Master Thesis Research Seminar

What it is about

You engage with central questions around the automobile and mobility industry: supply chains, decision-making under uncertainty, external effects, competitiveness, energy transition, CO2 neutrality, e-mobility, and smart city. In the end you will be able to prepare the research necessary for a master’s thesis and independently work on topics empirically and theoretically.

What you will be able to do

• Prepare research for the master’s thesis
• Apply relevant theoretical concepts
• Use empirical methods to analyze industry-related questions
• Identify and solve management and strategic problems
• Present scientifically

What the module consists of

• SeminarDiscussion and deepening of scientific content; analysis and exercises on industry-specific data; simulations of decision-making processes similar to those of a company
• PresentationPresenting one's own work and discussion in the course
• Schriftliche AusarbeitungAcademic elaboration / Research paper to demonstrate scientific and methodological skills

Teaching method

• Lecture of scientific contentConveying the necessary theory
• In-Class DiscussionsReflection on current developments and challenges of the automotive industry
• Analysis and exercises with industry-specific dataPractice of empirical methods and data interpretation
• Simulation tasks in a company-like environmentTraining in problem recognition and solution in management and strategy issues