Bachelor & Master theses

You have the opportunity to write Bachelor's and Master's theses on the various topics of Operations Management. As part of the Master's thesis with research seminar you also have the opportunity to write term papers at our chair.

Bachelor theses

The chair offers a Bachelor's final seminar (german) in summer term 2025. Bachelor's thesis topics can be chosen from the following subject areas. A concretization and the determination of the exact topic will be made in consultation with the supervisors.
The formal allocation of places for Bachelor's theses is organized centrally at the Faculty of economics and management.

Here you can find further information on the central allocation process, such as eLearning access and the timetable.

Master theses

For the coming semester, as in the previous semester, the Chairs of Operations Management, Management Science and Data-Driven Decision Support will jointly organize the assignment of Master's thesis topics.

Therefore, it is imperative that you apply for a topic, if you intend to write your Master's thesis at one of these three chairs. To do so, please complete the following form and send it to : Application form Master thesis.

In addition to the form, please send a current excerpt from your transcript of records.

The application deadline for applying to write a Master's thesis in the summer semester 2025 is March 1st, 2025.

Please note that we expect you to have already completed a scientific seminar or a scientific project at one of our chairs. After your application has been accepted, we will negotiate a topic with you.

Topics can come from two sources:

We propose a topic to you before the application deadline (please indicate in your application whether you are interested in one of these topics).
You propose a topic in an exposé of 1 to 2 pages that is related to our research and the Master's courses offered by our chairs.

Possible topics in the summer semester 2025 for the Chair of Operations Management:

Literature Review on Industry 5.0 in Manufacturing Operations
Optimization of EV Charging Stations
Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) for Sustainable Logistics
Literature Review on Quantum-Inspired Metaheuristics for Optimization Problems
Advanced Metaheuristic Method for Decision-Making in a Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling Environment
Literature Review on Metaheuristics in Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling
Simulated Annealing in Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling
Hybrid genetic algorithms for minimizing makespan in dynamic job shop scheduling problems
Flow shop group scheduling with and without group technology assumption
Constraint programming for capacitated scheduling problems in greenhouses
Robust production planning in the case of uncertainty
Consistency requirements in railway crew planning
Optimization for ATM cash replenishment
Fairness aspects in personnel scheduling
Literature review on optimization of food distribution networks for equity and effectiveness
Literature review on urban public transportation network optimization