Kick-start your career in industry

The manufacturing, transportation and service industries worldwide experience rapid changes due to specialization, globalization, the ICT revolution, demographic developments and an increasing environmental awareness.

As a result, these industries face huge challenges in adapting to these changes.
To do this, they must reshape their logistics systems in order to be able to reap the benefits of emerging opportunities, and to avoid emerging threads.

Logistics tool boxes with sophisticated tools and techniques are available nowadays to develop and build advanced logistics management systems. Eindhoven University of Technology plays an important role in the development of logistics knowledge.

In its School of Industrial Engineering, more than 60 researchers, about halve of them Phd students, work to find innovative solutions for new logistics problems. They closely cooperate with leading industries in fields like retail, process industry, capital goods industry, and transportation and warehousing.

As a trainee of the Logistics Management Systems program you will be trained to use these tools and techniques to design and implement innovative logistics solutions for leading companies in the Industrial Engineering company network, giving your career a kick-start.

 

Logistics Management Systems Design for the future logistics innovation officer!

In the program you will focus on strengthening both your technical and non-technical competencies related to efficient and effective design and implementation of advanced logistics systems. The program’s context is smart logistics and the related societal challenges.

In particular, there is a focus on multidisciplinary design and a project-based result-oriented approach is used. This is reflected in the set-up of the program, and in the selection of trainees in cooperation with the companies where design projects are carried out.

 

Fast track to a higher level

As a trainee of the LMS program you will be actively involved in applying logistics tools and techniques to a much greater extent that would be possible in industry alone. You will address logistics problems from perspectives such as human-performance management, organization and organizational change, ICT, and logistics methods and techniques.

It would take many more years to gain the same experience in industry, if possible at all.

The LMS program is unique: dedicated courses, industrial assignments and design mentors who are actively involved in design projects in leading companies. As a technological designer trainee you will receive a salary.

After successfully completing our program, you will be granted the degree of ‘Professional Doctorate in Engineering’ (PDEng).

 

At the university: courses and design assignments

From the start of your appointment as a trainee, you are supervised by a design mentor, one of our professors who are highly experienced designers and are involved in the industry projects as coaches. They will show you how to turn academic knowledge into innovative industrial solutions.

You will be trained in applying scientific knowledge, tools and techniques in real life company environment.

You will be working on design assignments, small real problems that are assigned to us by our industrial partners.

In industry; the design project

You will spend the last ten months in industry working on a challenging logistics design project, a real problem that needs to be solved. In this project you will integrate knowledge from a number of disciplines. You will be supervised by a mentor from industry as well as your university design mentor.

 

Application

You are eligible to apply for the program if you have graduated from a Master program in Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics or closely related areas.

All courses in the program are taught in English. The Logistics Management Systems program is hosted by the School of Industrial Engineering.

 

 

 

The Eindhoven region located in the southeast of The Netherlands is internationally recognized as a center for advanced technology and is characterized by knowledge and creativity. Eindhoven holds a strategic position as one of Western Europe’s leading technology centers. Many global companies have established research, development and production facilities near Eindhoven.

Eindhoven is a modern city with extensive cultural and sports facilities, good restaurants and lots of pubs. But is also has much to offer for people with a technological focus. Eindhoven can be reached easyli by public transport, has its own international airport and has an excellent train connection direct into the departure hall of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. You can find more information about Eindhoven at www.eindhoven.eu

Information on application procedure

Information on Information day SAI and on SAI website