Advanced Seminar (SoSe)

We offer an advanced seminar every semester. The seminar is designed to teach skills to you which you will need to succeed in writing a master thesis with us.

The course topic varies irregularly, currently the topic is: sustainable transportation systems. To participate in this course, you have to enroll via TUMonline.

Mandatory Prerequisites

• Modeling and Optimization in Operations Management (or comparable course)

• Good knowledge in programming and modeling with Python / Gurobi (or comparable programming experience)

• Recommended: Good knowledge in a high-level programming language (e.g., C++)

Syllabus

Transportation systems are seen as some of the most pervasive and influential systems in any society or economy as they are key enabler for central achievements, e.g., individual mobility, trade, globalization, and wealth. Accordingly, designing such systems in a sustainable way remains a key challenge for today’s cities and researchers. Here, a variety of new concepts evolved, e.g., autonomous mobility on demand systems for urban passenger transport, the electrification of (urban) logistics fleets, smart grids that capture the interplay between electric vehicle charging and the power network, micro hub networks in city logistics, intermodal and multimodal transport, mobility as a service applications.
In this seminar, we cover recent enhancements in these fields and learn how to implement large-scale algorithms that are amenable for application in practice.

Timeline [preliminary]

 

Participation in the lectures and presentations is compulsory. The lectures and presentations will be held in person on the TUM campus in Munich.

Q&A sessions via Zoom or in person on the dates without lectures.

Topic

You will be working on a case-study with a focus on sustainable transportation systems. We will present and discuss the case study in the first two sessions.

Grading

The grading bases on the intermediate presentation (10%), the final presentation (25%) and the written report (65%). 

Enrollment

This course is both in high demand and challenging; if you want to participate in this course, make sure that you do not miss the following steps:

1. Enroll via TUMonline during the application period.

2. Please send us a brief application until the end of the application period, including a CV and your transcript of records, indicating that you meet the mandatory prerequisites to lehre.bais@mgt.tum.de.

3. After the assignments are carried out, if you wish to deregister, send a mail to seminars@mgt.tum.de including the deregistration form . Only then, you can be assigned a fixed place in another seminar.

4. To stay enrolled, you have to attend the first lecture. If you got assigned to our waiting list, we recommend that you also attend the first lecture to move up if somebody else does not attend.