then the mentor may
reject some interview requests based upon the
submitted information (statement/motivation,
resume/CV, grade list)
• Mentor decides on students autonomously
• Request advice at OML mentor matching advisor:
dr.ir. S.D.P. Flapper
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Mentor guidance during Master program
• Month 1: start of Master program
• Month 3-5: matching with one of the mentors
• discuss with mentor general interest, and electives
program for second and third semester, including
international term (formal approval)
• Month 6-17: Master Thesis preparation
• meet bimonthly with mentor to discuss research
topic and questions, possible company involvement
• role of mentor is role model researcher,
accompanies the student in selecting a good
(design-oriented) research question
• Month 18-24: Master Thesis (full time)
• guidance during thesis project
Core and elective
courses
Semester 2
Application to
one of the mentors,
first contact
Semester 1
Semester 3
Semester 4
Master thesis preparation
bi-monthly meetings
Core and elective
courses
Core and elective
courses
Master Thesis Project
bi-weekly meetings
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Final qualifications of Master program
• Disciplinary knowledge
• Independently conduct a research project (thesis
project)
• development of new knowledge and insights in a
purposeful and methodical way
• Construct a (re)design of a business process, based
on this research project
• synthetic activity aimed at the realisation of new/modified
artefacts, creating value in accordance with predefined
requirements
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Master Thesis Project
• 30 cp (840hrs), one full time semester
• Student should spend at least 20% of time on campus
• Self-contained (i.e., includes essentials of preliminary work)
• Formal formatting requirements (max. 50 pages, uncensored, poster)
• Judged by mentor and second assessor
(check by examination board)
• See Thesis Manual at http://studiegids.tue.nl/graduateschool/masteropleidingen/operations-managementlogistics/afstuderen/thesis-preparation-and-project-imoml
Core and elective
courses
Semester 2
Application to
one of the mentors,
first contact
Semester 1
Semester 3
Semester 4
Master thesis preparation
bi-monthly meetings
Core and elective
courses
Core and elective
courses
Master Thesis Project
bi-weekly meetings
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Master Thesis Project
• Master thesis evaluation criteria:
• Thesis
− Scientific quality and scope
− Quality of research method
− Quality of solution
− Written communication
• Process and other skills
− Project management and planning
− Internal and external cooperations
− Academic attitude
− Societal awareness
− Oral communication
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Master Thesis Preparation
• 10 cp (280 hrs), Semesters 2 and 3
• Product after Semester 2: literature review (1ML05), max. 25 pgs
• scoping of the research area
• literature study
• identification of relevant research questions
• Product after Semester 3: research proposal (1MR05), max. 25 pgs
• definition and discussion of research questions
• research design (methodology)
• project plan (timing)
Judged by mentor and second assessor
Core and elective
courses
Semester 2
Application to
one of the mentors,
first contact
Semester 1
Semester 3
Semester 4
Master thesis preparation
bi-monthly meetings
Core and elective
courses
Core and elective
courses
Master Thesis Project
bi-weekly meetings
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Further information
• Website displays all necessary information
• research areas and list of mentors
• dates in the procedure
• important forms (e.g., assignment, electives, start thesis project)
http://studiegids.tue.nl/en/graduate-school/mastersprograms/
• Electives Form: hand in before Dec 1, 2015
Fill in correctly to prevent delays!
− 120 ects: all listed courses will officially become part of your program
− Going abroad: international courses to be listed: to be approved by mentor
− Restricted electives (max 30 cp): to be approved by your mentor
Core and elective
courses
Semester 2
Application to
one of the mentors,
first contact
Semester 1
Semester 3
Semester 4
Master thesis preparation
bi-monthly meetings
Core and elective
courses
Core and elective
courses
Master Thesis Project
bi-weekly meetings
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How to find a company
• Please look for a company for your Master thesis
project/internship together with your mentor.
• Also explore your own network!
• Or search via the internet
• Always consult with your mentor
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Research Areas within the
OML Program
Select an area based on the matrix on
http://studiegids.tue.nl (mentor classification OML)
Case/Action research / Trienekens
Interviews
Sector experiments
Lab/field
Banking
Stats/econometrics
Consultancy/Services
Formal
modeling
Energy
Van Houtum,
Flapper, Tan, Basten,
High Eruguz
Tech
Arts, Topan,
Healthcare
Simulation
Flapper, Tan, Eruguz
High-Tech
Surveys/Diary studies
Logistics Services
Theoretical/conceptual
Process Industry
Data mining
Logistics Services
Retail
Design research
General
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Maintenance & reliability
Supply chain
Manufacturing
Financing
E-business
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Transportation
Port and terminal operations
Financing
E-business
Sustainability
Business Process Management
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Quantifying the effect of
Business Process Redesign
on ecological sustainability
within ITIL V3
Mentor: Dr Rik Eshuis
Company: Accenture
Student: Tim Slotboom
Consultancy
Business Process
Management
Formal modeling
Research Questions
• How can ITIL V3 processes become more
ecologically sustainable using Business Process
Redesign?
• RQ 1: which subset of ITIL processes is relevant for ecologically
sustainable business process redesign?
• RQ 2: what role does business process redesign play in ecological
sustainability within ITIL V3?
• RQ 3: what is the quantitative impact of business process redesign
on the carbon footprint reduction for an ITIL V3 case study?
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RQ1: part of a selected ITIL process
/ name of department
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RQ2: Green BPR Best Practices Selection
Extension of Devil’s Quadrangle
• Method:
• Online-surveys
• Hypotheses:
• H1: The subset of BPR best practices does have a significant
impact on ecological sustainability and
is therefore valid.
• H2: The subset of BPR best practices improving ecological
sustainability is complete.
• Variables in CO2
• Travel
• Electricity
• Paper-use
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RQ3: Implementation at a Case Study
Final Results
• Improvements per year (Absolute / Relative)
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Travel: 1455 kgCO2 / 18%
Electricity: 21 kgCO2 / 2%
Paper: 137 kgCO2 / 37%
Total: 1612 kgCO2 / 20% = Equal to electricity consumption of 1,10
households (CBS, 2012)
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How to increase the
performance of project teams
Mentor: Prof Eva Demerouti
Company: Multiple
Student: Roland van de Kerkhof
Multiple/general
Team work
Survey / Action
research
How to increase performance of project teams
Author: Roland van de Kerkhof
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Evangelia Demerouti
What is the reason for and objective of the intervention?
• Teams are essential for the production of many
organizations as they have to produce/develop high quality
products within short time frames.
• The goal of this study is to develop an intervention that can
enhance performance of teams.
How can performance of teams be increased?
By …
• 1. increasing individual and team work engagement
• 2. setting group-relevant and difficult goals (participatory)
Model
How to increase performance of project teams
Author: Roland van de Kerkhof
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Evangelia Demerouti
Why are these factors important?
Because they increase willingness and ability of individuals to invest
effort in team relevant and high-achievement goals.
How is the study designed?
• Experimental group was instructed to set SMART*, group-relevant
and difficult goals; control group was instructed to set grouprelevant goals
• *SMART= Specific, Measurable, Attainable,
Relevant, Time bound
How to increase performance of project teams
Author: Roland van de Kerkhof
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Evangelia Demerouti
• On-line questionnaire & instructions for interventions
• Team performance rated by the supervisor; all other
constructs rated by the team members (including the
setting of the goal)
• 49 teams and their supervisors agreed to participate
( high relevance of the topic for organizations)
Redesign of the maintenance
concept development
framework for Heineken
Mentor: Dr Simme Douwe Flapper
Company: Heineken Zoeterwoude
Student: Merel de Bruijn
Process Industry
Maintenance and
Reliability
Conceptual Modeling
; Statistics
Problem introduction
Heineken Zoeterwoude
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Problem introduction
Production line 7
OPI-Nona: Operational Performance Indicator – No order
no activity.
Produced output as percentage of the theoretical output
in that time.
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Problem introduction
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16%
Target Breakdown time
15%
Breakdown time
14%
13%
12%
Target Minor stops
Minor stops
11%
10%
9%
8%
7%
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
Minor stop: unplanned stop < 5 minutes
Breakdown: unplanned stop > 5 minutes
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Problem introduction
Unplanned downtime (2012, Jan - Aug)
30000
Minor stop
Time [Minutes]
25000
Breakdown
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
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Research question
Can Heineken Zoeterwoude increase the OPI-Nona of
production line 7, through reduction of the breakdown
time of the packers, by improving the maintenance
concept of that technical system, taking a budget
restriction into account?
Maintenance concept: Collection of rules that describe
maintenance;
when to do what for which component, how to do it and by
whom.
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Redesigned framework
Maintenance policy: Basic rule
prescribing when to execute
maintenance at a component
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Redesigned framework
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Application on packer
• 13.848 minutes unplanned downtime
• Maintenenance budget €100.000
• Stopday every 2 weeks – 6 hours
• Not much data registered
• Unreliable data
• Developed Bill of Materials
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Application on packer
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Application on packer
• Unplanned downtime: 13k min
• Budget: € 97k
• Implemented!
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Conclusion
• Maintenance concept for the packers
• Fulfilling the maximal acceptable unplanned downtime
• Within the maintenance budget
• Redesigned framework for the review and
development of a maintenance concept
• Fulfilling specific objectives within cost restrictions
• New maintenance policies
• Different maintenance policy decision process
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Finding the mentor that is
best for you
Topics
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Questions to ask yourself
Meeting with dr. Flapper (dr. Slikker until April 8)
Meetings with potential mentors
After the meetings with potential mentors
1. Questions to ask yourself before
Write the answers to the following questions down
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What do you want to do after your master study? Why?
What do you want to get out of your master project? Why?
What are your strong / weak points? Why?
What do you want and what are you able to contribute to
development of new knowledge? Why? - Methodology and
type of problem – list top 3
What type of organization would you like your thesis to focus
on? Why? – function and industry sector
What are the characteristics of the best master thesis mentor
for you? For what do you want most support, for what less?
Why?
2. OPTIONAL:
Meeting with S.D. Flapper / M. Slikker
Duration: +/- 20 minutes, so be prepared well!
Request for meeting via email ([email protected],
[email protected]) with some alternative days/hrs that would fit
your time schedule. FCFS processing.
Preparation: bring with you/send 1 working day before meeting
per email (in English)
• your answers to questions 1-6.
• Resume/CV
• Transcript of your undergraduate (Bachelor) degree
• Courses you are currently taking in the Master and
(partial/assignment) grades obtained
3. Meetings with potential mentors
• Be well-prepared for the meeting.
• Try to assess whether it will be a good match
between the two of you.
• Make sure that you give a fair representation of
yourself.
• Make sure that the questions that you have about the
mentor are answered.
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After the meetings with potential mentors
• Try to assess which mentors will meet your
expectations.
• Be prompt in responding to the mentors.
• Go for a second round, if necessary.
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PDEng & PhD
honors tracks
A challenge to excel
What is an honours track?
• A number of special courses,
• with a total load of 20 ECTS (as extra ECTS),
• offered to a selection of master students,
• to test and develop capabilities for
• Design: PDEng Logistics Management Systems (LMS),
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• Research: PhD.
Honors track in Design (HiD)
Offered by the following HiD mentors:
• Prof. Dr. Ir. Jan Fransoo
• Prof. Dr. Ir. Paul Grefen
• Prof. Dr. Ir. Geert-Jan van Houtum
• Prof. Dr. Ton de Kok
• Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Romme
• Prof. Dr. Tom van Woensel
(other professors may be added if desired)
Honors track in Design (HiD)
• A 20 ECTS choice from LMS core courses:
- Design of Advanced Planning Processes
- Simulation for Design
- Programming for Design
- Software Development for Design
- Management of Organizational Change and
Implementation
- Project Management in Innovation Processes
- Design Assignment in Designated Areas,
In addition, one can do 10 ECTS as elective.
Honors track in Design (HiD)
Design Assignments involve:
- Assessing the value of knowledge from master
courses for solving company problems,
- Company visits,
- Company presentations.
Grading based on:
- value for company,
- innovativeness of solutions.
Honors track in Design (HiD):
Advantages
• Development of extra design skills
• Ideal preparation for continuation in the LMS program
after completion of the master program
• Priority for positions within the LMS program of Industrial
Engineering (but, we give no guarantee)
• LMS program can be done within 14-16 instead of 20
months
Honors track in Design (HiD)
• If completed successfully, access to the LMS
program,
• On a contract to prepare for and execute a design
project for a specific company,
• Supervised by design mentor.
Further information: Prof. Van Woensel (director LMS)
For applications: Contact Prof. Van Woensel (or one of
the HiD mentors)
Criteria for selection: Among top 15% of all students +
design attitude
Honors track in Research (HiR)
Offered by the following HiR mentors:
• Prof. Dr. Eva Demerouti
• Prof. Dr. Ir. Jan Fransoo
• Prof. Dr. Ir. Paul Grefen
• Prof. Dr. Ir. Geert-Jan van Houtum
• Prof. Dr. Jan de Jonge
• Prof. Dr. Ir. Uzay Kaymak
• Prof. Dr. Ton de Kok
• Prof. Dr. Fred Langerak
• Prof. Dr. Ed Nijssen
• Prof. Dr. Tom van Woensel
(other professors may be added if desired)
Honors track in Research (HiR)
• Consists of:
• Two mini-research projects to discover two different research
fields, in 1st year (5 ects per project)
• PhD courses, in 2nd year (10 ects)
• Master thesis project:
• Topic and supervisor chosen at the end of 1st year
• Is preceded by the writing of a PhD research proposal (instead of
literature study and formulation thesis assignment)
• Proposal can be used to compete for grants (at e.g. NWO)
• Master thesis is on first part of the PhD research proposal
• Additional PhD courses can be followed in 2nd year of
master, as part of the electives
Honors track in Research (HiR):
Advantages
• Development of extra research skills
• Ideal preparation for continuation as PhD student after
completion of the master program
• Priority for positions within the PhD program of Industrial
Engineering (but, we give no guarantee)
• PhD program can be done in 3-3.5 instead of 4 years
• Equivalent to research (Mphil) masters, as seen at
Tilburg University and Erasmus University
Honors track in Research (HiR)
Further information: Prof. Grefen (director Graduate
Program Industrial Engineering)
For applications: Contact Prof. Grefen
Criteria for selection: Among top 15% of the IM/OML
students + research attitude
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