The program confers both master degrees and PhD degrees.

Research areas, content and supervisors

Goals:

1. Master students: should develop into high-level application-oriented talents in logistics and operations management. Basic requirements are as following:

Solid basic foundation in theories of logistics and operations management, systematic professional knowledge.

Capable of teaching and researching in the professional field, and independently carrying on specified research projects.

Attentive to building up skills in innovation, leadership, teamwork, analyzing and summarizing, and be able to satisfy various demands by enterprises or research institutes after graduation.

2. PhD students: should develop into leading research-oriented scholars in the field of logistics and operations management. basic requirements are as following:

Solid basic foundation in theories of logistics and operations management, systematic and deep professional knowledge.

Capable of teaching and researching in the professional field, and independently directing and carrying on specified innovative research projects.

Attentive to building up skills in innovation, leadership, teamwork, analyzing and summarizing, and be able to satisfy various demands by enterprises or research institutes after graduation.

Courses, credits:

1. Master students: 34 credits in total.

2. PhD students: 22 credits in total.

Basic requirements for required study sessions:

1. Master students:

To assist in teaching basic courses to undergraduates.

To command abilities of composing articles based on research results and offering oral reports. Able to summarize and analyze documents, and present oral reports in this regard.

To command abilities of processing data, words and graphs and searching information via computers.

Academic lectures: no less than 15 times that students should attend the academic reports annually by scholars and experts from home and abroad. File-and-document reports: students should report the latest progress in research fields, present a written version of report summaries, and attend to the similar reports by other students. Academic reports on university’s ceremonious events: students are highly recommended to take part in such events. Academic conferences home and abroad: students should be teamed up to attend academic conference both home and abroad, in which they are encouraged to present reports. Assessments and basic demands: each of students should attend academic reports for at least 8 times every year, and file-and-document reports for at least twice every year.

2. PhD students:

To assist supervisors in directing undergraduates and master students in research projects or to compose their degree dissertations.

To command abilities of composing articles based on research results and offering oral reports. Able to summarize and analyze documents, and present oral reports in this regard.

To command abilities of processing data, words and graphs and searching information via computers, and command more than one data analysis software and relevant programming skills when in theoretical research work.

Academic lectures: no less than 15 times that students should attend the academic reports annually by scholars and experts from home and abroad. File-and-document reports: students should report the latest progress in research fields, present a written version of report summaries, and attend to the similar reports by other students. Academic reports on university’s ceremonious events: students are highly recommended to take part in such events. Academic conferences home and abroad: students should be teamed up to attend academic conference both home and abroad, in which they have to present reports. Assessments and basic demands: each of students should attend academic reports for at least 8 times every year, and file-and-document reports for at least twice every year.

Basic exam requirements for PhD students:

An oral exam is conducted to evaluate the students’ command of disciplinary knowledge, and it will be held around mid-term of PhD study.

Basic requirements for degree dissertations:

1. Master-degree dissertations:

• The authors should command fairly thorough understanding of academic development in selected fields, and the selected topics should directly point to real-world effects.
• The dissertations should reflect authors’ solid knowledge foundation in logistics and operations management, as well as systematic knowledge in interested projects.
• The dissertations should prove that authors have unique academic achievements compared with others.
• The dissertations should point to new and meaningful purposes in conclusions, and the research methods involved should be scientifically sound, with certain levels of innovation.
• The dissertations can stand on evident, reliable sources, and are logically structured.

2. PhD-degree dissertations:

• The authors should command fairly thorough understanding of academic development in selected fields, and the selected topics should directly point to real-world effects.
• The dissertations should reflect authors’ solid knowledge foundation in logistics and operations management, as well as systematic knowledge in interested projects and their development.
• The dissertations should point to innovative conclusions.
• The research methods involved should be scientifically sound, with certain innovative features.
• The dissertations are clearly stated in topics, can stand on evident and reliable sources, and are logically structured.
• The dissertations clearly state the sources of documents they’ve quoted.

Basic requirements for scientific research qualifications:

1. Master students:

To closely follow the developments in own research field, be familiar with articles related with own research projects. To fluently read articles in foreign languages (normally English), and be able to compose papers in English on a preliminary basis. To command certain abilities to discover problems, analyze problems via modeling, and use basic research methods and software tools commonly seen in the research field. To process data, words and graphs via computers.

2. PhD students:

To fully comprehend the development in own research field, raise innovative projects, and understand the relevant documents with own research projects.

To fluently read documents in foreign languages (normally English), and be able to write articles and offer brief oral reports in the foreign language. To independently raise research ideas and ways in discovering, analyzing and summarizing issues, to command basic research methods and software tools commonly used in the research field.

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